MILEAGE 8677 FINAL REPORT
WHY WE RAN IT
Audi's inceptive performance EV is a class act, but what's it like to live with?
There will be a handful of Audi E-tron GTs out there logging some very silly trips indeed. Madrid to Bucharest; Aspen to Jacksonville; Wembley to Greenwich at 5pm on a Friday. Say what you like about often evangelical electric car owners, but they do tend to be intrepid. In fact, a subset is pathologically disposed to battery power even when the rest of us would be sourcing a diesel Skoda and fitting a second fuel cell in the boot. These pioneers enjoy a challenge, clearly.
In light of this, I won't pretend our E-tron GT has done anything particularly special adventurewise. However, it has, during the course of 8600 miles in our care, been put about. It has done trips to Scotland, Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy. And when it hasn't been abroad, it has been slinking about London, which brings a different set of challenges for a car not a lot narrower than a Lamborghini.
How has it been? The product itself has been faultless. Apart from the key fob mysteriously going into hibernation for a day or two, it has had no untraceable rattles, no reluctance to charge, no infotainment glitches, no strange dynamic quirks and not even any of those small user-experience quirks that over time will drive you insane.
Being picky, I could take aim at the parking sensors. They make like I'm about to mow down a pedestrian when in fact it's just that a rear wheel has come within six inches of the kerb during parallel parking.
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