Audi is gearing up for the reveal of the brand new A2 this autumn – and a prototype has now shed nearly all of its camouflage, revealing a powerful resemblance to its ancestor.
The electrical crossover will evoke the spirit of the supermini in each operate and kind, as Audi revives the title after a two-decade hiatus.
The German agency formally confirmed the revival of the A2 at its annual media convention in March.
The brand new pictures showcase the automotive’s lozenge-like roofline and tapered rear flanks, defining options of the unique.
The brand new EV, to be made in Audi’s Ingolstadt hometown, will function an oblique substitute for the soon-to-be-discontinued A1 and Q2 on the backside of its line-up. Pricing is tipped to begin from underneath £30,000.
CEO Gernot Döllner mentioned the brand new A2 comes as a part of a technique to make the Audi EV line-up accessible to a wider market: “We’ve listened. Our clients need electrical mobility that impresses in on a regular basis life.
“The A2 E-tron is our promise to ship precisely that: environment friendly, compact and assured. We’re making entry into the electrical Audi world simpler and extra related than ever.”
The brand new A2 will likely be primarily based on the Volkswagen Group’s MEB EV platform and can subsequently be shut in dimension and specification to the Volkswagen ID 3 hatchback.
“It’s a extremely environment friendly entry-level automotive into the Audi universe and positioned throughout the core of the A-segment [Audi’s term for A3/Q3-sized models],” mentioned Döllner.
“It’s compact on the surface but very spacious on the within.
“We’ll inform on worth positioning on the given time forward of launch, nevertheless it’s going to be our electrical entry-level automotive, so will probably be beneath what we’ve provided to this point on electrical vehicles within the Audi universe.”
Inside Audi, the brand new A2 is seen as an oblique successor to the corporate’s 1999 supermini, which majored on effectivity because of a light-weight aluminium structure and a slippery one-box bodystyle.
