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Watch the Audi activesphere transform into a pick-up truck

Also witness the steering wheel unfurl itself from the floor...

Published: 31 Jan 2023

Last week Audi pulled the covers off its new activesphere concept, a luxury coupe-crossover that also dabbles in being a pick-up truck, an off-roading chariot and an autonomous chaperone. A Jack of many trades, then.

Now it's quite something to render drawings of a machine that ticks all those boxes, but something else entirely to actually see those things in action.

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And lo we therefore draw your attention to the video above, which gives you a whistle-stop tour of all the activesphere's headline-grabbing features. Made possible by a well-placed rotisserie plinth, of course.

The key features include the teeth-like nodes in the floor which signify that off-road mode and the car's raised ride height have been engaged, plus that motorised bulkhead which isolates the pick-up bed from the cabin.

There's a ski rack on the roof too, but TG forgot to take skis along on the day to test this out. Soz.

Then you've got the doors (hinged on the A- and C-pillars for maximum impressiveness), and when you're done letting the computer do the driving, the steering wheel and pedals fold out of the floor. Which - now we think about it - is an incredible security feature...

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Goes without saying that it's unlikely any of this will make production any time soon. If at all. But if you had to pick one, which feature are you having?

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