According to interior designer Ulrich Beierlein they started the design of the Crosslane from the single frame and tried to communicate that in the styling of the cabin.
The angling of the controls towards the driver, and the relatively spare and dynamic sculpting of the dash, centre console and door trims is also intended to heighten the sporty ambience, as is an appealingly chunky gearlever. The result of Audi's first foray into collaborative interior-exterior automotive design was the Crosslane Coupe concept which features a single piece, space frame chassis. This is an approach that will be taken with sportier Q models, he says, while the less sporty Qs will retain the central display screen. Inside, the Crosslane continues Audi’s new theme of reducing the bulk of the car’s dashboard, and effect heightened by the surprising absence of an infotainment screen, whose information appears in the main instrument cluster, says interior designer Ulrich Beierlein, which can be reconfigured using buttons on the steering wheel. The Audi TT and original Quattro were also influences. ‘I want the Land Rover guys to come and see this,’ says Lewis, although you get the impression that Audi wishes it had beaten the British firm to the jump with a three-door SUV. Inspiration for the Cross Lane partly came from the much-admired Steppenwolf produced as an A3 preview some years ago, this dramatically styled concept predating Land Rover’s three-door Evoque concept by several years. It’s also the start of a mission to make it easier to distinguish one Audi from another, says Lewis. It also forms part a more sculptural Audi grille on this concept, a look that together with a bolder looking headlights, will signal the look of the sportier Q models. The spaceframe is part-exposed on the Crosslane, appearing around the windscreen, in the sill area and as a central spar dividing the cockpit. The kind of SUV on the market today would not have suited us. We had to create a product that was totally new for Audi, and bring the normally rather crude design of an SUV into harmony with Audis formal idiom. The executive, Ulrich Hackenberg, 65, a member of the Audi management board responsible for technical development, was one of eight executives suspended after Volkswagen admitted in September to. New 2021 Audi Q2: crossover to get design revamp Audi Q7 design project manager is Canadian Dany Garand, who recalls: The Audi Q7 design process was a special challenge for our team.Updated Audi Q2 revealed with subtle new look and added kit.
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