Audi Metroproject Quattro

Audi's latest Metroproject Quattro design study, which debuted this morning at the Tokyo Motor Show, pays homage to Japan's flair for miniaturization and provides clues to the look and packaging of a future Audi sub-compact production car (read A1).

The design study seeks to combine the premium quality, innovation and design progressiveness for which the Audi range is renowned into a vehicle that occupies less than four meters of road space. The concept has also been engineered for efficiency, with a hybrid powertrain. As such, it is able to derive its power solely from its 1.4-liter petrol engine, purely from its electric motor or through a combination of the two; their interplay controlled by the highly intelligent on-board management system.

Inside, there are four individual seats and an innovative Audi mobile hand-held device offering mobile telephony, MP3 and video playback and GPS navigation. The driver is able to input sat-nav destinations and control in-car functions such as heating before even leaving home.

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