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Audi teases its Q4 E-Tron concept ahead of its Geneva debut

The next step in Audi's electric onslaught will be a small crossover, if these drawings are to be belived.

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Well, based on these sketches, we know that it's a) an Audi and b) packing huge wheels.

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announced on Wednesday that it plans to bring its next concept to wear the E-Tron badge to the Geneva Motor Show in March. Before the model, dubbed Q4, gets its official world debut on March 5, Audi is teasing us with a couple of sketches.

The Q4 -- no relation to the badge you'll find on the back of some modern Maseratis -- will be a small crossover SUV and is meant to herald the coming of a smaller production E-Tron crossover in late 2020 or early 2021.

The brand with the four rings is being typically stingy when it comes to other information on the Q4, and not much else can be inferred from the design sketches, other than that it appears to carry similar design language to the other E-Tron concepts we've seen recently.

While we were truly blown away by the Audi E-Tron GT concept that we saw in Los Angeles in 2018, the Q4 looks like it will bear more resemblance to the slightly disappointing E-Tron SUV that's entering production soon.

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The Q4 E-Tron cuts a sleek profile, sleek enough almost to be a coupe-over.

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Kyle Hyatt Former news and features editor
Kyle Hyatt (he/him/his) hails originally from the Pacific Northwest, but has long called Los Angeles home. He's had a lifelong obsession with cars and motorcycles (both old and new).
Kyle Hyatt
Kyle Hyatt (he/him/his) hails originally from the Pacific Northwest, but has long called Los Angeles home. He's had a lifelong obsession with cars and motorcycles (both old and new).

Article updated on February 13, 2019 at 7:02 PM PST

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