Audi S e-tron GT Review 2025

Performance 

You now have three choices when it comes to buying an e-tron GT, and none of them are what you’d call slow. Both use an electric motor at each axle for four-wheel drive, allowing the car to wear the hallowed Quattro badges that’ve adorned Audis for over 40 years now. The base e-tron GT S is unlike any other base spec car you’ve ever heard of – its core power is now 584bhp, but it’ll boost to 671bhp for a few seconds of hard acceleration, give it a 0-62 time of just 3.4 seconds. It’s supercar pace.  

Then there’s the RS e-tron GT, from the same department responsible for the mighty RS6 estate and R8 coupe. Its core power is 764bhp but its boost figure a borderline unhinged 845bhp, for a 0-62 time of 3.1 seconds. And if that isn’t loopy enough for you, the new Performance model chimes in with 831bhp in everyday driving and 912bhp in launch mode. Bonkers. 

Despite having ‘just’ 584bhp, the S model feels perfectly rapid enough. Find a safe and legal place to execute a launch control start and your brain will be discombobulated for hours. Perhaps more crucially, though, its mid-range power – the bursts of acceleration you’ll use in cut and thrust traffic or merging from slip roads – is just as prodigious. This is a truly a very quick car - even in base trim. 

Drive 

Audi pitches the e-tron as a GT car rather than a sports car and it does a very good job of making journeys relaxing. So while the performance is equivalent to much more agile sports cars, the driving experience is actually hushed and comfortable. There are the obligatory driving modes or course, and in ‘Comfort’ or ‘Efficiency’ the e-tron feels at its most natural. The ‘Dynamic’ mode doesn’t quite unleash hell, but it does make the car’s steering and throttle responses more urgent and firms up the suspension too.  

Whether you’ll use it often depends on how you drive, but we suspect even the keenest of drivers won’t take the long way round in their GT very often. That’s not to say it doesn’t handle – quite the opposite, the Quattro system ensures of that – it’s just that it’s not as overtly sporty as the Taycan and if you carry too much speed into a corner, the weight of the GT starts to make itself felt, even though the centre of gravity is nearly at floor level. But a touch of the brakes brings back your confidence as they bring the speed down effortlessly. 

The facelifted model introduces a new twin-chamber, two valve air suspension set up that does a fine job of smoothing out the ride. It also comes with the added bonus of being able to alter the ride height - very handy if your commute is strewn with speed bumps.