Audi To Build Electric e-tron Gran Turismo in 2020

By Chris Chase

Mar 15, 2018

Summary

Electric buzz

Audi has announced it is working on an all-electric GT that will go on sale in 2020 as a new flagship for the brand's sports car range.

The German automaker revealed the plan at its annual press conference, held today at its Ingolstadt headquarters.

Accompanying the news was a sketch showing a long, low car that, despite the exaggerated proportions typical of concepts and prototypes, doesn't look entirely outlandish. Some speculation suggests the forthcoming EV could replace the R8 atop the brand's car range; the rendering shows what looks, to our eyes, like a four-door coupe.

Audi board chair Rupert Stadler called the new GT car "how we will take our high-performance Audi Sport brand into the future." Audi has revealed no technical details about the vehicle, but said it will be built at the company's Böllinger Höfe factory, located about two hours' drive west of Ingolstadt.

Along with the Porsche Mission E, a four-door Audi sports car points to Germany getting serious about unseating Tesla in the high-performance EV class.

Meet the Author

As a child, Chris spent most of his time playing with toy cars in his parents’ basement or making car sounds while riding his bicycle. Now he's an award-winning Algonquin College Journalism grad who has been playing with real cars that make their own noises since the early 2000s.