The Volkswagen Concept A was a concept car

Concept car

A concept vehicle or show vehicle is a car made to showcase new styling and or new technology. They are often shown at motor shows to gauge customer reaction to new and radical designs which may or may not have a chance of being produced....

 created by German

Germany

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 automobile

Automobile

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 manufacturer, Volkswagen

Volkswagen

Volkswagen is a German automobile manufacturer and is the original and biggest-selling marque of the Volkswagen Group, which now also owns the Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, SEAT, and Škoda marques and the truck manufacturer Scania.Volkswagen means "people's car" in German, where it is...

. It was introduced at the 2006 Geneva Auto Show. The Concept A is a cross between a sportscar and an SUV which makes it rugged and fast.

Description

The Concept A is powered by an I4 twincharger (TSI) engine which gives out a total of around 150 horsepower

Horsepower

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. It has all-wheel drive (AWD) with 4MOTION

4motion

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 and six gears with automatic transmission

Automatic transmission

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. The design of the car is very sporty, but still rugged. It is sometimes claimed as a cross between a sportcar coupe

Coupé

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 and an SUV because of this styling and design. A production version of the Concept A, the Tiguan

Volkswagen Tiguan

Volkswagen Tiguan is a compact crossover vehicle initially built by the German automaker Auto 5000, but now built by Volkswagen, based on the PQ35 platform of the Volkswagen Golf. Production started in the winter of 2007 in Wolfsburg, Germany, and started selling shortly after...

, is expected for sale in late 2008.