Is THIS The Car Audi Has To Make To Continue Its Stream Of Success? What Happened To The Quattro Concept? Is It DEAD or ALIVE?

If you take a good look at the current-generation A5 and S5 coupe, you have to tilt your head and wonder: just how will Audi be able to succeed that design? It's a very strong one that has kept people's attention since the vehicle's debut AND it's timeless.

10 years down the road, the A5/S5 will still look good. You can't say that about every auto design.

But if you were to ask us exactly how Audi should follow this fantastic design up, we'd have an answer. It debuted at the Paris Motor Show years ago and caused quite a stir due to its historic nameplate: the Quattro Concept.

The problem is simple: the concept hasn't be spotted.

That is until now. Finally we've seen it yet again on the cover of a magazine — Auto Zeitung — via a user submission. And while I don't understand German, it appears that the cover is saying we'll be seeing it make a sensational debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA).

What makes it interesting is that it doesn't seem that it would be slated as an A5/S5 replacement but as something above that. How do I know? Well, it forecasts around 650 horsepower. Obviously, a substantial figure.

What say you, Spies? Is THIS the car Audi has to build to up the ante?


2010 Paris Motor Show Photo Gallery












2010 Paris Motor Show Photo Gallery