Audi Urbansphere the minivan brought up to date by this concept car:

Audi Urbansphere – For once, Audi is rushing into the premium minivan segment. A very popular category in China, where this study should have been revealed if the pandemic had not struck, once again. If one-box vehicles have almost deserted the European market for ten years, they are still successful on the other side of the world. And more particularly in Asia where the American brand Buick has successfully sold a certain GL8 for more than 20 years. This ultra-luxurious van, more than 5 meters long, has become the darling of palace fleets, just like business leaders who have made it their rolling office, to the detriment of Mercedes Class S type limousines, much less habitable. 

In 2020, Volkswagen resolved to replicate it by launching the Viloran, 50 cm longer than our good old Sharan which already extends over 4.85 m. And this thirst for a 5-star shuttle seems to be only the beginning within the German group which today unveils a study badged Audi culminating at 5.51 m. It was necessary that to embark… only four passengers. An approach justified by the participation, for the first time, of potential Chinese customers in the development process of the Urbansphere, paradoxically very far from the concerns of optimizing space in urban areas. The last of the siblings After Skysphere, a GT cabriolet presented last summer, and Grandsphere, a four-seater limousine seen at the Munich Motor Show in September 2021, Audi is closing its chapter praising the premium mobility of the future with this minivan offering level 4 autonomous driving. the perspective of using only drivers working part-time? Because there are no small savings, even for the bosses of the CAC comfortably installed in the sumptuous bucket seats reclining at 60°, with legrests and privacy screens mounted behind the headrests to isolate themselves of the side passenger. Useless equipment... Both will however be able to take part in a videoconference together or watch a film on the giant transparent OLED screen sliding from the roof to the back of the front seats. And if the stress comes to rise in this environment yet dedicated to tranquility, a detection system by facial scanning and voice analysis automatically offers a way to relax, for example a meditation application. … a more rational technical sheet More rationally, we will retain from this concept car its technological choices capable of becoming a series production, like the PPE platform which will soon be inaugurated by the Q6 e-tron SUV. Here the mastodon claims a 120 kWh battery capable of recharging to 80% in 25 minutes, when the autonomy flirts with the 750 km WLTP, provided that the cavalry of 295 kW (400 hp) and 690 Nm of torque is spared. delivered by a duo of electric motors. If the Audi Urbansphere study were to know the joys of series production, in the coming years, we bet that it would add a row of additional seats