King among the Audi SUVs
Audi may be working on a Q9, a large top-segment SUV with which it will logically attack the BMW X7 and the Mercedes-Benz GLS.
Although Audi already has one hell of an SUV on offer with the Q7 and a considerable horsepower booster with the SQ7, things can of course always be even crazier. Just look at the BMW X7 and the Mercedes-Benz GLS. They have not yet received a direct response from Ingolstadt, but that may change. In conversation with the Australian CarSales Audi’s local director hints that something will happen above the Q7 (and Q8) sometime in the next two years.
It is currently unclear exactly how Audi envisions the ‘Q9’. So the question remains whether it will be a fuel model at all or a fully electric SUV (called Q10 according to Audi’s new nomenclature). In the second case, the brand is of course not targeting the aforementioned X7 and GLS, but, for example, the Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV. Porsche also has a large electric SUV in the pipeline above the Macan, so perhaps it is a cousin of that. By the way, there is already an Audi SUV next to which the Q7 pales in size, namely the Audi Q6 available in China.
Pictured: the Chinese Audi Q6, a 5.10 meter long SUV that shares its base with the Volkswagen Teramont.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl