Audi Q6 e-tron review

The price structure for the Q6 e-tron is pretty simple: there are four powertrains and three trim levels to choose from.

For now, the base car is the Q6 e-tron Sport, which costs £60,700. Take a deep breath, because that bundles in 19in alloys, LED headlights, heated folding wing mirrors, contrast black bumpers, heated front sports seats and heated rears, three-zone auto climate control with preconditioning, a heated steering wheel, the 14.5- and 11.9in touchscreen and digital display, 360-degree camera, adaptive cruise control, many active safety gizmos, plus a Sound and Vision Pack that lobs in a Bang & Olufsen sound system (there’s a speaker that’ll whisper directions to you in the headrest - bit disconcerting, that) together with the augmented HUD, ambient lighting and USB-C ports. Aaaand inhale.

Strewth. What else is there left to add?!

Just you wait. Next up is S line for £63,700: that adds 20s, some exterior styling tweaks, privacy glass, black cloth headlining, a three-spoke steering wheel and much S line badging. Not much substance to our eye, but Audi reckons it’ll be the big seller. Weird.

Then there’s the top-level Edition 1 spec for £68,700. Say hello to 21s, sport suspension, matrix LEDs, a black styling package with red brake calipers, the (mostly useless) passenger display, electrically adjustable sports seats finished in Dinamica microfibre/leather, a massage function, and a few other bits.

Quick word on those matrix LEDs: Audi says they come with eight digital signatures so you can choose how it blinks at you when you turn it on, or you can custom-build your own via an app. Has Audi made doubly sure that you can’t make rude shapes do rude things with that?

The SQ6 is only available in Edition 1 trim for the time being, so it’s yours for £93,675. It gets the sophisticated air suspension, a panoramic sunroof and various other styling and interior tweaks to make it look more menacing.

Which one should I buy?

The Sport trim comes with everything you could possibly need and more, while the Performance powertrain gets you the bigger 100kWh battery in RWD (the rangiest of the lot), and costs just £3.5k more than the smaller batteried, less powerful (and less rangey) base variant. Win-win.