Audi confirms e-tron production plans

Audi has unveiled yet another version of its e-tron leccy über coupé at the Detroit Motor Show. But, unlike previous designs, has slapped a production date onto its bonnet. Audi_etron_02 Audi's latest e-tron design will go into production in 2012 Set to hit production lines in 2012, the new e-tron functions much like …

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What a beatuy

NOT.

[Ralph B]

Senseless Hi-tech?

Does using an camera+display really make a sensible replacement for a door mirror? Sure you save a little on aerodynamic efficiency, but you lose on running the thing (and producing it) and I really wonder if you can actually see what's behind you when the display is in sunshine.

A daft hi-tech solution just for the sake of it.

[Gulfie]

Me Likeee

as my co-driver in DiRT keeps saying. I want one!

[Alex-TheManfromUncle]

I've seen something like this before...

Barnet of an R8, ass of an Aston.

Looks good though .. not sure about the colours for the interiors...

Yeah, I'd have one

[Quxy]

Speed limiter?

What's the point of the 200 km/h speed limiter, I wonder. The R8 certainly doesn't have one ;-)

[John Smith 19]

Squinty headlights look like Alfa

A design I'm not keen on.

[Dick Emery]

Until

They have a charger at every station that only takes a few minutes to top up I'm not sold on the technology. Plus it ain't gonna be cheap.

[Anonymous Coward]

Nice, but short range

Quite a nice design compared to some of the more vulgar cars Audi have put out in the past few years. It looks like a "serious" car in all but range - once Audi can reach at least 400 miles, then we'll talk.

Oh, and those wing-mirror cams better be military grade, 'cause local p*ss heads are going to have them off in seconds otherwise.

[Phaedrus]

@Ralph B

As with most things in the auto-industry, the camera mirrors would be an expensive optional extra.

Prices from £35,999 (model shown Ultra-GTi-Exec-Plus model, from £139,999)

(and no, my pricing isn't based on any facts, just a random example plucked out of thin, frosty, cold air)

[Sarah Davis]

that looks lush, but,...

it's SOOOO environmentally UNfriendly due to the manufacture/disposal of the batteries that only a complete bastard would buy one - ie, it's pointless!!

[SillyMan]

An unfortunate name...

I'm afraid this model won't be too popular in France and part of Canada... I for one wouldn't want to brag to anybody that I'm driving an "étron"...

[Nexox Enigma]

Rather large intake...

What do they need that large intake at the front for? Do they need a radiator for cooling, or do they just think it look nifty?

Also I imagine that the camera/mirrors are an auto show-only 'feature.'

[TeeCee]

Intake?

'Leccy motors need cooling too you know, also the airco will need a condenser. The whole lot probably doesn't need to be *that* big, but I suspect that preserving the corporate nose design dictates the size.

I'm more interested in the return of the Austin Allegro steering wheel. I wonder if it'll be greeted with something other than howls of derision this time round?

[Francis Boyle]

That is one ugly

front end. Looks more like a back end. The rest of it ain't too bad but I really can't see Gene Hunt hooning around in one.