2020 Geneva MotorShow - Audi
Audi A3
- Audi is presenting at the Geneva Motor Show 2020 the new generation of the Audi A3 (C-segment sedan) which is based on the MQB platform and equipped with the engines from the C-segment range of VW group’s sedans, namely the Volkswagen Golf, Seat Leon and Skoda Octavia. It is also equipped with a plug-in hybrid engine (PHEV) which was already available on the previous Audi A3 and which is available on the new Volkswagen Golf.
- The new Audi A3 will still be produced at the Ingolstadt (Germany) plant, but as for the Golf, it will no longer be available in a 3-door version.
- It was however in a 3-door version that the first Audi A3 was launched in 1996.
Audi E-Tron Sportback
- the Audi E-Tron produced in Belgium in the plant of Forest (Brussels) started at a low production rate, as its sales has not exceed 20,000 units in 2019 while the carmaker’s target was set at 45,000 units per year.
- Pour relancer la carrière de l’Audi E-Tron, le constructeurprésenteune nouvelle version coupé (appeléeSportback) qui s’ajoutera au E-Tronactuel.
- The carmaker has announced a new coupe version (named Sportback) that will be added to the current E-Tron. Audi hopes to double the sales volume of E-Tron with two different bodies.
- The new E-TronSportback has the same technical characteristics as the standard E-Tron and will be produced in the same Belgian plant in Forest, at a rate of 20,000 to 25,000 units per year according to Inovev.
- As a reminder, the Audi E-Tron use the MLB platform and not yet the SEM platforms used on the Volkswagen ID.
