Audi has introduced the first of three futuristic concept cars it created to showcase the technology and design cues it will incorporate into its range in the coming years. Called SkySphere, the first concept is a luxurious electric roadster with a wheelbase that can be modified by the driver and a handful of clever heritage-laced styling cues.
Designed digitally in Malibu, California, the SkySphere stretches about 204 inches long and 78 inches wide, dimensions that make it about an inch shorter and six inches wider than the Horch 853. What’s a Horch? Glad you asked: It’s one of the brands that merged to form Auto Union, which later became Audi, and it stood proud as one of Germany’s most prestigious automakers during the 1930s. It was widely celebrated as Mercedes-Benz’s only true German rival. It’s this spirit and positioning that designers wanted to recapture when they drew the SkySphere.
