Audi is set to revive the A2 name for its new distinctively styled entry-level model, senior sources at the company have revealed.

 

Due to be unveiled before the end of the year, the new model is seen as an indirect modern-day successor to the early-noughties original.

 

It will feature – as test mules have shown – a one-box exterior design with a short bonnet and split-window tailgate highly reminiscent of that car, albeit in a package that is more overtly a crossover.