REVIEW: For around £82k, you could step up to Audi's SQ6 E-tron - we drive a prototype to find out if it offers anything special over the standard car
Where the SQ8 E-tron has a unique tri-motor arrangement – one at the front and two at the rear – the new but retuned for extra punch, to the tune of 510bhp.
The latest iteration of Ingolstadt's Quattro four-wheel drive system has been tuned to send the bulk of its power rearward in ‘dynamic’ driving situations in the mid-range . The results are cornering and accelerative behaviour that feel at least tangibly different from what we’ve come to know of all-paw Audis, if not immediately enhanced – although increased exposure will help us arrive at a definitive conclusion either way.
Even with the caveat that our experience of the SQ6 E-tron was strictly speed- and time-limited, the migration of power from front to rear was just about discernible, and the renewed contribution of the front axle upon corner exit was tangible, too - with a brief application of the throttle enough to return the wheel to centre as the road straightened.
Drivetrain developers have worked closely in step with their chassis-fettling counterparts, with a view to engineering a cohesive and feelsome connection between hand and hard-top - and here, too, can you sense the fruits of their labour. There is a subtle viscosity off-centre that lends more of a perceptible sense of steering connection than we’re familiar with from Audis of late – particularly in full-bore Dynamic mode.
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