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Is Audi's photocopier set to 80 per cent? Just as from the Q7 did come the Q5, so from the Q5 comes... the Q3, a dinky Audi crossover set to arrive in 2011.
OK, it won't look quite like the car in the photos. That's Audi's ‘Cross Coupe Quattro' concept from 2007, which previewed the styling of an upcoming mini-SUV. And now Audi has confirmed that production of the Q3 will begin in 2011 at the Seat factory in Martorell, Spain.
Smooth off a few of the concept's surfaces, cut down the wheels by a couple of sizes and ditch the glitzy white interior, and you should be pretty close to the production Q3.
If you're struggling to place it in the market, don't worry, it took us a while to figure out too. It'll sit a size below the BMW X3 - which is a rival for the Q5 - and will be based on a modified Tiguan platform. That means it could be a competitor for that weird BMW X1 concept we saw last year, if it makes production.
Audi describes the Q3 as ‘a coupe-like five-door SUV... which will stand out thanks to a supremely sporting driving experience'.
So, assuming it looks at least vaguely like the concept, are you excited about the upcoming Q3? A decent-looking premium crossover, or a niche too far?
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StigsIrishCousn commented on this article
at 02:39 pm on 23 April 2009
Is it really going to be a "decent looking premium crossover" or just a smaller uglier version of a BMW X6? It might appeal to those downsizing from a Q7 or maybe they could be garagemates for a family of people who like large, vulgar cars: Q7 for Daddy Q5 for yummy mummy and Q3 for upstart designer clothes clad offspring?
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Ben27 commented on this article
at 05:10 pm on 23 April 2009
Do we need this? Where's the next Quattro, and I mean the proper one, not the stupid Q7 and Q5
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Puma16 commented on this article
at 05:22 pm on 23 April 2009
Is Audi deliberately feeding its "cock" image by making obscene cars like the stupidly oversized overblinged Q7 and its miniaturised brothers? Chelsea tractor driving yummy mummies, cocks and upstart offspring should not be encouraged, Audi! Now go make proper cars again. *tuts*
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heinz commented on this article
at 05:57 pm on 23 April 2009
The meaning of 'premium crossover' is 'ugly tractor made for cocks'. Decent looking it won't be. Come on Audi, once there was the S2 and now there's the A3 convertible which looks like a hat just like the BMW 1-series; once there was the Quattro and now there is a bunch of poof-looking crossovers just like Ssangyong is capable to make. Where's the Vorsprung and the Technik in crap cars like those?
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120Y commented on this article
at 06:52 pm on 23 April 2009
the audi concept looks a lot like aston's lagonda
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