Audi previews next generation e-tron GT
Sister car to the new Porsche Taycan still a looker; probably still not quite as punchy
Much like the Porsche Taycan, the first Audi e-tron GT was an easy car to like. It looked astonishingly good in the flesh, for one thing. When it was new, interested passersby didn’t just stop, they took a collective step back like they were at a car show, as if trying to take the whole thing in. It really did look like it’d been driven off a stage. And obviously it went like the clappers. Moreover, because more people chose the Taycan when it came time to buy, the GT got to seem like the slightly unorthodox, marginally cooler choice. Even if that hasn’t saved it from much the same cliff-edge depreciation.
Anyhoo, just as there is a new Taycan, there will very soon be a new e-tron GT. Audi isn’t quite ready to reveal it in full just yet, but it is ready to start showing us what it looks like in prototype form. Which, it must be said, is very much what it looked like before. So no complaints there. Underneath, of course, it’s based on the same updated J1 platform as the Porsche, which means it will almost certainly share the 82kWh and 97kWh batteries that have earned the Taycan an improved range and the capacity to charge up to 320kW.
The e-tron’s output is harder to call. Not because it’s hard to tell if there will be more of it (there absolutely will) but because the car has always lived in the Taycan’s shadow in terms of outright performance, so it’s a guessing game when it comes to how close the new version has been allowed to get. Suffice it to say the old car had 530hp in quattro trim, and 646hp as an RS, so while the 775hp (or 952hp on overboost) will almost certainly be reserved for the Turbo S, it seems like more than 700hp is likely for the latter, with the former likely pitched above a Taycan 4S but below a regular Turbo.
That said, we know an RS Performance version is also inbound, so perhaps Audi has been given a longer leash this time. Additionally, the manufacturer has already confirmed the presence of the innovative electro-hydraulic active suspension system that debuted in the Taycan, so expect an improved bandwidth in terms of handling character, even if the car’s kerbweight still starts with a 2. Obviously we don’t know what number its price tag will start with, although it’s safe to assume that the £88,365 and £120,515 the GT and RS respectively start at will have increased. We’ll find out for sure later this year.
Much prefer these to the Taycan.
kPANZER supreme. Get in the sea.
TX.
(*NOTE* Just to make clear, I still don't have £100k+ in available readies to throw on one anyway, but hey......... not like that ever stopped anyone on PH throwing a ranting opinion on something they can't afford before now, is it?
)- Urgh!! A little vomitus just came up..
- Too old, too boring, too slow, too expensive!
- 50 year old wrecks do absolutely nothing for me
- Who would want a 20 year old land rover? They were a bag of sh**e when new.
The other 99% of their posts are about his lad's e-tron. Looks like a Passat and has a name like one of those things you shove up your willy and activate from an app on your phone!
IMHO of course.
Aside from the Rimac we will never see, the run of the mill stuff like this, even the lowest power outputs are massive, wonder if it will get reigned in ?
We dont get the Tesla Model S any more, so dont get the 1020 bhp Plaid model, dont think Lucid are selling cars here so the new Taycan GT will likely be the fastest EV out there.
Wonder if the manufacturers will keep trying to outdo each other ? Porsche have fired a shot over Teslas bow, as have Lucid, the Plaid has been around for a while and Elon Musk isnt one to shy away from a pissing contest, next Plaid type Model from Tesla, what do we reckon 1300 ?
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