URBANSPHERE SUGGESTS AN UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH
Audi’s 2019 AI:ME concept followed many of the same principles as the Urbansphere but showed that many of the same goals and functions could be achieved with a much more tightly packaged and familiar proposition.
But that was three years ago now, and Audi has since remained quiet on any plans for an Meb-based city car.
All of its EV concepts since have used the more premium PPE architecture and placed an overt focus on dynamism, interior space or luxury, which prompts the question: how would an electric small hatch fit into Audi’s future line-up?
It’s strange that Audi’s smallest and largest concepts in recent memory should be targeted so closely at the same segments, but perhaps it’s a reflection of a somewhat uncomfortable truth: bigger cars make for more flexible interiors and therefore better urban propositions in the future of autonomous vehicles.