View photos and details of our entire new. Is it better than a Taycan? It offers a fraction more comfort and space and a smidge less speed, but really the differences are minute. Serving Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (MI), is the place to purchase your next New Audi RS e-tron GT. Disappointing, given Audi is the fast estate company, but there’s plenty of time to change its mind. There are no plans to offer a simpler, rear-wheel drive version like the Taycan (our current pick of the electric Porsche range), and no plans to follow the Taycan Cross Turismo with an Avant version of the e-tron GT.

But it shouldn’t be, because in every department this is a hugely impressive car: comfy enough to be a daily driver, but with face-melting acceleration in its locker a practical four-door car, but with chiselled good looks – if the one sacrifice for accessing all that talent is planning your road trip routes carefully to incorporate some rapid charging, then it’s a small sacrifice to make. In a world where Tesla is claiming a 400, even 500-mile range on the latest Tesla Model S, the Audi’s 300-mile range will still be a limiting factor for some, whether they need to cover big distances regularly or not. An electric powertrain fits the brand’s aspirations as a tech-leader, too, which means there won’t be nearly as much fuss as when Porsche took the wraps off the Taycan. It’s simply a handsome four-door GT that plays to Audi’s strengths – namely a high-quality interior, comfort and useability and a belting turn of pace that’s more than worthy of the RS badge. The Audi RS e-tron GT is a production vehicle that is not designed or suitable for use on the racetrack or in a rally. The e-tron GT’s real strength is it’s not trying too hard to be a car from the future. If you live around Decatur, AL, you may be wondering how you can. But in isolation you won’t notice the difference, this is a low, long, wide and lean looking four-door that hoovers up attention wherever you go in it. Experience Electrified Performance on A Whole Level In The 2022 Audi RS e-Tron GT.

The Audi is a fraction longer, a little narrower and a few cm taller than the Taycan, there’s a bit of extra boot space too – 405-litres in the back, another 81 in the nose. That theory holds true when you get the measuring tape out, too. So, the Audi is being pitched as more of a rapid GT than a four-door sports car. Rib-crushingly quick, then, just not quite as sadistic as the Porsche. Too slow? The RS gets 590bhp or 637bhp on overboost making it the most powerful RS model to date, albeit in brief bursts, capable of 0-62mph in 3.3 seconds (half a second slower than the Taycan Turbo S, and 1.3 seconds slower than the new Tesla Model S Plaid) and a top speed of 155mph. The ‘quattro’ produces 469bhp, or 523bhp for a 2.5 second boost when you engage launch control – enough for 0-62mph in 4.1 seconds and a top speed of 152mph.

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