Price: R2 425 000 0–100 km/h: 4,5 seconds Top speed: 210 km/h Power: 370 kW Torque: 973 N.m Energy consumption: 25,6 kWh/100 km Range (CAR index): 380 km
Split personality impresses, but its premium price problematically puts it into the hands of those who care the least about saving the planet
Braam Peens
A fast, desirable family hauler that balances both luxury and style; however, there’s no ignoring its heft, price and middling real-world range
Damian Adams
If, according to BMW marketing speak, the letter M is the most powerful in the automotive lexicon, then Audi’s riposte would surely be that the word quattro is the most all-encompassing.
Who can argue with this?
Apart from its contemporary fossil-fuel burners, it’s an all-wheel-drive designation that’s adorned everything from the company’s famed Group B rally monsters to Le Mans champions … and now, EVs.
And as if that’s not a dizzying enough array of disciplines under this one nameplate, consider the trickery Audi resorted to when