TTQ for 2017

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News on the TTQ

Audi is busying expanding its SUV line-up like never before. And from 2017, we can reveal that the Audi TTQ - the TT Offroad concept made real - will join the 4x4 range.

CAR recently reported how Audi is running out of Q badges, as Fiat’s Alfa Romeo owns the Q2 and Q4 nameplates, disrupting Ingolstadt’s plan to neatly order its soft-roaders from Q1 to Q9 with Teutonic logic.

Hence Audi’s next mid-sized sporting SUV was to be badged Q4, but the spat has encouraged a repositioning to spin off a TT crossover.

Why Audi’s Q4 has become the TTQ
‘We have no choice but to make a virtue out of necessity,’ explains a senior manager from Ingolstadt. ‘By taking the TTQ route, we avoid the confrontation with Fiat, we don’t overcrowd the Q corral, and we add a fresh twist to the TT theme.’

Audi has looked at three different ways of adding wellington boots to its TT sports car range, showing various concept cars over the past 18 months.

The Audi TT Allroad: rejected
The first proposal which received the internal thumbs-down was the TT Allroad shown in Detroit in 2014. Good-looking like almost every recent Audi design, the hatchback/shooting brake hybrid was deemed simply too cramped to be practical.

To read more follow this link:

http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Secret...ad-concept-to-get-nod-for-2017-launch-as-TTQ/