Audi E-tron GT long-term test: report 8

The car Audi E-tron GT quattro Run by Steve Huntingford, editor

Why it’s here To see if Audi's electric performance car can also be a good everyday car

Needs to Combine the thrilling drive you’d expect with a level of comfort and usability you might not

Mileage 4706 List price £88,605 Best price £69,995 Price as tested £92,700 Test range 334 miles Official range 383 miles

23 April 2026 – Second opinion

I recently spent a couple of weeks on holiday in Japan, which was great. But I obviously couldn’t take my Audi E-tron GT with me, and it felt criminal to leave it parked up, unused, for so long. So, I instead asked if anyone from the What Car? team would like to borrow it, and sub-editor Chris Haining was the quickest to get his hand up.

So, what did Chris make of it? Well, for the rest of this report, I’ll leave you with his thoughts:

“On the face of it, this is pretty much my perfect car, and would make an ideal partner to my wife’s BMW i3 if we were to convert to an all-electric fleet.

“For starters, I think the E-tron GT is one of the most attractive cars on the road today, with its low stance, muscular bulges and suggestively sculpted hips and shoulders. It looks powerful, expensive and, dare I say it, prettier than its mechanical sister, the Porsche Taycan.

“It lives up to those sporty looks, too, with enough grunt to make the V8 petrol engine in my beloved old BMW 540i feel a bit feeble.

“And yet, despite its clear statement of ‘I’m a cutting edge electric performance car’ on the outside, the E-tron GT is more grounded inside than you might expect; there’s no incomprehensible starship dashboard here.

“What you do get is a dedicated button that switches the infotainment screen off altogether with a single press, for those times late at night when you want to minimise visual distraction as far as possible.

“And, wonder of wonders, below the screen is a strip of physical switches and LED displays for the climate control system and heated seats. This is a common-sense treat that provides at-a-glance, muscle-memory operation that buyers of the A6 e-tron saloon and Q6 e-tron SUV are denied; in those models, the touchscreen is responsible for temperature and fan adjustments.

“It doesn’t take long, either, before you find even more common sense solutions at play with the E-tron GT. For example, the fact that there’s a 7kW AC charging socket on either side of the car is a real boon, enabling me to drive nose-in or reverse into my driveway as suits the moment, without having to risk draping a scratchy cable over that lustrous paintwork.

“There’s just one seemingly inexplicable and mean-spirited decision that might put me off: in entry-level guise, this near-£90,000 car has no lumbar support adjustment, even as an option. And, as a result, it doesn’t take long before I start to feel twinges in my (admittedly unusually long) back.

“The omission of lumbar adjustment is even harder to understand when you consider that in every other respect this car is a true GT; it positively devoured my 234-mile round trip to work and back, completing it with an indicated 100 miles of range remaining.

“Happily, then, I found by back pain was largely alleviated by positioning a tightly rolled jacket at the base of the seat, even if it's a solution that’s not exactly in keeping with the car’s otherwise slick presentation.”

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