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Audi Sport Quattro concept turns the clock forward thirty years in Frankfurt

Conceptual successor to the legendary Sport quattro of the Eighties combines stunning looks with 700PS V8 petrol hybrid power.

- International debut at Frankfurt Motor Show (September 12-22)
- Plug-in hybrid offering 700PS of system power and 800Nm of system torque
- 560PS V8 with cylinder-on-demand technology combined with 110kW electric motor
- 0-62mph in 3.7 seconds, top speed 189mph, 113mpg and 59g/km according to applicable standard
- Extensive use of aluminium and Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (CFRP)
- Advanced new MatrixBeam LED headlights

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Sport quattro - the musclebound short-wheelbase coupe originally conceived for the rally stages - Audi will unveil its conceptual successor at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show. The Audi Sport quattro concept show car continues the grand quattro tradition, with a stunning coupe silhouette and plug-in hybrid drive delivering a system output of 700PS.

quattro is Audi and Audi is quattro - the brand and the technology are indelibly linked. Since the debut of the "Ur-quattro" in 1980, Audi has sold more than five million cars with permanent all-wheel drive, far more than any other premium manufacturer worldwide. The advantages in terms of grip, control and composure delivered by the quattro system have now been reaped by drivers, initially in rallying and then on the road, for over three decades.

With the Audi Sport quattro concept show car, Audi is taking this grand tradition and projecting it into the future with the help of ideas that were first seen in the Audi quattro concept study of 2010. The DNA of the Ur-quattro is immediately evident in the powerful road stance of the Sport quattro concept.

Its taut, sinewy body squats purposefully on 21-inch centre-locking wheels with a five twin-spoke design, and its low-slung, foursquare look is largely attributable to an overall length of 4,602 millimetres, a generous width of 1,964 millimetres and a height of just 1,386 millimetres, underpinned by a wheelbase of 2,784 millimetres.