Audi rolls out updated hybrid e-tron Spyder at CES

It’s looking rather more polished since it first appeared the Paris Auto Show earlier this year, having been given a lovely coat of red paint (embarrassingly almost exactly the same hue as the Tesla Model S that’s here ) but keeping the some gorgeous, turbine-styled wheels. It’s the Audi e-tron Spyder, a hybrid with a twin-turbo V6 and dual electric motors as well capable of 0 – 60 times of 4.7 seconds, and we thought you might want to see. Still no price or availability, though. Audi Chairman Rupert Stadler also took the time to show off the company’s latest MMI system, with its character-recognizing touchpad, and also spoke a little bit about the future — vaguely, anyway. He refuted our thoughts on the car of the future, replacing the dash with a mobile device, saying that those devices are designed to draw your attention which is, of course, a bad thing while you’re driving. However, we can’t help but think that there are ways to eliminate that problem with the right software layer. Anyway, we’ll be speaking with Stadler a little later today and will be picking his brain a little bit more about this and other topics of the future. Gallery: Audi e-tron Spyder Audi rolls out updated hybrid e-tron Spyder at CES originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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