The new Audi Q2 doesn’t arrive in showrooms until the end of the year, but Audi is already planning to up the excitement level on 2016’s must-have SUV.
An SQ2 model is likely to use the four-cylinder 2.0-litre turbo from the Audi S3 – with 296bhp and quattro four-wheel drive. It would slot into the maker’s growing SQ range of hot SUVs alongside the SQ5 and new SQ7.
“It is something we’re looking at,” admitted Stephan Knirsch, Audi’s Board member for Technical Development. “It would be relatively easy to do with MQB. The Q2 shares a lot with the A3, but we have to see what appetite there is for the more expensive Q2 models first.”
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