The Audi A6 Thread

The Top Gear estate car of the year is... the Audi A6 Avant

Because everyone knows estates are much cooler than SUVs

Estates are cooler than SUVs... it’s a fact. Every bit as spacious, better looking and slipperier. They work with physics, rather than fighting against it because they are cars enlarged in the horizontal, not vertical, and no estate demonstrates this more clearly than the Audi A6 Avant – the most relentlessly capable wagon launched in the past 12 months.

We live in a choicy era. You want some butter? Salted or not? Spreadable? Low fat? Plant based? Clarified? And so the A6 follows the zeitgeist – whether you’re an EV believer or prefer petrol, diesel or hybrid, there’s a version for you, and because the e-tron is spun off a totally different (PPE) platform from the combustion models there’s very little compromise whichever way you lean.

The Avant has a range of up to 437 miles (or up to 463 in the Sportback), all versions deliver a massive boot and (assuming liberal access to rapid chargers) huge distance devouring ability.

OK, so the digital wing mirrors should come slapped with a health hazard sticker, but the rest is near perfection for a family hauler.

 
The only car you really need? This is the new, widebody Audi A6 Allroad

You don’t need that big SUV, just one of these. Right?

Audi’s Allroad cars have long been the cooler offerings from its range, via reasons not really that complex. Basically, ‘not being a massive SUV’. And so we come to the fifth generation of the actually still quite massive A6 Allroad.

That’s because for the first time, Audi’s given it a ‘widebody’ for reasons not really that complex. Basically, being “more powerful” and more “striking” than the puny A6 Avant it takes its base from. It’s a full 11cm wider than that car.

It’s also 34mm higher, thanks to Allroad-specific adaptive air suspension, which is the real clincher here. And wider tyres. And better all-wheel steering, body cladding and lots more Audi-ness thrown in. Looks… like a modern Audi, too. Teethy. Angry. Lean. Good stance on this car.

It’ll come with the option of a 2.0-litre turbo petrol four-pot matched to an electric motor for totals of 362bhp/369lb ft, a 0-62mph time of 5.5s and top speed of 155mph. There’s also up to 59 miles of electric-only propulsion, which is a decent slug of e-range from a hybrid. No doubt the big 25.9kWh battery helps.

 
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