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what's up guys this is antoine guha cnet com we're on the floor of the 2013 frankfurt motor show taking a look at two very different audi quattro concepts the first behind me of the sport quattro which celebrates 30 years of the quattro name which belong to a historic rally car as opposed to a bare-bones four-wheel-drive rally car we've got very sophisticated all-wheel drive gas-electric hybrid now you can get about 31 miles of electric only rains from its 110 kilowatt electric engine or if you really put your foot down you can take advantage of a full system total of 700 horsepower and 590 pound-feet of torque by getting that twin-turbocharged v8 engine into the mix the v8 engine also has variable displacement technology so it can also drop down to just four cylinders when you don't need all of the power for cruising about and all of that is going to be up underneath a very kind of cool-looking design it's got some very muscular shoulders really big thick pillars in the back that are meant to evoke the original earth Quattro and inside we've got a lot of technology including a head-up display and the full LED instrument cluster of course Audi's full array of dashboard technology that we've seen their current line of vehicles now let's take a look at the other audi quattro concept the nut quattro now we're the sport quattro that we just looked at is very German this Luna Quattro is very Italian it's actually designed by the italian company that designed the a child is on parkour that we saw at geneva earlier this year it's actually got some very flowing curves a lot of hints in here what I think the next all rates going to start looking like particularly in this sort of headlight and in the smaller sort of side blades that you get on the side now not under the hood because this is a mid aged and vehicle but sitting over the rear wheels you'll find a v10 TDI engine that's going to output well over 700 horsepower and well over 500 pound feet of torque so it's actually designed to be as on road as it is off road and as fast in both conditions so you've got the Quattro all-wheel drive system putting power down to all four corners you've got an active air suspension that's actually going to allow you to raise and lower the vehicle by about an inch and a half from the static ride height and that's actually tied to the GPS system so if you're on the highway it'll sit lower but if you turn off onto a gravel road it'll raise itself automatically you don't have to do anything there now all that power and torque is going to flow to the wheels by way of a 7-speed automatic that s tronic DSG transmission now both of the concepts that we looked at our two seater coops this one's a little bit more crazy you've got things like the vertically hinged doors the audi sport concept actually only have the regular doors or whatever but there's two very different ways of looking at where out he's going to take their quattro technology in the future something we're going to be seeing like hints of the sport quattro in the next s5 and maybe hints of this new nut quattro in the next out er eight of course without the variable suspension I've been antuan goodwin on the floor at the 2013 frankfurt motor show taking a look at two very different audi sport quattro concepts