Audi RSQ

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The Audi RSQ concept vehicle series include:

Audi RSQ (2004)

Audi RSQ
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Overview
Manufacturer Audi AG
Production2004
Designer Julian Hönig (Senior Exterior Designer at Audi AG) [1]
Body and chassis
Class concept car
film product placement
Body style 2-door coupé
Layout mid engine, all wheel drive
Platform Fibreglass construction over aluminium space frame
Doors Reverse butterfly doors
Related Audi Le Mans quattro
Audi TT
Lamborghini Gallardo
Powertrain
Engine 5.0 L twin-turbocharged FSI V10
Transmission 6-speed manual
Rear view Audi RSQ 4.JPG
Rear view

The Audi RSQ is a mid-engined concept car developed by Audi AG for use as a product placement in the 2004 sci-fi film I, Robot . [2] It is meant to depict a technologically advanced automobile in the Chicago cityscape from the year 2035.

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This sports coupé is a visionary interpretation of Audi's typical automobile design. An important challenge presented to the designers was that in order for the car to have successful advertising for Audi as product placement, despite its extreme character, the car still had to be recognised by those audience members familiar with car designs as an Audi. To accommodate this demand, the engineers implemented a current Audi front-end design which includes the trapezoidal "Audi Single-Frame Grille," the company's trademark overlapping four rings, and the Multi Media Interface (MMI) driver-to-car control system. [1] The RSQ also includes special features suggested by film director Alex Proyas. [3] The car uses spheres instead of conventional wheels. [1] Its two reverse butterfly doors are hinged to the C-posts of the body. [1]

Although this kind of collaboration was a first for Audi, a similar project named the Lexus 2054 was developed by Lexus for use in the 2002 film Minority Report . [4]

Audi RSQ concept car for the I, Robot movie, machined using WorkNC. WorkNC-Audi concept car.jpg
Audi RSQ concept car for the I, Robot movie, machined using WorkNC .

Audi RSQ e-tron (2019)

Audi RSQ e-tron
Overview
Manufacturer Audi
Production2019
Designer Jan Poliak
Body and chassis
Class concept car
film product placement
Body style 2-door coupé
Layout Individual-wheel drive
RelatedAudi RSQ
Powertrain
Electric motor 4 liquid-cooled permanent magnet synchronous electric motors placed at each wheel

The Audi RSQ e-tron is a concept car developed by Audi for use in the 2019 animated film Spies in Disguise . [5] [6]

According to Audi, the car was designed closely with Blue Sky Studios and features a "visionary design language and futuristic highlights including a hologram speedometer". [7]

Marketing

As part of the Audi RSQ e-tron and Spies in Disguise movie launch, a video named 'Lunchbreak' was produced. [8]

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References

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  8. Audi teams up with Twentieth Century Fox on ‘Spies in Disguise’ digital content ahead of film premiere