Audi RS E-tron GT

[Jobsworth]

Or Taycan in a frock. I had a bit of time with one of these today. Would I buy one? No, not really. I was going to say I would if it was £50k instead of £120k, but having thought about it some more I wouldn’t, even at £50k.
Initial impressions, the cabin is quite nice. Quality materials, excellent fit and finish. Like most electric cars the torque delivery is instant which hurts your neck, and gives the illusion of being very fast. I looked up the stats. It’s about 600bhp and 830Nm. My remapped C63 is 593 and 944. Crucially the Audi weighs 2500kg, and that’s where it all went off the page for me. If you tip it into a corner the weight is all low down and it feels quite flat with very little body roll. If you try to throw it through a complex like a quick left then right it all quickly becomes undone. There’s a little humpback railway bridge near me, and 50mph will have a car go light and come back down in a nice test of bump and rebound damping. The Audi fair crashed onto it’s bump stops and I thought it was going to smash right through them and slap it’s belly onto the road. Over coffee afterwards someone said “you can cook a fillet steak in a microwave, but why would you?”. Sums it up for me. Some pics…

 

[markjay]

I have an IONIQ 5, and at 1.9t it does not like to be thrawn around corners. When driving it, I think I'm driving an L200 and I have no problems

So yes, if you want a sporty nimble car that also has the range, EVs are definitely not quite there yet.

I wonder if there's a market for super-fast EVs with small batteries that could run rings around a C63 etc.... Probably not, just as the Ariel Atom had limited appeal off the race circuit.

 

[Red C220]

We had a pair of Taycans, mine was the Cross Turismo and I added the rear wheel steer, my business partner went for the saloon and didn't go with RWS. The difference was huge. Both 4S models. £110K OTR each with options.

I think the Audi GT is the equivalent of the Taycan Turbo.

As an exercise in engineering they are astonishing. We sold ours back to Porsche as over a combined 10 months of ownership of the two cars they were on the road for 4 months. I actually managed just under 300 miles in the 4 months I owned mine.

Porsche simply don't have the infrastructure to support this particular product when they need repair or maintenance. Most of the delay wasn't waiting for parts they were simply sat in a queue waiting for the lone technician that had been trained to deal with them.

My first and last experience of owning a Porsche. Never have been a fan of their products and sadly this experience did little to change my mind.

What really grated was the ambivalence when a problem cropped up. My business partners car threw a wobbly and the dash lit up like a Christmas tree in red "do not drive contact your dealer" etc etc. No amount of Ctrl alt Del reboots cleared it. He rang the dealer....."We can get you in 6 weeks if you don't want a courtesy car or three months if you do"....

With the problems I was having with mine at the time the next phone call was to their buyer to come and collect both of them.

They were both sold on at over list within 24 hours of being advertised.

 

[Darrell]

Or Taycan in a frock. I had a bit of time with one of these today. Would I buy one? No, not really. I was going to say I would if it was £50k instead of £120k, but having thought about it some more I wouldn’t, even at £50k.
Initial impressions, the cabin is quite nice. Quality materials, excellent fit and finish. Like most electric cars the torque delivery is instant which hurts your neck, and gives the illusion of being very fast. I looked up the stats. It’s about 600bhp and 830Nm. My remapped C63 is 593 and 944. Crucially the Audi weighs 2500kg, and that’s where it all went off the page for me. If you tip it into a corner the weight is all low down and it feels quite flat with very little body roll. If you try to throw it through a complex like a quick left then right it all quickly becomes undone. There’s a little humpback railway bridge near me, and 50mph will have a car go light and come back down in a nice test of bump and rebound damping. The Audi fair crashed onto it’s bump stops and I thought it was going to smash right through them and slap it’s belly onto the road. Over coffee afterwards someone said “you can cook a fillet steak in a microwave, but why would you?”. Sums it up for me. Some pics…

So it’s a good looking car that doesn’t like being driven like it was stolen which means you won’t buy one?

 

[AMGeed]

Audi make some great looking cars but the driving experience seems to let them down from what I've read.
This EV seems no different.

 

[Jobsworth]

So it’s a good looking car that doesn’t like being driven like it was stolen which means you won’t buy one?

I didn’t drive it like I stole it. I drive with mechanical sympathy, even on the track. Smooth is fast. This is a car sold as a performance machine. It doesn’t meet with my expectations of a performance car. Most of the shortcomings are weight related. The rest is pretty good. Not good enough for me though

 

[Jobsworth]

This is drive-it-like-you-stole-it.
People actually let this guy drive their cars while they sit in the passenger seat. Around tge Nürburgring. You can see the owner urging him to change from 5th to 6th, but he doesn’t. The car has passed the peak power at that point, so keeping it near the redline like that is pointless and sustained high revs is not conducive to long engine life.

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