Audi A6 e-tron review

The A6 e-tron range will kick off in the UK with the Sportback and the lowliest motor/battery combo combined with Sport trim costing £62,500. No matter which trim level you select or which powertrain you go for, the Avant will always cost an extra £1,800. Never mind the practicality, that’s worth it for the look alone, we reckon. We’ll focus on Sportback prices here though and trust you to do the maths yourself.

If you want the Performance powertrain with its more powerful single motor and bigger battery, that’ll be an entry price of £69,900, while the twin motor Quattro starts at £75,500.

Sport trim includes 20in wheels, LED lights, heated front seats, the two main screens inside, adaptive cruise control and plenty of active safety systems. Make the step up to S Line trim and you’ll pay an extra £3,500 for aero spec wheels, sporty front seats, S Line exterior styling with chrome accents, a leather steering wheel and stainless-steel pedals. Top spec Edition 1 cars will set you back another £5,000 beyond S Line and add 21in wheels, Matrix LED headlights, black exterior trim, red brake calipers, that 10.9in passenger screen, electrically adjustable leather front seats and heated outside rear seats. 
 
We’ve only driven the Performance iteration so far, so we can’t make a call on which is the best powertrain just yet, but the big battery and single motor of the Performance does allow for that eye-catching 463-mile headline range figure (or 437 miles for the Avant) and could well be the one to go for. It drives nicely too and is certainly fast enough. It also gets 270kW rapid charging while the entry-level car tops out at 225kW.

At £73,400 in Sportback form and S Line trim, the Performance comes in at £705 cheaper than the BMW i5 eDrive40 M Sport. The Audi claims over 100 miles more WLTP range too. Yikes.