Audi sets sights on BMW X6

Oh dear....

One question.....why? If you want a coupe, buy a proper coupe. If you want a chelsea tractor, buy one. Utterly pointless and I'm lost for words for how ugly this and the X6 are - vomit inducing!

By everton2004 on 31 March, 2011, 6:27am

Auto(SUN)express wild speculation photo shop alert!

By hampson10 on 31 March, 2011, 9:00am

Another Audi ...

... and another pointless niche created and filled.

Yawn.

It would better if they (along with the rest of the VAG Group) concentrated on producing for the UK, rather than starving us of, the models that people are trying to order but having to wait an eternity for because they have more profitable markets. I can't really blame them for that per se, but they should also remember the job that the UK has done for Audi over the past 10 years too.

Our customers are being offered, and buying, Alfa Giulietta's instead of Golfs and A3's, and C Class/E Class and 3/5 Series instead of A4's and A6's.

If only the UK public knew how they are manipulating the supply to the market at the moment they would think twice about buying anything from them.

By Chizzy57 on 31 March, 2011, 9:38am

Ugliest Audi yet!

I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but this is the Ugliest Audi yet! What a pointless shape!

By denjar on 31 March, 2011, 9:44am

Ugliest Audi yet!

I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but this is the Ugliest Audi yet! What a pointless shape!

By denjar on 31 March, 2011, 9:44am

Calm down.

This is not an Audi. It is yet another A.E figment of imagination photoshopped.

By Tazfan2 on 31 March, 2011, 12:15pm

Even uglier than the Q7 ????

I did not think Audi could create a more UGLY vehicle than the Q7!!

Well done Audi - you succeeded.

By Bloodyannoying on 31 March, 2011, 12:23pm

Oh...

From the side it reminds me of a Mondeo on stilts. As for the grille, it's a bit coffin-shaped. Order in black for the ultimate all-terrain luxury funeral limo, then?

By nhunt2 on 31 March, 2011, 12:57pm

Ugliest Audi yet? No: it's the ugliest Audi yet.

Seriously ugly. Some of Audi's Vorsprung needs to come from Esthetik. Selling on Technik alone must surely be wearing thin. The three-quarter front view makes me think that Audi have given the job of Head of Design to Robert Crumb. (That could really be interesting.)

By ThatOne on 31 March, 2011, 2:26pm

Does my bum look big in this?

You got to laugh. Stop it Audi... You're killing me.

By craiglife on 31 March, 2011, 2:31pm

Yeah but... no but...

Tazfan2: Wise point, but AE's forecast pictures of new VAG models are very close to the real thing.

By ThatOne on 31 March, 2011, 9:35pm

i'll wait..till

@ tazfan2... yes your right its not the real photos of the up coming Q6...its renderings from AE...so i;ll wait to see the real pics before i comment...

By autounionDI on 31 March, 2011, 9:36pm

Oh Autoexpress...

what are u doing? i am sure u can do much better than that.
that´s a Q7 that had sex with the new A3 sedan concept,
a horrible rendering!!

By catchmyshadow on 1 April, 2011, 12:52am

WHEN WILL YOU GUYS UNDERSTAND???

Car makers are not non profitable organisations. They exhist to keep people in their jobs, to produce what the consumers want and last but not least to make as much money as they CAN!!! It's like our clothes, when we go to pub, they are not as comfortable as they used to be 30 years ago, but they are much more pretty at the eye. (clothes, shoes, and lots of things). People buy these cars because they want to bee seen. These dont buy ford mondeos like u or me. So stop saying ugly for a car if u cant afford one !!!

By klajd323 on 1 April, 2011, 11:08am

The X6 has grown on me over time. Yes its pointless but so is almost every car if you think about it (we could all just drive Dacia Logans and get from A-B no problem...). This looks like a tank from the front but so does the X6. OK its an artistss impression but I imagine its's quite a good prediction for how the car could look if Audi do something like this. Back view looks nice IMO- sleeker than X6.

By uncle_paulie on 1 April, 2011, 10:30pm

Umm, AE where did the X6 "blaze a trail"?? Made 110,000 [in the States at the plant for the X5??] and 109,000 sold in the same land of no taste? Oh, sorry, and some to the Chinese. The X6 came from wherever they make the X5, then went to the worst 'chop-shop' in America and came out beaten to death with the UGLY STICK, as the X6. [Just might be wrong on which UGLY factory the X6 comes from tho].
PLEASE PLEASE AUDI, dont unnecessarily inflict this on the world. You have NO reason at all to be up the bum of BMW, slavishly following them. I've had a complete gutsfull of companies not only filling niches, but then going about making them. The person that thinks car makers produce what we want is seriously deluded. They are driven by the FAG Syndrome [Fear And Greed!!], first, middle, and last. BMW personifies that modus operandi. Where I live there is a big Muslim population with some attraction to big AWD 'bulldozers. I have the misfortune to see regularly 2 X6's. One poor owner got the 'appliance jobbie'......in white. They forgot to paint it as it left the factory. The other is black, and as ugly, and totally irrelevant.
Audi have the Q7, the Q5, the Q3, then s/wagons [Avantes] so why this??

By barina47 on 4 April, 2011, 1:52am

Oh God not another one

Oh dear....
As if one super ugly SUV/Coupe on the market wasn't bad enough, now we're gonna have to look at another one.

Please, Audi, spare my eyes

By Anomalee on 6 April, 2011, 12:20am

Please don't do it!

The Q7 is bad enough, but this is a step too far. Leave this niche to BMW.

By erly5 on 9 April, 2011, 8:30pm