Audi A6 e-tron review

The A6 e-tron range kicks off with the Sportback and the lowliest motor/battery combo (322bhp, 75.8kWh) in Sport trim costing £63,305. 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 (375bhp, 94.9kWh), that’ll be an entry price of £70,705, while the twin motor Quattro starts at £75,805.

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.

Here's the skinny on all of that: Sport gives you all you need but looks a little bland. So have S Line. Just do yourself a favour and resist the 21s. Brace yourself for one of the most dreary colour palettes we’ve seen in a while. It’s like Audi pinned a picture of Slough on a mood board, nodded and went ‘ja, das’.

We’ve only driven the Performance iteration so far, so we can’t make a call on which is the best powertrain, 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). As we said in the Overview, currently that’s our choice.

At £74,205 in Sportback form and S Line trim, the Performance is £705 cheaper than the BMW i5 eDrive40 M Sport. The Audi has over 100 miles more WLTP range too. That’s got to be worth having.