The Audi Activesphere concept offers up the SUV of tomorrow, a sleek luxury coupé that can dress down and transform into a pick-up truck
This new model was designed and built at Audi’s Design Studio in Malibu, and in both scale and capability it distils the experience of America’s roads of tomorrow. It was recently noted that trucks have become almost the de facto automobile of choice for Americans, far, far removed from their utilitarian, agricultural beginnings.
, this is a mixed-reality venture that uses headsets to overlay information on the passengers’ surroundings.In common with the earlier ‘spheres,’ the emphasis is very much on luxury, autonomy and flexibility. The jacked-up bodywork, sitting atop huge 22-inch wheels, is sleek and sporty, a deliberate visual contradiction that is finding increasing favour amongst designers looking for a new expression of the hackneyed ‘Sports Utility Vehicle’ body style.
Audi Dimension proposes that physical control surfaces and buttons are largely banished, with virtual overlays appearing when a passenger or driver looks in the right place – for example, the air-conditioning controls appear to hover above the dashboard vents, while traffic and topography information is overlaid on the world outside.
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