Audi is unveiling the highly exciting Q6 at this year’s World Cup weekend in Kitzbühel, Austria. The Q6 e-tron offroad concept is a reinterpretation of the quattro.
The Q6 offers a glimpse of a potential vehicle in the progressive off-road segment. Its striking appearance is contributed to by a 160 mm higher ride height and a 250 mm wider track.
The new Audi design increases torque at the wheels by 50 percent. This reduces the vehicle’s top speed to 175 kmph which is sufficient for an off-roader – but enables it to climb slopes up to 45 degrees.
The vehicle features four portal axles that were developed from scratch and integrated into the wheel hub assemblies at the front and rear axles, necessitating partial changes to the suspension links. The portal axles increase the total torque at all wheels (peak 10 seconds) to 13,400 Nm, for a total increase of 4,400 Nm. This is how to experience Vorsprung durch Technik—both on and off the road.
Audi doesn’t say whether its off-roader is based on the regular Q6 E-Tron or the spicy SQ6 E-Tron. In production guise, the hot one features a dual-motor setup and does 0 to 100 mph in 4.3 seconds when using launch control. Flat out, it’ll do an electronically limited 230 kmph. The SQ6 has all-wheel drive and a 94.4-kWh battery pack with enough juice for 607 kilometres in the WLTP cycle.
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