Audi confirms new A2 and Q9 models to bookend range, both due later in 2026

Audi is making correct on contemporary guarantees to adopt “China tempo” in its product constructing
processes, with chief executive officer Gernot Döllner this day confirming the designate will launch
two contemporary devices later in 2026 to bookend its differ.

These two contemporary devices — the Q9 higher-immense SUV, and the A2 electrical minute car — will gaze
Audi respectively enter and re-enter market segments that it for the time being would now not play in.

“With the contemporary A2 and Q9, we are deliberately defining the boundaries of our portfolio. This
enables us to contemporary our customers with a clear differ of choices,” talked about Döllner.

The pair are centered at assorted facets of the Audi universe, with the with out notice developed A2
venture aimed at giving the four-ringed designate an entry into Europe’s burgeoning premium
minute EV class.

Original Audi A2 with out notice developed on MEB platform as most practical EV mannequin but

“With the A2 e-tron, we are bringing a highly efficient entry level into electrical mobility to
market in fall 2026 [spring 2026 in Australia] — a transparent statement on efficiency,” Döllner told
media all through Audi’s annual convention.

Australia by no technique purchased the main Audi A2 (1999-2005). Designed by Luc Donckerwolke — now
of the Hyundai neighborhood — the A2 change into highly advanced for its time. It weighed factual 895kg in
most traditional assemble attributable to its aluminium residence frame constructing.

That change into correct ample to ranking the A2 the main car ever sold in Europe with a diesel engine
handing over first payment gas financial system of lower than 3L/100km.

Whereas the contemporary A2 is in accordance with a less exotic platform — the Volkswagen Crew’s rear-pressure
MEB structure acquainted from vehicles just like the Skoda Enyaq and VW ID4 — Audi boss Döllner
says the level of interest is as soon as extra on gorgeous vitality efficiency.

“We’ve listened — our customers need electrical mobility that impresses…the A2 e-tron is our
promise to raise precisely that: efficient, compact, and assured,” he told media.

Specifics like dimensions and pricing were now not released this day, but Audi executives confirmed
the A2 will undercut the payment of the designate’s contemporary least costly EV, the Q4 midsize SUV, that
begins from 46,000 euros in Germany ($74,000).

The A2 will doubtless be a extra refined car than the Volkswagen Crew’s factual ‘starter pack’ EVs like
the VW ID Polo and Cupra Raval, that are front-wheel pressure and utilize a extra traditional platform.
There may be of enterprise the A2 will ranking its technique to Australia, but no first payment note has been purchased
but.

X7-rivalling Audi Q9 SUV to be designate’s contemporary flagship mannequin, changing A8 sedan

Meanwhile, the contemporary Audi Q9 shall be the designate’s flagship, finally giving Audi the if truth be told higher-
size immense SUV that it has prolonged wanted to take care of the BMW X7 and Mercedes-Benz GLS in
markets that quiz of unprecedented crossovers.

That primarily technique the US, the attach the Q9 will also give Audi sellers a grand-
demanded rival to the local heroes just like the Cadillac Escalade and Lincoln Navigator.
The Q9 successfully replaces the A8 immense luxurious sedan, which has been discontinued.

In Australia, quiz of for the largest luxurious SUVs is now not as salvage because the segment below. In
2025, rival BMW sold 3673 examples of the X5 but excellent 1125 X7s, whereas Mercedes-Benz shifted
2530 GLE immense SUVs and factual 685 devices of the greater GLS.

Silent, request to gaze the combustion-powered Q9 ranking an look in Australia, with the
most difficult Audi crossover tipped to be on hand—in some markets—with a V8 engine.

Given Australia’s strict Original Automobile Effectivity Well-liked (NVES) regulations, although, request a trot-in
hybrid model of the Q9 to be section of the panorama.