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Audi engineers have been spotted testing a current-generation A8 with a curious six-door conversion.
The photo gallery of this article features more pictures of the first prototype of an A8 with six doors. The car was spotted while parked in Sweden, and the vehicle featured no elements to camouflage its design.
While the prototype in the images does have license plates that would link it to Audi’s hometown, we believe the vehicle might be the work of a custom coach builder. However, few coachbuilders go to such lengths to test their prototypes (pun intended), while a carmaker such as Audi would test the heavily modified variant of its cars in any surroundings.
A quick look at the model reveals an extra door between the driver’s door and the driver’s side rear door. This one in the middle is shorter than the standard door and leads to another row of seats. The extra seating is forward facing if we take a look at the headrests that we can see through the cars' windows. Because of the way the center door looks, we think that access to that row of seats would be difficult, but we can presume that it is just an optical illusion given the vehicle’s significant size.
The rear doors of the car are longer than those of the extended wheelbase versions of the standard Audi A8. Naturally, they hide a row of individual seats. Given the size of the door, the passengers in the last row get more space than the occupants of the center row. The front end of the car does not seem to be modified in any way, while the profile of the A8 is dramatically changed by the extension of the wheelbase.
We expect this prototype to be around six meters (236 in) long, while the cost of such a car would probably go as high as two entry-level A8s put together.
While the prototype in the images does have license plates that would link it to Audi’s hometown, we believe the vehicle might be the work of a custom coach builder. However, few coachbuilders go to such lengths to test their prototypes (pun intended), while a carmaker such as Audi would test the heavily modified variant of its cars in any surroundings.
A quick look at the model reveals an extra door between the driver’s door and the driver’s side rear door. This one in the middle is shorter than the standard door and leads to another row of seats. The extra seating is forward facing if we take a look at the headrests that we can see through the cars' windows. Because of the way the center door looks, we think that access to that row of seats would be difficult, but we can presume that it is just an optical illusion given the vehicle’s significant size.
The rear doors of the car are longer than those of the extended wheelbase versions of the standard Audi A8. Naturally, they hide a row of individual seats. Given the size of the door, the passengers in the last row get more space than the occupants of the center row. The front end of the car does not seem to be modified in any way, while the profile of the A8 is dramatically changed by the extension of the wheelbase.
We expect this prototype to be around six meters (236 in) long, while the cost of such a car would probably go as high as two entry-level A8s put together.
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