Audi will revive the A2 name after a break of greater than 20 years later this yr as an electric crossover that can evoke the spirit of the unique supermini.
The German agency officially confirmed the revival of the A2, beforehand reported by Autocar, at its annual media convention, the place it additionally confirmed a preview picture of the new automobile for the primary time (beneath), forward of its unveiling this autumn.
The new EV, to be made in Audi’s Ingolstadt hometown, will function an oblique alternative for the soon-to-be-discontinued A1 and Q2 on the backside of Audi’s line-up. Pricing is tipped to start out from underneath £30,000.
CEO Gernot Döllner mentioned the new A2 comes as a part of a method to make the Audi EV line-up accessible to a wider market: “We’ve listened. Our clients need electric mobility that impresses in on a regular basis life.
“The A2 E-tron is our promise to deliver exactly that: efficient, compact and confident. We’re making entry into the electric Audi world easier and more relevant than ever.”
The A2 will probably be based mostly on the Volkswagen Group’s MEB EV platform and will probably be shut in measurement and specification to the Volkswagen ID 3 hatchback.
However, as spy photographs of check mules present, it can have extra of a crossover-influenced design, with some MPV components, giving it a profile that carefully resembles that of the unique A2, which was produced from 1999 till 2005.
“It’s a highly efficient entry-level car into the Audi universe, and positioned within the core of the A-segment [Audi’s term for A3/Q3-sized models],” mentioned Döllner. “It’s compact on the outside, yet very spacious on the inside. We’ll inform on price positioning at the given time ahead of launch, but it’s going to be our electric entry-level car, so it will be below what we’ve offered so far on electric cars in the Audi universe.”
Inside Audi, the new A2 is seen as an oblique successor to that seminal supermini, which majored on effectivity due to a light-weight aluminium structure and a slippery one-box bodystyle.
It’s understood that the same form of the new automobile was pushed by the same push for aerodynamic effectivity.
Audi mentioned the redeployment of the A2 name is a “deliberate nod” to the EV’s Nineteen Nineties forebear and pledged that the new automobile will proceed the “mission” of the unique.
