RS RS Entry 598 boost to 646 Quattro Electric 93.4kWh 4dr Auto

Not a luxury performance car

The Audi GT e-tron RS is magnificently styled in my opinion, but that is where the good qualities of this car ends. The driving experience is extremely poor, especially compared with a Tycan that is measurably better from ride quality, cornering and simply sitting behind the steering wheel in a much better appointed cabin.

On the road the RS is highly unstable around sweeping motorway corners, it just never gives you confidence in it ability to hold it position. In a straight line the RS is fine, but it doesn't really seem to absorb the road and there is a constant jiggling of your head, as you absorb the undulations of the road.

The interior is poor for a car of this cost, pretty uninspiring, however, I do like that it has some functional buttons. I previously had a Porsche Panamera as my daily drive, and the cabin in my opinion for absolutely top notch in terms of ergonomics, build and quality of materials. The GT does not even come close to the Panamera, that is now quite old.

The range is at best 245 miles in summer on a full charge, driving reasonably and mostly motorway miles. This shrinks to circa 200 and lower in winter months, depending on how cold it gets. In addition, the battery has degraded already after just 30,000 miles, I have lost 30 miles off the 100% charge i was achieving initially when i got the car. I drive the same journey at the same speed every day, so its not the fact that i am driving any differently or anything has changed. I question when the next 30 miles will be that I lose off the battery capacity, that will then take me to sub 200 range.

Finally, as the mileage depletes the battery, at below 140 miles of range left, the car automatically starts to take away acceleration power. it takes it away in increments of 5%, Audi are telling me this is not a fault and the car is supposed to do this. So by the time I get to having a 100 miles of range left it will have taken away up to 20% of my available acceleration power and at 70 miles left it will have take away up to 40% of my acceleration power available. The issue for me, is that I bought a performance car, that is only a performance car less that 50% of the time, as i cannot access all of the available power. It doesn't seem right, but i have had no joy from Audi in trying to get a straight answer; extremely poor customer service as usual.

In summary, looks amazing, great acceleration, but other than that, i am left with an extremely poor car that i will be getting rid of in the next few months. I am glad that i bought this car at 1 year old, as i only paid £78k, for a car that cost £130k a year earlier. So the other big watch out is the horrendous depreciation. A truely awful car and a poor excuse for an RS.

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