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Audi A2 - Gone with the wind

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Created on February 23, 2021

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Audi A2 (2000) - For individualists

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Audi A2 (2000) - An innovative small car

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Audi A2 (2000) - The roof could be opened

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Audi A2 (2000) - Modern design

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Audi A2 (2000) - A conspicuous face in the crowd

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Audi A2 (2000) - Extremely streamlined

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Audi A2 (2000) - Somewhat egg-shaped

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Audi A2 (2000) - Still looks modern

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Audi A2 (2000) - Flat, flattening rear end

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Audi A2 (2000) - good was not good enough

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Audi A2 (2000) - Vorsprung durch Technik in a small car

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Audi A2 (2000) - Unique in many respects

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Audi A2 (2000) - Space Frame

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Audi A2 (2000) - Space Frame

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Audi A2 (2000) - Transparent drawing

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Audi A2 (2000) - The interior

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Audi A2 (2000) - Roundish

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Audi A2 (2000) - Beautiful or not beautiful, that is the question

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Audi A2 (2000) - almost completely digitally designed

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Audi A2 (2000) - An idiosyncratic Ingolstadt car

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Audi A2 (2000) - Never became a success

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Audi AL2 (1997) - The concept car that became the A2

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Audi AL2 (1997) - The concept car that became the A2

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Audi AL2 (1997) - The concept car that became the A2

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Summary

When you think of the Audi A2, you think of failure. The small aluminum ball was a flop as a new car. It is now all the more in demand as a youngtimer. This article looks back at the history of the innovative oddball and shows it in many pictures.

This article contains the following chapters

Gone with the wind
Good is not good enough
Off-the-shelf drive
Long live sport
Practically unbeatable
Young icon
Technical data

Estimated reading time: 8min

Preview (beginning of the article)

The IAA in Frankfurt opens its doors in September 1997 and there is a small sensation to be seen on the Audi stand. Only three years after the debut of the first luxury sedan in aluminum space frame construction, Audi follows up with the AL2 study. This time it is a small car that has been given the aluminum treatment by the Ingolstadt-based company. It is still a study, but a little later the much-noticed test car becomes reality. And almost in digital form. Audi has been dealing with the wind since the early 80s. More precisely, with air resistance, because back then the Ingolstadt-based company was celebrated for the lowest cd value in automotive history at the time. In 1982, the Audi 100 of the 44 model series set the bar very high for all further developments. And the Audi A2 also listens to the dictates of the wind tunnel. For small cars in particular, it is a challenge for developers to achieve low drag coefficients. The short exterior length makes it difficult, and the development of aerodynamic details must not cost too much. Otherwise the margin is blown away faster than the manufacturer would like. The Audi A2 is a masterpiece. Wunibald Kamm is the name of the inventor of the design style realized in the A2 and resourceful Google specialists will quickly find out that the good man was never employed by Audi. Nevertheless, he played a key role in the design of the A2, as its tapered shape towards the rear corresponds to the purest Kamm theory, according to which this body design offers particularly little resistance to the wind.

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