Meet the Audi A6L pickup truck from China

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Aug 4, 2014 3:17 PM CEST

An extremely hip Audi A6L pickup truck, found at an Audi dealer in Beijing by a forum member of the Chinese automotive website Autohome.com. The truck is based on a C6 Audi A6L, the stretched variant of the Audi C6 sedan that was manufactured in China by the FAW-Volkswagen joint venture from 2006 until 2012. A great idea but no unique, earlier on we met a pickup truck based on the C5 Audi A6, in Anhui of all places.

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The donor was a heavily crashed car with all behind the B-pillar basically gone. The mechanics at the Audi dealer turned the mess into this beauty; a racy two-door pickup truck with a large bed and a bright yellow bar, fitted with sporty alloys in Audi R8 style.

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Badge = hope, but power comes from the standard 2.0 TFSI turbo four-cylinder petrol engine with 170hp, sending power to the front wheels. Top speed is said to be about 180km/h. Officially, the pickup truck is not allowed in public roads. That of course doesn’t mean it never gets there.

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Brilliant work here with the open rear revealing the yellow bed, sitting above the racy exhaust pipes.

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Big enough for an Audi A1. Window a bit on the small side.

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Floodlight on roof perfectly cool. RS6 badge could have been cool, but Audi mechanics should have known better here. The high-performance version of the C6 Audi A6 was called S6, without the R.  It was powered by a 5.2 liter V10 with an output of 430hp and 540nm. Now, get that into this truck! It has the right badge already…

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