Audi Is Preparing An Electric SUV To Beat The Defender And G-Class, Says Report | Carscoops carscoops
A new report says that Audi is going to launch an all-electric 4×4 SUV meant to rival the Land Rover Defender and the
. The boxy SUV would ride on the same ladder platform destined for the upcoming revival of the Scout brand., the top brass at Audi is close to greenlighting the plan outlined above and it’s completely separate from the Activesphere concept. Audi’s head of design Marc Lichte says that the new SUV wouldn’t ride on the PPE platform used betweenand Audi nor would it leverage the Ford Ranger chassis set to end up incorporated in a future VW SUV.
The vehicle could be on track for production by 2027, which removes the possibility that it would use the upcoming SSP platform. That leaves the Scout EVs ladder chassis, which makes a lot of sense for a car of this nature and intention as the Scout is already set to be an off-road-focused SUV.And as Autocar points out, VW is rumored to be considering Magna, a Canadian components company for the contract to build Scout vehicles.
Why jump into this segment where Land Rover and Mercedes have dominated for so long? Lichte had an answer for that.
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