Audi launched a new naming technique in 2023 to raised differentiate between fashions geared up with internal-combustion engines and people powered purely by batteries.
Underneath the technique, fashions with fuel or diesel engines, together with hybrids, had been to make use of an odd quantity of their names, whereas EVs would use a fair quantity.
Nevertheless, on Monday, Audi introduced it was abandoning this method following suggestions from clients and dealerships. As a substitute, the automaker will revert to its unique naming technique, wherein the quantity within the identify displays solely the mannequin’s measurement or place within the lineup.
“This choice is the results of intensive discussions and follows the needs of our clients, in addition to suggestions from our worldwide sellers,” Marco Schubert, Audi’s head of gross sales and advertising, stated in an announcement. “We select the names of our fashions in a means that reveals measurement and positioning at first look.”
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Consequently, some electrical fashions will share names with fuel or diesel counterparts. To distinguish between powertrains, Audi will proceed utilizing present labels, corresponding to E-Tron for EVs and TDI for diesels. For instance, the gas-powered Q8 and the absolutely electrical Q8 E-Tron will coexist below this technique.
Attributable to this transformation, Audi will unveil a brand new A6 with an internal-combustion engine on March 4. The mannequin was beforehand set to be badged as an A7.
The brand new A6 will likely be provided as a sedan, distinguishing it from the A6 E-Tron launched for the 2025 mannequin 12 months, which is obtainable as a liftback—referred to by Audi as a Sportback. Each fashions may also supply wagon variants, relying available on the market, a physique type Audi refers to as an Avant.
