Audi Concept C

Audi showed the Concept C at the Munich Motor Show on 4 September 2025: a two-door targa with a retractable hardtop, titanium-coloured paint, 500 bhp, 500 Nm, and a six-speed manual. The design language is called radical simplicity and the reference is the 1936 Auto Union Type C.

The manual is what makes it worth your time. A concept car is where a company says what it would like to be, and almost every concept of the last decade has said it would like to be a screen. Audi put three pedals in one and invited photographers.

It is reported to be closely linked to a two-seat electric sports car expected in 2027, possibly a new TT, which would of course have no gearbox at all. Audi's own site carries the standard line that this is a concept vehicle and is not available as a production vehicle, and no production version has been confirmed.

So the gearbox is almost certainly not coming. It was still the most interesting thing anyone put on a stand that week, and it tells you exactly what Audi thinks its customers miss.