You are as good as any presenter on this channel for vehicles but your science and tech explaining talents are vastly under utilized here. I hope you are put on more big picture and tech video projects.
...and an admission that the car is the opposite of what is needed or worth covering, justified with "but look: it's cool!" ... (also: No. No it isn't. In the least)
Could they possibly get around to making their A-line sedans electric? I so don't care about bloody SUVs and crossovers. Bring in the sleek, swoopy, premium sedans with an EV powertrain.
So one more big SUV with a huge battery to compensate the huge weight and bad aerodynamic, and off course at a huge price. Meanwhile German activists are burning the Tesla factory because of the evil (made in Germany) Tesla model Y. I have been driving an EV for more than 20 years, starting with a PSA 106 electric, and it starts to be irritating to see medias arguing against far too expansive and not even efficient EVs and at the same time complaining that a model Y is far too simple. And I do not own a model Y. I think I am just going to give up on EV news.
Oh look, another expensive suv, that only relatively rich people can afford. Audi need to start making small EV's, and Fully Charged should be driving these cars instead of what seem paid advertorials.
It’s unfortunately because it’s what most people want.. If we as customers show our interest in sedans and more compact cars, they would focus more on that. I don’t get it why we always need something bigger and “better”..
It's not an important car to me I'm afraid...and what the HELL is wrong with car frontage design these days ? This looks like it's been crashed already. :o(
Another over-sized nightmare of a car. What is required is a really neat update of the 1970s Polo at a low price like the new electric Dacia. "Now let's start talking about the design ..." Oh dear, oh dear. What is needed is less clever design, and more sensible and economic design, so I could not watch to the end. Fully Charged, you really need to stick to common sense and bread and butter concerning EVs. A budget for the average Joe or Josephine, rather than another aspirational and over weight and over-priced vanity project ... Best wishes from George in Herefordshire
The money has to come from somewhere. There again a great many YT vloggers find their output interrupted by ads. We can't expect something for nothing.
It does look good but you might want to check those numbers on the wheelbase. The overall length is 4.77m (so slightly longer than the EV6 you mentioned) but the wheelbase is actually 2.9m (the same as the EV6) - nowhere near 3.88m. You can tell that just by looking at it (and Audi's own website confirms it).
Hello there, I've been watching the channel for the past decade now, I promote EV's, have two, convinced family to go ev, it wasn't even hard, I didn't even know I did it....and I've been wanting to ask for some time: can you stand a lot of constructive criticism? This channel is now soo good, that it's bad. Jumping the shark, you name it, somewhere in the past two years something changed, and I do not find this channel enjoyable, or useful anymore. It might be my way of saying Robert did a better, raw, human, job, than this polished exceptional ad, because it is more of an ad, of the channel, or of the car, of the presenter, fashion line... than is a useful thing to watch. Robert was undoubtedly cringe sometimes, really didn't take himself too seriously, but that made him one of us, a person, and I miss that. This could be just as well an AI Avatar. dial down the quality, bring some people in the mix.
Senior school physics. Weight 2,565kg (unladen). If it takes x amount of power to move weight y from a to b. It takes 2x to move 2y the same distance. Bit of a hefty beast. I seem to remember someone saying EVs are not going to save the planet. At this rate EVs will be the demise of said planet.
You could put a gas burning range extender in the vehicle and it would still burn less gasoline than a conventional ICE or mild hybrid. You'll never get that carbon trapped back into the ocean or crust. At least with batteries once we've mined enough you can reuse 92-98% of the mineral content. Governments just need to setup the recycling infrastructure because no private company wants to outlay that cash. You'll still get pollution from tires and occasional brake dust but ER visits for asthma (#1 ER visit in US) will come down.
people who are paying 75p to charge are rich posers who owns businesses and they reclaim the 20% vat fuel back thus turns out to be 14p less, since dave is also running a business too he claims the vat back on his ev charging , but paye working people get nothing
Hardly the most important electric car yet full of gimmicks and cost is a laugh, you did not mention the wheel size which look way over the top your choice of sofa sucks .
There is no V2L, no V2H, no V2G, and no internal or external power outlets. With a battery that big it would be nice to plug your house into that, but you can't. Or if you tow a caravan you might want to run the caravan's power supply off of the car, but you can't.
One wonders if manufacturers are shy on promoting the V2"anything" nonsense on the grounds the batteries get a kicking supplying a domestic load which impinges on the range. Most people are aware that the "advertised" range is something of a myth on the simple grounds nobody, repeat nobody, drives in the same way as anyone else and the stonking acceleration of some vehicles would become addictive. It would for me. Plus a manufacturer has no way of knowing how many passengers, the terrain, whether the regenerative braking would be selected or not, etc, etc. To read that a battery can gain sufficient charge in "ten minutes" to provide power for a "defined" range is laughable. It's also laughable how many battery huggers buy into some arrant nonsense, especially as many (most?) of them will never, ever find out for themselves yet will happily discuss all this trivia as if they truly understood the science. I wonder too if all this talk of governments being "persuaded" to offer subsidies for "anything" means that some people, via their taxes in any form, are going to pay for stuff they might not care for. When hydrogen becomes the fuel of choice and necessity, and it will, many battery huggers will be quite cross when HMG stumps up for our section of the European Hydrogen Backbone (Google is your friend) and offer subsidies for boiler replacements and infrastructure. Battery huggers might do well to recall that the idea of going green is to reduce CO2, try, rept try, to reduce the rate of global temperature rise so the ice sheets and caps don't melt and inundated where we live by next week. Not so much of "forget the cost" but "see the dry land". Plenty of disturbing info on how coastal cities will form part of the new sea bed. And if you feel the refugee problem is bad now, then wait until the planet's islands disappear beneath the waves ... And all because of the battery huggers ignorance of how much CO2 is produced in the manufacture of batteries. Hope that helps.
385 miles out of 100kwh battery just shows how inefficient this SUV is, despite its advanced technology. Why can’t we have efficient estate cars instead of these SUVS? Reduce the frontal area by 20%, get 5 miles/kwh, drop the battery to 80kwh, get more from less.
Would absolutely buy one over the sterile Tesla Model Y. However i do wish reviewers would stop banging on about reconfigurable LED headlight patterns - 99.9% of them will stay on the pattern they’re delivered with
If anyone here actually believes this car will ever manage 3.85 miles/kWh they must be crazy! Folks at wltp clearly don't live in the real world. With this size and weight car you would be lucky to get 250 miles on a full battery... On the other hand what do I know, I've only been driving electric vehicles for the last 4 years.
One glorious summer, my old 2019 Model 3 reported an amazing 169wh / mile on a trip. 295 miles from a standard range! I would love to get one of the new little Dacia Springs and see what I could eke out of it.
How or why did Audi manage to make their most futuristic car on a bespoke platform look more dated and conservative than previous models? Audi design was always about confident sharp panel boundaries and angles, but there's none of that here. From every pretty much every angle of this looks melty, blunt and unconfident. I get that a lot of this EV architecture requires a different approach because of the mass, but from the German manufactures it seems only the Taycan that's presented a design that people 'want' to be seen in,, with a design that clearly aims to show it's the leading edge of the brand's technology and image.
Makes it hard to hate EVs but makes it very easy to hate SUVs . I appreciate it’s a fine line to express how you really feel about a product without being barred from the press junkets but I’m sure TFS could hold it’s own now
I stopped watching at the point where the price was announced. With a £69k starting price, that makes it look silly compared with the £24k cheaper Tesla model Y. A plush interior does not warrant that kind of price disparity. I’ve driven 66,000 miles in two years with a model Y and the first tyres lasted 44,000 miles. Yes the ride could be softer and I wish the auto wipers worked but otherwise it’s been a brilliant fault free, zero service/maintenance vehicle.
SUVs aren't cool anymore. Fast backs and shooting brakes/ estate cars are making a come back. Audi isn't a brand for me, I've never been a fan of VAG brand since I worked for them. Too many problems. German brands are greedy, over priced and break to cost you the earth the second it's out of warranty. IMO it's not for me. But I do like the ethos behind what they are doing.
unfortunately just another horseless carriage rather than making use of the flexibility for design that comes from not having a big engine. Why is there big bonnet?
I don’t like the design at all on the outside and feel that it’s Audi being too cautious and creating a car that looks dated already. The interior and tech looks like a massive improvement for the VW group. Way too expensive though. I think that Imogen is great especially at the science stuff, but I am missing Jack. Hope Jack’s ok.
you fail to point out its still higher prices than petrol and public ev charging needs to be inline competition with home charging rates, otherwise its all robbery
I'm sorry Imogen/Jack, but I have started not watching any EV reviews of cars so far out of my affordable world. Love what you do, but I have seen all of this before and it is not relevant to me.
"starting at £70,000"... not really a car for the masses! And lets not ignore Audis attrocious delivery timelines, Q4 at 18 months last time I looked, anyone buying this one will be lucky to see it before the planet has already melted....
Yet another overpriced, overweight bloated SUV that only the rich can afford. Wait 18 months and if you really want or need it , it will be half price.
I stopped watching at the point where the price was announced. With a £69k starting price, that makes it look silly compared with the £24k cheaper Tesla model Y. A plush interior does not warrant that kind of price disparity. I’ve driven 66,000 miles in two years with a model Y and the first tyres lasted 44,000 miles. Yes the ride could be softer and I wish the auto wipers worked but otherwise it’s been a brilliant fault free, zero service/maintenance vehicle.
Audi target consumer marketing speak: _A family car. For those long journeys._ Reality: _We'll see many middle-aged men, alone, in this - in the cities._ Platform, technology, ambition, and interior: _Great! (What took you so long?)_ Design and car type: _Ugh. Meh. Yawn. Where are the sleek salon cars?!! Ditch this SUV nonsense. And the front? Too busy. Thumb down._
Another electric SUV from Audi 🥲 Where are the sedans!! The SUV trend need to stop asap. They are the worst EV’s, dangerous to pedestrians, and bad for the environment in terms of weight.
Thumbs up for your comment but unfortunately SUVs are what people are buying and the manufacturers are pushing the uptake of these vehicles hard. Sadly I can’t see an end to this unless govt steps in with regulations against them. Here in New Zealand we not only have to put up with SUVs everywhere but over the last few years loads of people have been buying oversized jacked up ute’s (pickups). Many have heavy huge Bull bars welded to the front. They look like urban combat vehicles and will decimate anything unfortunate enough to collide with them.
Another huge electric vehicle we are being convinced we want but don't need. A channel called keepitgoing wont be popular and not 'sponsored' by car brands like this one
Switching to EVs is a good thing, especially for people who do high mileages. Preferably smaller, cheaper more efficient ones than this. Or even better an e-bike.
I fear that price will go into orbit as soon as you look at options; I would love to be proved wrong, but I assume there is no storage under the enormous bonnet?
Audi has been a great car brand, but they have become more and more expensive. 5 years ago I had an Audi Q5 S Line auto and it cost £40,500. Same new car now costs £49,700. They are definately the luxurious level but I will not be able to afford another one.
Most legacy manufacturers are retreating to the high ground I am afraid. What amazes me is the average price of a car in the UK in 2023 was just shy of forty grand - albeit most "sales" are merely rental / lease.
I think Audi have a superiority complex ! I switched to them 14 years ago but now that they have overcome BMW they are pushing the premium brand…. I have a 2014 Q7 and trust me it is premium, but even with inflation it was not at the cost Audi are now presenting…. They are expensive because fewer people can afford them so they make fewer…. I’d love to trade in for an electric model, but it just doesn’t make sense…. Audi, take heed…
Audi will have a hard time against Zeekr and Avatr. I can't understand the pastiche design option for those enormous front grille on the Audi EVs, they are horrendous and clearly are not working to help sales. Way past time to change this.
I was looking forward to this one. And, unfortunately I would have say that this vehicle is a huge disappointment. It’s full of irritating capacitive buttons that’s hard to use, it is completely lacking physical buttons for the climate control, and the business model where the customer need to pay monthly for using certain functions just don’t feel right. But the worst of it all: the split headlights just looks awful. I truly hope this isn’t representative for the upcoming A6 e-tron that I have been planning to buy. If these things also are present in the upcoming A6, I’m going for the bmw i5 instead.
It's so funny how so many are upset with the buttons. I can respect one's opinion but it is just baffling to me that so many complain about screens, or haptic button for that matter. I have personally not issues using screens when driving, so it's purely subjective. Too bad it is such a minus for you, to stop you from buying this.
Yes interesting point - Beemer EVs are mostly chinese built and then assembled in Germany, fooling the EU that they are not Chinese imports. Wonder if it is going to be the same with VW / Audi..
@@ouethojlkjn How many ships with EVs was on fire in midle of ocean in past fwe years ago? Mostly Germans from VW group, BMW was in that ships... I think that we (they) also import in eu finish assembly cars from China or Mexico and than put in paper that is produce in EU... Maybe my instict is wrong but I wan't be supprise if that is true.
@@veljkodjukic8783 Most ship fires are caused by poor maintenance from very poorly paid crew. Or discarded cigarettes in highly flammable areas. When cars are involved - it is usually the 12v battery is dislodged in rough seas and shorts out on something metal under the bonnet. Cars should also be shipped with almost no fuel in them but this is seldom the case. EVs have never been the cause of a ship fire to date - but when they are subject to fire, they will burn like anything else. I do not know what happened with the VW / Porsche Ship fire other than it must have cost someone a great deal of money. Almost everything has some or all of it built in China - to ban imports would be very dangerous for the EU as bans work both ways.
@@veljkodjukic8783this has nothing to do with Xipeng. This is the sister car to the Porsche Macan. The Xipeng cars will be their cheap platform whereas this is an expensive platform. BTW no VW cars are built on this platform only Audi and Porsche.
All I care about when I look at this car is how far EV technology has advanced to date. Who cares what it looks like when the stats show it has a 620Km range and can add 260km of range in 10 minutes. We have come a long way already since the Nissan Leaf. I wonder what is coming next in this EV development journey.
Big SUV or tiny person??! I think on this occasion it's safe to say both!
I think you need a Jack doll/standee to stick in the car. Time to make Jack an official measurement "this car can fit 0.5 Jacks in the back" 🤣😁
You are as good as any presenter on this channel for vehicles but your science and tech explaining talents are vastly under utilized here. I hope you are put on more big picture and tech video projects.
...and an admission that the car is the opposite of what is needed or worth covering, justified with "but look: it's cool!" ... (also: No. No it isn't. In the least)
Random but Imogen is an amazing name
Another expensive, ugly, road whale of an SUV. Where is the electric A1 Audi?
Could they possibly get around to making their A-line sedans electric? I so don't care about bloody SUVs and crossovers. Bring in the sleek, swoopy, premium sedans with an EV powertrain.
The A6 Etron and A6 Etron Avant is coming soon!
@@anemeth9281 those prototypes we're so good looking!
Agree. SUVs everywhere. Give me a nice, truly big, estate (station wagon). Proper leg room and boot space.
Yeah, I hate the fat SUVs everywhere. They're hideous!
BYD seal for instance.
NOTICE HOW THEY HAVE DELIBERATELY LEFT OUT A VITAL POINT...... EFFICIENCY!!!!!! COS ITS ABSOLUTE SHITE
So one more big SUV with a huge battery to compensate the huge weight and bad aerodynamic, and off course at a huge price. Meanwhile German activists are burning the Tesla factory because of the evil (made in Germany) Tesla model Y. I have been driving an EV for more than 20 years, starting with a PSA 106 electric, and it starts to be irritating to see medias arguing against far too expansive and not even efficient EVs and at the same time complaining that a model Y is far too simple. And I do not own a model Y. I think I am just going to give up on EV news.
Oh look, another expensive suv, that only relatively rich people can afford.
Audi need to start making small EV's, and Fully Charged should be driving these cars instead of what seem paid advertorials.
IF only Audi would stop focusing on fcking SUVs...
A6 will be also Coming this year
Also the e-tron gt is one of the nicest non-SUV EVs. Wish there were more of those models, too
I believe it when I see it. @@Knnnkncht
It’s unfortunately because it’s what most people want.. If we as customers show our interest in sedans and more compact cars, they would focus more on that. I don’t get it why we always need something bigger and “better”..
Then stop buying so many SUVs
It's very big and just a bit... dull looking. But on the plus side, I like the fact that it comes with a free cheese grater on the front.
Always freshly grated local cheese of the country you are currently visiting.
And as a bonus you get the freshly aquired protein along with it.
Correction: child grater.
Am I the only one who really hates the audi ev grill? It looks so bad
The plasma blue is a bit boring. Looks great in Daytona gray.
Fawn. Yawn. Repeat.
Another SUV… oh God… terribly boring…
Wow, another oversize SUV. Audi, BMW and Mercedes used to be aspirational brands but I have no desire to own their BEVs. Tesla has stolen their crown.
It's not an important car to me I'm afraid...and what the HELL is wrong with car frontage design these days ? This looks like it's been crashed already. :o(
I used to call that "its been Bangled" - All those pre crashed before delivery Beemers Chris Bangle inflicted on the world.
Another over-sized nightmare of a car. What is required is a really neat update of the 1970s Polo at a low price like the new electric Dacia.
"Now let's start talking about the design ..." Oh dear, oh dear. What is needed is less clever design, and more sensible and economic design, so I could not watch to the end. Fully Charged, you really need to stick to common sense and bread and butter concerning EVs. A budget for the average Joe or Josephine, rather than another aspirational and over weight and over-priced vanity project ...
Best wishes from George in Herefordshire
£68,000! thats when I stopped watching.
Gotta stop counting on massive bricks &,put out affordable fun regular sized cars.
I really like the 2024 Dacia Spring. £15k on the road to start. And it has more charm than this Panzer with a paint job.
Oh look another big fat ugly SUV but now it's built on custom EV architecture. Great. I still don't want one.
This feels more like an advertisement than a honest review.
The money has to come from somewhere.
There again a great many YT vloggers find their output interrupted by ads.
We can't expect something for nothing.
Does it say review in the video title? I think it is more a first look.
Definitely sounds like an advert unfortunately. Probably due to the reviewer being quite new to the business.
On bespoke architecture so it could have been anything it wanted to be but instead a totally anonymous big SUV
Audi needs to understand that evs are not rocket science and it's price also should be affordable like that of Byd models.
Why does every brand insist on having a grille the height of a bloody fridge? There's nothing good-looking (and good visibility) on the market....
Tesla S / 3
BYD Seal
Polestar 2
VW iD7
Mercedes EQS / EQE
😊
Pedestrian safety standards?
@@LeftCoastStephen please be more specific
Polestar 3 and 4 are more sleek in design ?
Hyundai Ioniq Electric 2016-2022. 😊 Most efficient EV ever made.
Nice, but too expensive. But that's kind of a given for an Audi.
Manufacturers make cars for a demographic.....
.....Audi aren't interested in poor people .....!!!
It does look good but you might want to check those numbers on the wheelbase. The overall length is 4.77m (so slightly longer than the EV6 you mentioned) but the wheelbase is actually 2.9m (the same as the EV6) - nowhere near 3.88m. You can tell that just by looking at it (and Audi's own website confirms it).
It's just boring
Audi in a nutshell
I believe there is a typo in the video, a 3.8 wheelbase would be impressive but believe it is just under 2.9m.
makes much more sense!
288
Was thinking that's huge!
Hello there, I've been watching the channel for the past decade now, I promote EV's, have two, convinced family to go ev, it wasn't even hard, I didn't even know I did it....and I've been wanting to ask for some time: can you stand a lot of constructive criticism? This channel is now soo good, that it's bad. Jumping the shark, you name it, somewhere in the past two years something changed, and I do not find this channel enjoyable, or useful anymore. It might be my way of saying Robert did a better, raw, human, job, than this polished exceptional ad, because it is more of an ad, of the channel, or of the car, of the presenter, fashion line... than is a useful thing to watch. Robert was undoubtedly cringe sometimes, really didn't take himself too seriously, but that made him one of us, a person, and I miss that. This could be just as well an AI Avatar. dial down the quality, bring some people in the mix.
Great video, great presenter, great channel. Another dull, expensive, pretentious SUV..... YAWN!!!
"Most important Electric car yet if you are part of the 1 percent!" - There, fixed your headline.
£70k 😂😂😂😂😂
Way too much screen and not enough real buttons. I wish they'd stop with that dumb trend.
Another damn tank on the road. Fuck this.
😂
Senior school physics. Weight 2,565kg (unladen). If it takes x amount of power to move weight y from a to b. It takes 2x to move 2y the same distance.
Bit of a hefty beast. I seem to remember someone saying EVs are not going to save the planet. At this rate EVs will be the demise of said planet.
You could put a gas burning range extender in the vehicle and it would still burn less gasoline than a conventional ICE or mild hybrid. You'll never get that carbon trapped back into the ocean or crust. At least with batteries once we've mined enough you can reuse 92-98% of the mineral content. Governments just need to setup the recycling infrastructure because no private company wants to outlay that cash. You'll still get pollution from tires and occasional brake dust but ER visits for asthma (#1 ER visit in US) will come down.
hard plastic back door upper part at 75K... is absurd and brazen.
people who are paying 75p to charge are rich posers who owns businesses and they reclaim the 20% vat fuel back thus turns out to be 14p less, since dave is also running a business too he claims the vat back on his ev charging , but paye working people get nothing
They still haven't got it; How many people can afford this? If EV's are to be accepted and adopted affordable realistic vehicles are the answer.
This isn't for you. Look at one of the cheap brands. Audi competes with BMW and Mercedes.
Hardly the most important electric car yet full of gimmicks and cost is a laugh, you did not mention the wheel size which look way over the top your choice of sofa sucks .
I hate SUVs, including electric SUVs.
There is no V2L, no V2H, no V2G, and no internal or external power outlets.
With a battery that big it would be nice to plug your house into that, but you can't.
Or if you tow a caravan you might want to run the caravan's power supply off of the car, but you can't.
One wonders if manufacturers are shy on promoting the V2"anything" nonsense on the grounds the batteries get a kicking supplying a domestic load which impinges on the range.
Most people are aware that the "advertised" range is something of a myth on the simple grounds nobody, repeat nobody, drives in the same way as anyone else and the stonking acceleration of some vehicles would become addictive. It would for me.
Plus a manufacturer has no way of knowing how many passengers, the terrain, whether the regenerative braking would be selected or not, etc, etc.
To read that a battery can gain sufficient charge in "ten minutes" to provide power for a "defined" range is laughable.
It's also laughable how many battery huggers buy into some arrant nonsense, especially as many (most?) of them will never, ever find out for themselves yet will happily discuss all this trivia as if they truly understood the science.
I wonder too if all this talk of governments being "persuaded" to offer subsidies for "anything" means that some people, via their taxes in any form, are going to pay for stuff they might not care for.
When hydrogen becomes the fuel of choice and necessity, and it will, many battery huggers will be quite cross when HMG stumps up for our section of the European Hydrogen Backbone (Google is your friend) and offer subsidies for boiler replacements and infrastructure.
Battery huggers might do well to recall that the idea of going green is to reduce CO2, try, rept try, to reduce the rate of global temperature rise so the ice sheets and caps don't melt and inundated where we live by next week.
Not so much of "forget the cost" but "see the dry land".
Plenty of disturbing info on how coastal cities will form part of the new sea bed.
And if you feel the refugee problem is bad now, then wait until the planet's islands disappear beneath the waves ...
And all because of the battery huggers ignorance of how much CO2 is produced in the manufacture of batteries.
Hope that helps.
Sad that Audi don’t make an EV the size of an A3 in a bespoke new platform. Too many SUV.
Are you sure about the wheelbase ? 3.88m seems wrong ?
385 miles out of 100kwh battery just shows how inefficient this SUV is, despite its advanced technology. Why can’t we have efficient estate cars instead of these SUVS? Reduce the frontal area by 20%, get 5 miles/kwh, drop the battery to 80kwh, get more from less.
That's less than 3 full gallons worth of gas in energy though. It also is awd full size and 450+hp.
I like the arrangement of screens: relevant EV info and nav screens for the driver. Apps and entertainment for passenger.
The exterior already looks outdated.
Front just looks awfully, rest is indistinguishable from the Q4 or Q8
Yes. Too busy.
an SUV? ew
Would absolutely buy one over the sterile Tesla Model Y. However i do wish reviewers would stop banging on about reconfigurable LED headlight patterns - 99.9% of them will stay on the pattern they’re delivered with
If anyone here actually believes this car will ever manage 3.85 miles/kWh they must be crazy! Folks at wltp clearly don't live in the real world. With this size and weight car you would be lucky to get 250 miles on a full battery... On the other hand what do I know, I've only been driving electric vehicles for the last 4 years.
One glorious summer, my old 2019 Model 3 reported an amazing 169wh / mile on a trip. 295 miles from a standard range! I would love to get one of the new little Dacia Springs and see what I could eke out of it.
Nice car, but already an old design... Quite similar to the Q4 Etron, which was first shown in Geneva in 2019
Or a 2008 Q5
How or why did Audi manage to make their most futuristic car on a bespoke platform look more dated and conservative than previous models? Audi design was always about confident sharp panel boundaries and angles, but there's none of that here. From every pretty much every angle of this looks melty, blunt and unconfident. I get that a lot of this EV architecture requires a different approach because of the mass, but from the German manufactures it seems only the Taycan that's presented a design that people 'want' to be seen in,, with a design that clearly aims to show it's the leading edge of the brand's technology and image.
Yep the Taycan was a breath of fresh design air. A really good effort.
Young families hahaha… lovely car, hopefully the Chinese will make a copy of it…
Are there charge ports on both sides of this car?? Sure looks like it.
yes
Why would you buy this for 25k more than an ionic 5
Or a £39k Model 3 with 344 mile range and the dual motor with 421. 100kwh battery is crazy!
68,000 LOL MIGHT AS WELL BUY A HOUSE. ALSO SHIT EFFICIENCY GUARANTEED😂😂
nice press release.
Makes it hard to hate EVs but makes it very easy to hate SUVs . I appreciate it’s a fine line to express how you really feel about a product without being barred from the press junkets but I’m sure TFS could hold it’s own now
I stopped watching at the point where the price was announced. With a £69k starting price, that makes it look silly compared with the £24k cheaper Tesla model Y. A plush interior does not warrant that kind of price disparity. I’ve driven 66,000 miles in two years with a model Y and the first tyres lasted 44,000 miles. Yes the ride could be softer and I wish the auto wipers worked but otherwise it’s been a brilliant fault free, zero service/maintenance vehicle.
Shakes head.
SUVs aren't cool anymore. Fast backs and shooting brakes/ estate cars are making a come back. Audi isn't a brand for me, I've never been a fan of VAG brand since I worked for them. Too many problems. German brands are greedy, over priced and break to cost you the earth the second it's out of warranty. IMO it's not for me. But I do like the ethos behind what they are doing.
Q6 won't compete against the '23 Model Y but the refreshed Juniper Model Y, and the Y will be significantly cheaper.
Looks like Audi is struggling to develop its design language, relying on trick lights. The interior has a Peugeot vibe to it.
Soo true man, completely agree!
Yes!!! The new 3008 interior....
unfortunately just another horseless carriage rather than making use of the flexibility for design that comes from not having a big engine. Why is there big bonnet?
No, No, No - the world is sadly doomed - get real, please ? I would NOT aspire to that as you kept telling me.
I don’t like the design at all on the outside and feel that it’s Audi being too cautious and creating a car that looks dated already. The interior and tech looks like a massive improvement for the VW group. Way too expensive though.
I think that Imogen is great especially at the science stuff, but I am missing Jack. Hope Jack’s ok.
Imogen said that Jack will be back on the channel on Thursday.
Imogen has a better presenting style than Jack!
you fail to point out its still higher prices than petrol and public ev charging needs to be inline competition with home charging rates, otherwise its all robbery
"we've spent our lives telling you to drive smaller, cheaper, more afforable electric vehicles, but then we got this massive sponsorship contract"
I'm sorry Imogen/Jack, but I have started not watching any EV reviews of cars so far out of my affordable world. Love what you do, but I have seen all of this before and it is not relevant to me.
You gotta have a mix though tbh
"starting at £70,000"... not really a car for the masses! And lets not ignore Audis attrocious delivery timelines, Q4 at 18 months last time I looked, anyone buying this one will be lucky to see it before the planet has already melted....
(Coughs in inflation)
What is this emphasis on customisable head/rear lights. Struggling to understand why anyone would want that ‘feature’ 🤦🏼♂️
I really liked the presentation! Good video! More videos with her, please!😊
Boooooohhhhhh too big! Can you imagine hitting a pedestrian with this? It's a weapon. Too high!
Who in the world would compare this with a model y!? They are not in the same class. One might as well compare it to VW golf then.
Yet another overpriced, overweight bloated SUV that only the rich can afford. Wait 18 months and if you really want or need it , it will be half price.
I stopped watching at the point where the price was announced. With a £69k starting price, that makes it look silly compared with the £24k cheaper Tesla model Y. A plush interior does not warrant that kind of price disparity. I’ve driven 66,000 miles in two years with a model Y and the first tyres lasted 44,000 miles. Yes the ride could be softer and I wish the auto wipers worked but otherwise it’s been a brilliant fault free, zero service/maintenance vehicle.
Yes it is always the same, there must be a pre nuptial agreement in every press pack - compare it with anything but a Tesla.
Audi target consumer marketing speak: _A family car. For those long journeys._
Reality: _We'll see many middle-aged men, alone, in this - in the cities._
Platform, technology, ambition, and interior: _Great! (What took you so long?)_
Design and car type: _Ugh. Meh. Yawn. Where are the sleek salon cars?!! Ditch this SUV nonsense. And the front? Too busy. Thumb down._
Another electric SUV from Audi 🥲 Where are the sedans!! The SUV trend need to stop asap. They are the worst EV’s, dangerous to pedestrians, and bad for the environment in terms of weight.
Thumbs up for your comment but unfortunately SUVs are what people are buying and the manufacturers are pushing the uptake of these vehicles hard. Sadly I can’t see an end to this unless govt steps in with regulations against them. Here in New Zealand we not only have to put up with SUVs everywhere but over the last few years loads of people have been buying oversized jacked up ute’s (pickups). Many have heavy huge Bull bars welded to the front. They look like urban combat vehicles and will decimate anything unfortunate enough to collide with them.
So important, hardly anyone will be able to afford it! What a stupid headline.
Audi finds their new brand ambassador…. Brilliant
Shall I buy a house or an Audi Electric car……..
Another huge electric vehicle we are being convinced we want but don't need. A channel called keepitgoing wont be popular and not 'sponsored' by car brands like this one
Switching to EVs is a good thing, especially for people who do high mileages. Preferably smaller, cheaper more efficient ones than this. Or even better an e-bike.
I fear that price will go into orbit as soon as you look at options; I would love to be proved wrong, but I assume there is no storage under the enormous bonnet?
Yes there is storage for a cabin bag sized suit case, roughly.
Audi has been a great car brand, but they have become more and more expensive. 5 years ago I had an Audi Q5 S Line auto and it cost £40,500. Same new car now costs £49,700. They are definately the luxurious level but I will not be able to afford another one.
Most legacy manufacturers are retreating to the high ground I am afraid. What amazes me is the average price of a car in the UK in 2023 was just shy of forty grand - albeit most "sales" are merely rental / lease.
No air suspension. Cheap version of Q8 e-tron.
"and this is the opposite of that, but..." * ready for a justification * "this car is cool!" ... 🤦♂
and "cheeky" - that must be worth ten grand on the asking price alone.
I think Audi have a superiority complex ! I switched to them 14 years ago but now that they have overcome BMW they are pushing the premium brand…. I have a 2014 Q7 and trust me it is premium, but even with inflation it was not at the cost Audi are now presenting…. They are expensive because fewer people can afford them so they make fewer…. I’d love to trade in for an electric model, but it just doesn’t make sense…. Audi, take heed…
For that money you could buy solar panels and batteries in 4 houses that'll last 20-30 years and still buy a decent enough petrol car.
🥰 I just 😍 listening her voice...🤩
SUV’s are boring now but the refreshed interior/tech is good to see. Looking forward to the new A6.
I don't know what she is smoking!! professional tennis player, and I want my headlights to be headlights not all singing and dancing.
She’s got the hots for tennis players. Don’t judge 😂
Tesla model Y was the Best selling carmodel on planet Earth in year 2023
Shhhhhh!!!!!! the press pack expressly states not to mention that on camera!!!
Audi will have a hard time against Zeekr and Avatr. I can't understand the pastiche design option for those enormous front grille on the Audi EVs, they are horrendous and clearly are not working to help sales. Way past time to change this.
I was looking forward to this one. And, unfortunately I would have say that this vehicle is a huge disappointment. It’s full of irritating capacitive buttons that’s hard to use, it is completely lacking physical buttons for the climate control, and the business model where the customer need to pay monthly for using certain functions just don’t feel right.
But the worst of it all: the split headlights just looks awful.
I truly hope this isn’t representative for the upcoming A6 e-tron that I have been planning to buy.
If these things also are present in the upcoming A6, I’m going for the bmw i5 instead.
Welcome to the future
Get ready to order the i5 then
It's so funny how so many are upset with the buttons. I can respect one's opinion but it is just baffling to me that so many complain about screens, or haptic button for that matter. I have personally not issues using screens when driving, so it's purely subjective. Too bad it is such a minus for you, to stop you from buying this.
Another fat e-tron. Poor efficiency.
Great review as always but whats happened to jack?
huh real wheelbase is 2899mm or about a meter shorter than mentioned?
8:33 The Model X is also less expensive than this. Who is this even for?
You sound like a Tesla fanboy.
Looks boring... like all Audis.
Is this not just an advert.... Munro and Associates were far less positive..
Its a marked for thoes companies that play in that ball game. Go tell Henry Ford this😂
So where is Mr Jack Starling. Haven’t seen him on the channel for ages.
So many lines, too many angles, can't make it's design-mind up.
Wow another SUV! So boring
I think that this platform is from Xpeng G9. VW have some 4% in Xpeng and this platform was in plan to go on some VW cars...
Yes interesting point - Beemer EVs are mostly chinese built and then assembled in Germany, fooling the EU that they are not Chinese imports. Wonder if it is going to be the same with VW / Audi..
@@ouethojlkjn How many ships with EVs was on fire in midle of ocean in past fwe years ago? Mostly Germans from VW group, BMW was in that ships... I think that we (they) also import in eu finish assembly cars from China or Mexico and than put in paper that is produce in EU... Maybe my instict is wrong but I wan't be supprise if that is true.
@@veljkodjukic8783 Most ship fires are caused by poor maintenance from very poorly paid crew. Or discarded cigarettes in highly flammable areas. When cars are involved - it is usually the 12v battery is dislodged in rough seas and shorts out on something metal under the bonnet. Cars should also be shipped with almost no fuel in them but this is seldom the case. EVs have never been the cause of a ship fire to date - but when they are subject to fire, they will burn like anything else. I do not know what happened with the VW / Porsche Ship fire other than it must have cost someone a great deal of money. Almost everything has some or all of it built in China - to ban imports would be very dangerous for the EU as bans work both ways.
@@veljkodjukic8783this has nothing to do with Xipeng. This is the sister car to the Porsche Macan. The Xipeng cars will be their cheap platform whereas this is an expensive platform. BTW no VW cars are built on this platform only Audi and Porsche.
All I care about when I look at this car is how far EV technology has advanced to date. Who cares what it looks like when the stats show it has a 620Km range and can add 260km of range in 10 minutes. We have come a long way already since the Nissan Leaf. I wonder what is coming next in this EV development journey.
Is it bidirectional?
Good question ... probably not charging stations ... despite the promises.
But you're forgetting about the people who absolutely _need_ to do 720 km non-stop. Proves EVs are worthless and we should all go back to diesel.
@@t1n4444 As EV ranges increase there becomes less need for many public roadside charging stations anyway.
@@drunkenhobo8020 They must have huge bladders don't you think?