The new audi e-tron GT Is the coolest car in The World
The electric car in the world looks very well we're going to find out and to talk you about everything this car and what you need to know about this car, take this car for a drive and check out its performance, believe it or not this is actually this is one of the international launch of this car and normally audi would be having something unique in Launching Event probably in the south of France or somewhere glamorous like one but instead i've had to pick up this car for the keens, still i have got the high performance RS version of this car so it's a case of swings and round about it i'm feeling a bit sick buying a new car then head to car wow and my team will help you find your next car at a fair price car wow your one-stop car buying comparison site let's kick off this Blog by talking about the price so this e-tron GT starts at just under 2.45 cr PKR rising all the way up to 2.90 cr pkr for this range-topping rs version in four spring carbon trim so it's quite a lot money then and you wanna make sure you're paying a fair price for your next new car and to ensure you're doing that you can click on the pop-out banner that I just put popping out in the top right corner of the screen there to go to car wow because on average car while buyers save over 2,900 pounds now if you want to do that at a later date you can simply google help me car wow and my team and i will help you choose the right car for you and get it for a fair price from one of our trusted dealers let's talk about the e-tron gt's design because this car it looks stunning in fact audi's design team i would like to congratulate you on a job very very well done i mean look it's gorgeous absolutely gorgeous especially like when you see the car with its unique colour's think as far as having this car i would have this paint scheme it's very brave but it's also very very cool tell you what's also called this big light bar across the back and the 3d effect of the lights you've got a deployable spoiler there which will pop up at speed don't know what that speed is and look down here you've got a diffuser is it a real diffuser no it's probably fake it looks quite cool that is the only fake thing on this car you probably noticed the carbon fiber as well that's because this is an rs version sprung carbon so you get extra carbonyl bits on it and obviously you've got your rs badging there as well too do note this is the most powerful version of the e-tron gt coming down the sides they've got really wide haunches makes the car look muscular nice creases in the body work this car is riding on 21-inch alloy wheels so the range kicks off with 20s for the normal etron gt and as you can see these alloys have these little blades in them to improve their aero minimise drag and maximize efficiency and this car is fitted with the carbon ceramic brakes check this out though look at this there's a carbon fiber roof on rs vor sprung carbon models normal rs on gt's have a panoramic glass roof down the side you've got some side skirts this once again in the carbon version you've got carbon fiber on the door mirror capsule look vintage here which is real vintage good work audi good work real vintage and real vintage here at the front as well come around to the actual grill look at this first time
Ever an audi grill has been color-coded like to the bodywork there's a little patterning on it there as well to add some texture wow it's a really neat looking car isn't it and I like the bonnet design the way it's sculpted that is cool this is a really really good looking car now if you disagree with me let me know in the comments below because you will still be wrong here on the inside the eatron gt is just as lovely as on the outside so yeah round of applause for the interior designers at audi as well as the exterior designers great job guys love the look and the layout of the dash the different textures and shapes common fiber here on this one obviously it's a rs model so you've got all the bells and whistles quality is very good throughout oh it's all just feels very solid well-made the driving position is great as well and you've got electrical adjustment for the steering wheel suitably partially car like this and rs sport seats in this car and there's loads of adjustment in them as well I like the way it feels very sporty and how you have this central tunnel there separating you from your passenger i also like the layout of the infotainment system so it's not too big or distracting like in some other electric cars sorry ford that's hard to cough under that one and it's ideas familiar system so it's easy to use you can swipe through the different menus it's clear crisp the processor is quick as well and you've got apple carplay and android auto which of course is what you're going to use i like the way they've done this though you've got separate buttons for the climate control so you can just do things like your heated seats your ventilated seats your temperature your fan speed just by pressing a physical button which is just much easier to do when you're driving than on some other audi's like the rs6 where you have to do it through like a touchscreen and stuff like that now ad has updated the digital driver's display for this e-tron and it's the crispest display i've seen in an audi yet it's amazing love the graphics on that as ever you can choose different views and go through different menus and you can also change the setup of it in the main infotainment system for various views i've got it on the special e-tron version which is like slightly sporty but concentrating on efficiency and range at the same time which is hard yeah i like that though it's really really nice another thing to talk about is the storage here inside so the door bins are in all right size i can fit an empty bottle of water in it and um the high vis jacket here on the center console i've got some cup holders there and a space there for things a bit annoying it's not quite large enough for the larger mobile phones like i've probably got the new S21 or should i get an iphone let me know in the comments below blood box that's in all right size it's fine yeah it's all good and under here there's some more storage though it's rather tiny in there not much space you've got your USB connections there and your wireless charging for your mobile phone will my big phone fit in there oh yes there's a little recess part so it does slot in there that's really neat it's a lot yeah lovely interior really really really nice ah alcantara steering wheel as well it's good although it does get grubby after a while if like me you like to eat crisps while you're driving along and then you just get it all in the steering wheel too much information here in the back of the etron gt it's not bad you know so headroom look if i sit up straight i've got about that much so people over six foot should just about be okay knee room is really good because what they've done is sculpt out the back of the seat so you get loads of knee room they've also sculpted out the floor as well create lots of foot space now audi call that a foot garage yes there's someone in marketing who's getting paid a lot of money to come up with things like that wish i had their job anyway it does mean that there's plenty of foot space so that's all right also I really like the sculpted sport seats i just wish that they recline a bit more no you can't recline them oh well what about the middle seat this is supposed to be a three seater in the back because that we've got the extra seatbelt let's try it out it's not good it's not really that good at all hmm i guess if you want to carry three people in the back of your electric car you're better off with an audi e-tron brought back or the norway train if you want to see my full in-depth Blog review of that suv i'll put a link up there she'll be popping out click on that you can go watch that video a bit more information on practicality so you've got an armrest here though it's spot slightly by those cuff holders when they have a cover on it and if you need to carry longer items such as your skies as you're heading off to the south of france in your electric four-wheel drive sporty coupe a yeah look you can load your skis through there two people either side still there is one thing it's all quite dark in here and the rear windows are quite small and look they don't go down particularly far do they so i can see the benefit of having the car with a panoramic glass roof it's a bit of a shame that the rs version doesn't have that i mean i don't really need to save weight on the roof doesn't matter though because you can actually fit the panoramic roof to the rs vor sprung model as an option a non-cost option we need to talk about the boot you see for a car this size the capacity you have here isn't all that big
Just 366 liters which is exactly the
same as the big capacity on a porsche ti cam because underneath the skid they're pretty much the same car now
tesla model s's big capacity is 744 liters way bigger
but let's talk about this boot for now there is a bit of a load lip but then it is a saloon tailgate it's not too bad
really for saloon lifting things in and out there's some netage to hold down things such as
a small animal you might have just captured no you won't have captured an animal because you're a vegan aren't you
so maybe a um a vegetable that you've captured some little storage pods here and here
12 volt socket a little bit of extra storage under here they don't get too excited
because you're not gonna be able to fit much in there now you can fold down the
rear seats to create more space if you need to carry really long items but you can't do
it from in the boot there is one thing though look the hook
for hanging your shopping bags off if you need to fall down the rear seats you have to go round to the back and do it from here and then you can look there we go there then you have a flattish load floor obviously being an electric car there is some more storage space underneath the front body because we have a front boot a fruit it's only 81 liters in capacity but i need to do the all-important
car review uh behaving like a child test on it so i'm going to get in and see if i can fit look would it fit my person oh just about squeezing in i could hear some cracking of some plastic parts but never mind that's not my car oh dear oh my god what happened there oh um well i did fit but i dislodged this and oh crap look i've actually cracked it these cars are online from germany they're going to go mad at me i don't think i'm going to do that
stupid test again anyway i do what's also stupid look the size of this cable bag it's absolutely huge
so once you put that in there you basically use up all that space and that brings me up to five annoying things about the e tron gt for some reason the car makes this noisewhen you reverse and then brake it's as though the brake discs are going
every time they get squeezed by the pads weird look at this the way the dash is designed is that when you open the door it's got this horrible protruding spike which is just sticking out so if you long of leg and you get in you could accidentally go hey i wish everything in the world would just die is that too much overacting on the rs6 and r7 you get a little RS mode button on the steering wheel which lets you toggle between different presets for the driving configuration of the car yeah even though this e-tron gt is the rs model it doesn't have the rs button so you have to take your eyes off the road slightly to press the drive select mode down there which is annoying so less RS more just arse this is one heavy ass car it weighs in at 2 347 kilos which interestingly is 400 kilos heavier than an rs7 if you're the kind of person that likes to rest your elbows when you're on a long distance drive you'll be fine rest them on that armrest but not so good resting them over here because
there is no armrest instead your elbow ends up in the hard
cup holder just right on the edge of it on your funny bone wow it's not all negative though here's
five good things about this car the RS e-tron gets out as top of the range
laser headlights which can do all sorts of things obviously they do a little dance and stuff when you
start the car open and all that kind of thing super cool are you a vegan that's offended of
having to sit on dead cow well don't worry you can get your eater on gt with
a vegan friendly non-leather interior also you can get floor mats that are made out of 100 recycled nylon parts so from old carpets and fishing nets yes perfect if you want to get onto twitter and dot virtue signaling about how right on you are these pedals on the steering wheel don't change gears like in a normal car
because this car doesn't have a normal gearbox
instead they alter the regen effect when you lift off the accelerator and the braking you get from the motor as it Rekeeps less energy and puts it back into the batteries now the effect of that can be so severe that you get 0.3 g of deceleration which if you're an engineer you'll appreciate is quite a lot you know i said this car doesn't have a normal gearbox it does actually have a two-speed gearbox on the rear axle reason being that gives you really good strong initial acceleration but also decent acceleration when you're going at higher speeds whereas other electric cars can run out of puff it's important for a car that's designed to go fast on the autobahn now the rs version of this e-tron gt also gets an electronically controlled (Quattro) limited-slip differential to maximize traction as you're exiting turns because there's no internal combustion engine the service intervals on this car are actually long so they're two years or 19 000 miles so you don't have to be messing around with it all that much you know what i'm doing the e-tron gt has a 93 kilowatt hour battery pack and that should be good for a range
according to our d of 300 miles but we'll see what the real world
range of this car works out to in a moment when i drive it so the car is capable of charging at 270 kilowatts and if you can find a charger that'll do
that it'll charge from about 10 to 80 full in around half an hour more likely though you're going to come
across a 50 kilowatt charger and that'll take you 90 minutes to charge to 80 this car is powered by two
electric motors one the fron one at the back in the normal quattro model you have a combined
476 horsepower though for two and a half seconds you get a boost function that takes that up to
530 horsepower in this rs version you have a combined 598 horsepower and the boost function for 2.5 seconds
gives you 646 horsepower okay let's see what this audi e-tron gt is like to drive i'm gonna start out on faster roads because that is what it's designed for it's a gt car now what i've done is actually reset the trick computer so i'm gonna see what kind of energy consumption i average during my short drive in this car now one of the things i should point out first all but the entry-level version gets air suspension as standard and you can alter the height of it and the air suspension when you're going at higher speeds is really good at gliding you and wafting you over bumps
makes it really relaxing sometimes electric cars can have a jarring feel when they go over bounce but this seems
to just smooth them out quite nicely the reason electric cars have such jarring feeling sometimes is because you have to fit them in such stiff suspension because they're so heavy it stops them rolling about
whereas this one i think they've done it quite well it also seems to go around roundabouts pretty well which is a good thing i'm driving around some nearby area's because this is where audi Pakistan's base is where i'll pick the car up from and i've only got a short time with it so i'm having to drive it around here but there's a good variation of roads one thing i'm noticing is a little bit of road noise this car has some huge tires on it for maximum grip but it does mean that you do hear more road noise than if the tyres were thinner the car is well insulated
though so we've got double glazing on this one so there's no wind noise at all but i am just picking up that
road noise partly because i have no engine droning away under the bonnet got a silent electric motor now if it's
a bit too silent for you i can actually put this car into sports mode and as well as stiffening up the suspension and sharpening the throttle response and making the ceiling a bit heavier it plays some sounds through the car speakers so this is fitted with a special and sound pack what's happening is audi's engineers have worked with sound engineers and they've created noises for the cars to make so it doesn't sound like an internal combustion engine car more like a spacecraft they've created some strange noises one of them was created by blowing a fan down a long tube and it gives a sort of more sound let me see if i can make it do it can hear it when i'm breaking i'm going to accelerate you hear that noise i'm not sure about it kind of works and gives you this
sense of building speed but it's i don't know maybe every time i'll get used to those kind of things but let's
do it again it's a little bit computer gaming i'll tell you what's also computer gaming the throttle response it's like who a you put your foot down and it absolutely flies that's not really going to help me with my range test much the seats are comfy that's good so for longer distances you're going to be fine driving position is good one of the good things about milton keynes is that there are lots of roundabouts so you can really check the handling out
this is a heavy car but all the weight is low down and maybe the carbon roof is helping a bit with the center of gravity as well by lowering it i don't think it's gonna make much of a difference but this car is going around this roundabout let's see if we can keep up with him around here i'd start to wash wide eventually one
drawback that i have noticed though is the view out the back window it's hardly anything you can't see very much at all also another problem i've noticed is that this window area isn't that big and this pillow obstructs your view when you're looking across that way and it's annoying when you're roundabouts or other junctions trying to pull out does just get in the way obviously this car's got all the latest safety systems to help you out so it 'll stop you crashing into things and you know does auto emergency braking and all of that kind of stuff oh it's starting to lean a little bit now well do you know what through testing this on the roundabouts of Karachi i can tell you this car turns right very well indeed i'm not sure what it's like turning left hopefully it's better than the zoolander i can't turn left now let's see what this car is like when you're doing lower speeds it's just round town or maybe around a housing estate in Karachi let's try the suspension over some ruts
it's dealing with those pretty well feels like a comfortable car round town over bumps look at there's some bad bits fine one of the best if not the best riding electric cars i have been in oh actually i can see a speed up here
let's try that really good suspension in this car let's see how maneuverable it is it's not too bad for a long car you see it's got rear wheel steering as standard so the back wheels can turn in the
opposite direction of the front wheels when you're going slowly and that makes it more maneuverable when
you're going quicker the back wheels go in the same direction as the front wheels to aid high speed stability so it's not as difficult to park or turn around as you might think that's really high definition really
nice shot great cameras one other thing i want to try the brakes now electric car brakes can be a bit jerky when you first press them bit grabby they are a little bit the reason is that it goes into regen mode rather than
initial normal braking they do that on all electric cars and it's quite hard toget the balance and the feel just right
and then when you press the pedal harder you do engage the friction brakes now i couldn't tell that transition then that's actually pretty good and i suppose i would just get used to the sensitivity of the brake pedal after time it's definitely better than in a lot of electric cars i drove a mercedes eq the other day and that was a little bit jerky now let's try the regen effect to the maximum so let's put it into
full regen mode what's that like can i just drive around without having to touch the brake it's all right it's not full one pedal driving like you can get in something like a nissan leaf that will actually use the proper friction brakes to really properly stop
you there is one thing that i'm finding surprising though i'm driving past quite a lot of people and no one has looked at my car really and gone wow look at my car guys it's brand new brand new audi e-tron maybe it's this camo green color i'm just blending in will this guy look will this guy look look look nobody [ __ ] yeah there we go he looked he looked that time people look if you use the horn yeah he's a young couple wonder if they'll look this guy's going to look come on look at this beautiful new audio do you like that yeah do that
no didn't care will she look yep there we go look that's cheating in it right i'm going to pull over and check my economy i have averaged 3.7 kilometers per kilowatt hour now i need to do some maths people so bear with me
so the available battery capacity you have on this car is 85 kilowatts even though the battery pack is
93 the amount you can use is 85 kilowatts 3.7 kilometers per kilowatt so 3.7 times 85 equals 314
kilometer range turn that into old money and that translates to a real world range of 196 miles which
isn't that great is it hmm it's one of the problems with electric cars however one of my favorite things about them is their acceleration so there is one last thing to do right let's see how quick this car is to 62 miles an hour or 100 kilometers
an hour i'm going to use the special on-board timer of the car itself see what we do so left on the brake floor
the throttle let go of the brake blimey there we go to get on the brakes quickly then so i'm not breaking the
speed limit not to 100 kilometers an hour in three seconds dead three seconds it's quick you know what i'm gonna try that again
because i can we're gonna do this time
oh look at here exact same time three seconds dead let's go again here we go three two one there's a theme here not to 62 miles an hour three seconds dead i think you'll find howdy says it'll d it in 3.3 seconds they're clearly lying that's good lying it's german lying that's how they usually lie about times the germans if it was italian it'd be the other way around they'd be good oh yeah then 2.5 never does all americans with the teslas and stuff they usually do the same thing germans don't germans like to understate so then what's my final verdict on the new audi etron gt should you avoid it should you consider it should you shortlist it or should you just go right ahead and buy it well i reckon you should shortlist the e-tron gt it is a lovely electric car that's great to drive lovely to look at beautiful inside but it doesn't quite have the range to match a tesla model S hey if you enjoyed the video please give it a like also let me know if any other Blog you'd like me to do in the comments below
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