A personal exploration of an Audi-badged Dakar rally machine. Compact carbon shell, oversized off-road tyres, exposed yellow quattro suspension travel — designed to live in the dust.
Audi Geo is a personal concept project — an Audi-badged Dakar rally machine built around three ideas: a single tight carbon-fibre cell for the driver, oversized off-road tyres pushed to the absolute corners of the chassis, and a fully visible long-travel suspension running in Audi yellow.
The body language pulls from the Audi quattro heritage — wide stance, hard surface blocking, the four-rings face cut into the front mask — and crosses it with the rawer vocabulary of desert rally prototypes: exposed structure, deliberately mismatched front/rear wheel coverage, and the abrasive carbon texture left visible rather than painted over.
Modelled in Rhinoceros using a mix of NURBS surfacing for the body shell and SubD for the more organic fender and wheel-arch volumes. Rendered across multiple environments — desert dust, dune crest, snow jump — to test how the surface language holds up against very different lighting conditions.
The short moodfilm playing in the homepage hero rotation was generated with Adobe Firefly AI from a set of reference renders. Used here as a fast-iteration partner — testing motion, lighting and camera framing before committing to a full Unreal cinematic.
This is one of a small set of quattro-themed personal explorations, alongside the Audi QS-Sphere SUV thesis project from my time at the Politecnico di Milano TAD master's.
Concepts that only work in one carefully-staged hero environment tend to be hiding something. The Geo was rendered across desert, snow, and packed dirt to pressure-test the surface language.
The full image set, including additional renders, process notes, and detail views, lives on Behance.
Drag horizontally to rotate the turntable. Modelled in Rhinoceros, rendered in Light Tracer.
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