A little less than a year ago, the so-called Audi Q9 surprised our photographers on the snowy roads of northern Sweden, bordering the Arctic Circle. The same scenario of these spy photos of the model, increasingly uncovered and with features typical of models for China.
It is known as Audi Q9 by its immense proportions, but increasingly points to a specific model for the China market and that, therefore, it is not the flagship of the SUVs that the German brand has on its agenda for Europe and the United States.
these new spy photos show an increasingly uncovered prototype, on the same snowy roads in northern Sweden where almost a year ago appeared for the first time, posing before our special envoys to the area. The new images reveal clues that point in this direction, with a specific design line for Asian models and recently launched with the new Audi Q5 e-tron. One of the signs is that it is precisely this electric model from Audi that accompanies it on the test route.
Audi’s new SUV tips the scales more towards the Q7 L
The evidence is also manifested in the design of the front. The slanted headlights are now more clearly visible, as well as the appendage that runs vertically at the ends of the bumper. As in the electric model, and flanking the large Singleframe grille with a network of large holes that will be finished in black. Although the radiator grille shows the typical octagonal design, its edges are not as marked as in other SUVs of the brand with the four rings, which suggests an integration similar to that of the new electric SUV.
With the dimensions and a side based on the Volkswagen Teramont equivalent -copy up to squareness of the front wheel arches– The rear light clusters will also be different from those known on European models. A model that has been developed more in the Old Continent than in Asia, but that will offer the qualities that Chinese customers like so much: a large interior space with up to three rows of seats and seven seatscombined with the most advanced technology.
The combination of these signs make the balance fall more on the side of the Audi Q7L, as the firm usually calls the longest models destined for the Asian giant. Audi is completely silent, as are its Chinese partners in SAIC Motors who will be the ones to make it if it materializes, a plant whose assembly lines are designed for models based on the MQB platform Volkswagen, so it will share the engines of the Atlas. In view of the state of development in which it is, its presentation is a matter of months, with the Beijing Motor Show being the most appropriate event for its debut.