Audi Avus quattro
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Avus quattro | |
Presentation year: | 1991 |
Vehicle fair: | Tokyo Motor Show |
Class : | Sports car |
Body shape : | Coupe |
Engine: |
Otto engine : 6.0 liters (374 kW) |
Length: | 4470 mm |
Width: | 2006 mm |
Empty weight: | 1250 kg |
Production model: | none |
The Audi Avus quattro is a design study by the automobile manufacturer Audi . The vehicle was presented at the Tokyo Motor Show in 1991 . The body shape with a NACA air inlet in the roof was designed by the American J Mays , according to another source at the Advanced Design Studio in Munich under the direction of Martin Smith .
technology
The vehicle has an aluminum body on a tubular frame and a mid-engine . The drive was a 12-cylinder W-engine (three four-cylinder banks of cylinders at an angle of 60 ° to each other) with 5 valves per cylinder and a displacement of 6.0 liters, which should produce 374 kW (509 hp) According to the company, the car reached a top speed of 340 km / h and accelerated from 0 to 100 km / h in three seconds. The six-speed gearbox would have been manual and all the wheels would have been driven . A dummy engine made of wood and plastic was built into the exhibit. The vehicle was named after the AVUS race track in Berlin .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.carbodydesign.com/archive/2007/03/01-audi-avus/
- ↑ a b Audi Avus quattro design study ( Memento from December 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on audi.de.
- ↑ Audi Avus quattro ( memento from July 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on 21stcentury.co.uk
- ↑ https://www.motor1.com/news/131081/concept-we-forgot-audi-avus/
- ↑ Audi Avus (1991) on carbodydesign.com