Audi Sport quattro concept

Audi presents the prototype 30 years after he launched the Audi Sport quattro, a vehicle intended to participate in the World Rally Championship. Is driven by an electric motor and gas in total give a maximum power of 700 horsepower. Traction is on four wheels.

The combustion engine is a four-liter V8 supercharged engine that has 560 hp. Could be the same bearing, for example, the Audi RS7 Sportback. The electric motor is 150 hp and is located between the engine and transmission. Though Audi does not give more details, this provision could be very similar to that used, for example, the Audi A3 e-tron. The battery is a lithium ion capacity of 14.1 kWh, and is located in the rear of the cabin. It can be recharged by plugging into a power outlet.

The Audi Sport quattro concept can travel up to 50 kilometers driven solely by the electric motor. In sport mode operation "boost" the electric motor serves to support the fuel to give maximum acceleration, working in this way is when this prototype can accelerate from standstill to 100 km in 3.7 seconds and reach a top speed maximum of 305 kilometers per hour. As can travel alone using the electric motor, fuel consumption in the test cycle is very low: 2.5 liters per hundred kilometers.

The electronic management allows energy to the most convenient way possible depending on the circumstances. For example, to book part of the battery so that the driver can activate a fully electric drive mode at the time you want. It also takes into account the mapping information stored in the browser to work the engines as convenient as possible at all times.

 It measures 4.60 meters long, 1.96 meters wide and 1.39 meters high. Its wheelbase is 2.78 meters. That is, is somewhat shorter, wider and lower than an Audi A5 Sportback. Wheelbase is also slightly smaller than the A5. The tires, single nut, are 20 inches in diameter and the tires have measures 285/30 R21.

This prototype has some design cues of Audi quattro models of the eighties and also technological solutions that will future production models. For example, the headlights are ledes with a technology that manufacturer calls "LED matrix" and that is that the group of diodes that are in each lamp can turn on and off to vary the characteristics of the light beam (aiming , for example, as not to dazzle or vary the intensity and length of the light beam). These headlights will have them next Audi A8 (information).

There are some details that are constructed of reinforced plastic with carbon fiber, like the spoiler that is under the front bumper or the aerodynamic diffuser is in the back of the body, at the height of the exhaust outlets, also belong to this materials the roof, hood and tailgate. Other body parts are aluminum, as the doors and bumpers.

The interior has some peculiarity, as the structure of the dashboard is carbon fiber in order to reduce weight and the wheel (image) 'is a foretaste of future design used Audi production sports. "There is an information system projected on the windshield, while the instrumentation, which is a screen-can present information in various forms. The air conditioning controls are located right in the vents that are in the middle of the dashboard.