'not A Tt, Not An R8': Audi's New Electric Sports Car To Be Revealed In September

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Audi forced america to say goodbye to nan TT astatine nan extremity of 2023 and nan R8 successful early 2024, and while coupes aren't precisely large sellers these days, sidesplitting them disconnected near Audi without a sports car of immoderate benignant successful its lineup. So is that it? Is Audi done pinch two-door cars? Nope, not astatine all. Instead, its coupes are going electric, with Car and Driver reporting that Audi CEO Gernot Döllner told nan German newspaper Bild that we'll spot a caller electrical sports car conception successful September, conscionable earlier nan Munich centrifugal show.

So, will nan conception beryllium a caller Audi TT? Or will it beryllium a caller R8? According to Döllner, it won't really beryllium either. Instead, nan caller electrical sports car sounds for illustration it will beryllium a spot of a replacement for both, with Döllner telling Bild it will be "a highly affectional sports car — not a TT, not an R8, but thing successful between." Considering it won't beryllium beforehand aliases mid-engine and will alternatively beryllium an EV, that's astir apt a bully thing. Carrying a sanction complete would astir apt beryllium bully for recognition, but astatine nan aforesaid time, it makes consciousness to springiness nan caller electrical sports car an personality of its own.

While nan car we spot successful September will officially beryllium a concept, Döllner confirmed it's headed for production, saying plainly, "the car will beryllium built." Just don't look for Audi's electrical sports car to spell connected waste immediately. Instead, it will reportedly statesman arriving astatine dealerships successful astir 2 years. Odds are, it'll astatine slightest stock a level pinch Porsche's upcoming electrical replacement for nan 718 Boxster and Cayman, a task that reportedly isn't going truthful well, truthful nan two-year hold whitethorn beryllium basal to activity retired each nan kinks earlier customers get their grubby small paws connected it.

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While Döllner didn't uncover galore specifications connected nan caller car, including what it will beryllium called, Car and Driver says it expects nan upcoming conception to besides show disconnected a caller creation connection and interior, on pinch respective caller tech features. We'll reportedly spot that creation connection successful early Audis, too, truthful you'd amended dream you for illustration nan caller look. If not, you're going to dislike beautiful overmuch each caller Audi you spot complete nan adjacent decade aliases so. Maybe it will look for illustration the 2021 Skysphere concept shown here, aliases possibly not, but, personally, I wouldn't kick if it did. This point looks rad arsenic hell.

Regardless of what nan conception really looks like, though, Döllner admitted Audi's struggled successful caller years and needs a "TT Moment 2.0" to get backmost connected track. He besides called nan upcoming car "an personality builder" and told Bild, "I don't want to hit astir nan bush; we person to get backmost connected way now." Those are surely nan correct things to say, considering really difficult it is to warrant buying immoderate Audi different than possibly the caller Q6 E-Tron over its competitors. Still, whether aliases not Audi will really beryllium successful astatine nan full "get backmost connected track" point remains to beryllium seen. 

Either way, though, we've sewage a cool caller conception pinch accumulation intent to look guardant to. And for amended aliases worse, successful a small complete a month, we'll person a overmuch amended thought of nan guidance Audi's headed.