1 00:00:00,130 --> 00:00:04,540 - Today we have the Audi e-tron Sportback. And the first thing about this thing, 2 00:00:04,540 --> 00:00:10,062 Oh my God it's massive, look at this. (upbeat music) 3 00:00:17,564 --> 00:00:22,490 I thought it was kind of just like a wagon, but no it is proper big. 4 00:00:22,490 --> 00:00:26,090 Now you can get the SUV version and that's comes, you know, 5 00:00:26,090 --> 00:00:30,470 it's higher in the back, it gives you a bit more room, but the Sports back, it drops down 6 00:00:30,470 --> 00:00:35,390 and I think it looks fantastic. Now you do get looks in this car, 7 00:00:35,390 --> 00:00:38,420 but not by you'd expect in the Porsche everyone looks at it 8 00:00:38,420 --> 00:00:42,610 everyone loves it in my like fun colored golf. Kids think it's awesome. 9 00:00:42,610 --> 00:00:46,910 And this right here, it's like retired women that are rich. 10 00:00:46,910 --> 00:00:51,640 They see this thing go past and they're like, yeah, I can dig that. If you want to set some Cougar traps, 11 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:57,940 this is the car to have, it says a ground up electric SUV, but there are a lot of like electric car things that it just 12 00:00:57,940 --> 00:01:02,500 doesn't really have. So right here, you can have another charging port on this side. 13 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:06,030 We'll come around, come on, Andy, you have your charging port on this side, 14 00:01:06,030 --> 00:01:09,079 this right here gets you 150 kilowatts of charging. 15 00:01:09,079 --> 00:01:12,870 Given the battery's massive, it still does take some time to give it all the juice. 16 00:01:12,870 --> 00:01:17,130 But if you have a charger at your house, you're going to be fine. 350 kilometers of range. 17 00:01:17,130 --> 00:01:21,940 That's like really quite good. Normally an electric car when you get in, you expect to just start. 18 00:01:21,940 --> 00:01:28,200 Whereas this one you'd have to press the start button and another thing that's kind of weird and old school. 19 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:34,120 So you don't get a frunk, instead You get like a half frunk, I guess this is all it is. 20 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:37,690 it is where they store Okay, it's fine. 21 00:01:37,690 --> 00:01:42,100 This is where they store the charging cable. You do get a high voltage one out of the box. 22 00:01:42,100 --> 00:01:45,010 Very nice. Some of them charge extra for that. 23 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:50,140 It just doesn't feel great. Oh, well that doesn't really take away from 24 00:01:50,140 --> 00:01:55,700 the experience of driving or owning this thing. The side profile here is what you're paying for though. 25 00:01:55,700 --> 00:01:59,130 Like this swooping back. Well, if you think that model X's are boring, 26 00:01:59,130 --> 00:02:02,333 this is what you get. All of those do have the gull wing doors. Those are pretty sick, 27 00:02:02,333 --> 00:02:07,810 different kinds of trade-offs just to give you an idea of how heavy and just generally massive 28 00:02:07,810 --> 00:02:10,880 this thing is, these are 21 inch rims. 29 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:15,970 Look at how much tire there still is here. There's what 265/45 30 00:02:15,970 --> 00:02:19,160 R 21s. Freaking massive, 31 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:22,633 also this paint rate here is 600 bucks. Like I said before, 32 00:02:22,633 --> 00:02:27,070 you are losing some trunk space by having the sport back, it comes down, it looks sexy, 33 00:02:27,070 --> 00:02:31,363 but there is still loads of space in here. Like if you want to stash a body. 34 00:02:32,650 --> 00:02:37,050 Easy, done. No one was suspected either mall bosses. 35 00:02:37,050 --> 00:02:41,800 Invest in these hopefully have appeal. You still have this on your car, Andy. 36 00:02:43,890 --> 00:02:47,700 Oh, wow. Look at how shiny that is. 37 00:02:47,700 --> 00:02:51,113 How long do you think this shiny thing is going to stay shiny, Andy? 38 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,530 - Anyway. Under the trunk here, you get a spare tire. 39 00:02:55,530 --> 00:02:59,910 Love to see it, a lot of them only have the repair kits. I'm not a fan. Do have to blow this one up, 40 00:02:59,910 --> 00:03:03,220 but whatever. And a good bit of space down here for whatever you want. 41 00:03:03,220 --> 00:03:06,540 I like stuffing frozen goods down there. So it doesn't get hot in the sun, 42 00:03:06,540 --> 00:03:10,493 or you can get another person in there. You might have chop them up a bit, does this come out? 43 00:03:11,790 --> 00:03:16,280 What's this? - Wheel locks? Oh yeah, there you go. 44 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:18,683 Of course you can also fold the seats down flat. 45 00:03:19,540 --> 00:03:23,200 I guess you kind of have to go all the way around to do 46 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:29,870 that, but it works. popping in the back, this is rather comfortable. 47 00:03:29,870 --> 00:03:36,070 It's my first time back here, it's quite nice actually. We have the cup holders only small ones though. 48 00:03:36,070 --> 00:03:39,090 Oops. Did we get dual climate for the back? 49 00:03:39,090 --> 00:03:43,790 This is the best of your climate control I've ever seen. Yeah, also heated rear seats, very nice. 50 00:03:43,790 --> 00:03:47,320 Down here, we have two type C ports down at the bottom 51 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:49,563 and privacy screens. 52 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:55,910 Cool. This of course is where you plan on spending 53 00:03:55,910 --> 00:03:59,410 most of your time probably heard that there, 54 00:03:59,410 --> 00:04:05,770 there is enough space for an LTT water bottle to go in the door, but there's no lining inside of it. 55 00:04:05,770 --> 00:04:10,650 So it rattles around and makes quite a racket. It's annoying. I have felt liners in my goal. 56 00:04:10,650 --> 00:04:16,720 Why don't they have it here? Come on badge. The level of comfort in here overall is quite good. 57 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:23,210 These seats are incredibly comfortable, heated and vented loved the venting very hot here right now. 58 00:04:23,210 --> 00:04:28,020 My only complaint really is that the armrest on the door here doesn't extend far enough back. 59 00:04:28,020 --> 00:04:33,050 So I kind of have to bring the seat further forward than I would like so that I can hit this. 60 00:04:33,050 --> 00:04:37,760 I really wish they had just brought it over onto the B pillar and had just a little bit here as well. 61 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:39,910 And then I could be a lot more comfortable. 62 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:45,680 Yeah. Tall people problems. My biggest concern about this car was the touchscreen 63 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:48,780 down below, and at first it was pretty bad, 64 00:04:48,780 --> 00:04:52,500 but it turns out that on both of these, they come with haptic feedback enabled, 65 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:58,890 turn that off works great. So you can swipe here, do pretty large amounts of temperature in one easy go. 66 00:04:58,890 --> 00:05:01,890 All of these are pretty clear, easy to see, 67 00:05:01,890 --> 00:05:06,840 easy to hit while you're driving. I have no real complaints. I'm pretty surprised, honestly. 68 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:10,580 How did Porsche screw theirs up so bad guys just steal it from Audi. 69 00:05:10,580 --> 00:05:15,840 They haven't given you much for buttons in here, but they did give you the ones that are important. 70 00:05:15,840 --> 00:05:19,740 So you have a volume knob next song, last song. 71 00:05:19,740 --> 00:05:25,420 And almost most importantly for me, a hard button for enabling and disabling the parking thing. 72 00:05:25,420 --> 00:05:29,200 So it can be so annoying at times when it just starts 73 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:32,650 beeping at you and you're looking at a drive-thru or something you're like, shut up car. 74 00:05:32,650 --> 00:05:37,710 You can just press that and turn it off. Wicked. Also the 360 camera and the parking stuff 75 00:05:37,710 --> 00:05:41,040 works really great. Awesome to have in a car that's this big. 76 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:44,663 For the steering wheel, it feels really great, but we do have, 77 00:05:44,663 --> 00:05:49,280 of course the perennial problem of 2021 piano black here, 78 00:05:49,280 --> 00:05:53,040 it looks disgusting. Well, it looks good for about three and a half minutes, 79 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:58,090 and then it looks disgusting. You touch it once, which these are designed to be touched. 80 00:05:58,090 --> 00:06:05,590 Looks terrible forever. Same with like, I know that this piano black that's here looks really nice 81 00:06:05,590 --> 00:06:10,000 for the first little bit. Cause it, you know, brings this in the display together, 82 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:14,709 but you touch it once you have some dust collect on it. Look at that terrible. 83 00:06:14,709 --> 00:06:21,220 I'm sorry to sound like a broken record on the piano black, but it is legitimately terrible under the infotainment. 84 00:06:21,220 --> 00:06:26,110 Like it's a German luxury car. Your first week with this thing, it's going to be terrible. 85 00:06:26,110 --> 00:06:30,050 It's going to there's so many settings, just settings on settings on settings. 86 00:06:30,050 --> 00:06:33,360 And you have to figure out which ones you like as for how 87 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:38,510 this works. It's actually a Samsung chip, that's powering this pretty fast, no real complaints, 88 00:06:38,510 --> 00:06:41,560 but the biggest and most bestest thing is you don't get 89 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,810 wireless Android auto, but you can at least plug your phone in 90 00:06:44,810 --> 00:06:49,890 and can get wired Android auto. So you do that and you have all of these things here. 91 00:06:49,890 --> 00:06:54,180 You're never going to touch it again. One mild annoyance that I have is that when you do 92 00:06:54,180 --> 00:06:59,810 navigation through Android auto, it doesn't pop up on the navigation display up here. 93 00:06:59,810 --> 00:07:03,330 You have to do that through audio thing, which is bad and worse than Google maps. 94 00:07:03,330 --> 00:07:07,870 So you're going to only ever use this screen. One thing that's slightly annoying is that there's not 95 00:07:07,870 --> 00:07:11,920 really good spot in here to put the cable for your phone. 96 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:16,440 It doesn't matter if you have an apple because there's a charger and there's wireless apple Car Play, 97 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:20,130 but there's a pass through here. You're probably going to keep your phone in the center, 98 00:07:20,130 --> 00:07:23,150 most of the time. My biggest complaint with this setup though, 99 00:07:23,150 --> 00:07:26,730 is that you have your cup holders right here and your USB-C 100 00:07:26,730 --> 00:07:30,140 charging ports right beside it that are angled down. 101 00:07:30,140 --> 00:07:34,690 So any coffee spills it's going to get in and collect right 102 00:07:34,690 --> 00:07:39,350 in your charging ports, that'll be fun when those stop working in two years or whatever. 103 00:07:39,350 --> 00:07:42,360 One more, very small gripe about this area here. 104 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:46,350 The 12 volts thing slowly, rotates itself while you drive. 105 00:07:46,350 --> 00:07:49,950 So it can never be perfectly straight, probably not a deal breaker, 106 00:07:49,950 --> 00:07:54,510 but if you're Andy, it might be. Although I wouldn't say this interior is striking. 107 00:07:54,510 --> 00:07:58,930 It is very striking at night. Everything that's here and here and there lights up, 108 00:07:58,930 --> 00:08:04,390 it looks fantastic. During the daytime that's fine. But every single material around here just feels great. 109 00:08:04,390 --> 00:08:09,520 This is actually ash, volcano ash. Apparently I liked the look of it now to get in gear, 110 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:13,790 you use this little thing here. It actually works quite well. So you pull it all the way back. That's drive, 111 00:08:13,790 --> 00:08:18,369 push it forward. You hit reverse. And if you are in drive, you can also do a little half forward. 112 00:08:18,369 --> 00:08:24,010 And that puts you into boost mode. So you normally get 350 horsepower boost mode brings you up 113 00:08:24,010 --> 00:08:27,730 to 402, but it's still a little bit slow, 114 00:08:27,730 --> 00:08:31,090 but let's go and tell you that. But not until I tell you what our sponsor 115 00:08:31,090 --> 00:08:35,510 I remembered this time. 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Try now for free at Pulseway.com or at the link below. 122 00:09:10,770 --> 00:09:14,030 Driving the E-tron is, well, if you like driving, 123 00:09:14,030 --> 00:09:18,840 don't get this car. It's not an accelerating drive, but if you don't like driving, 124 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:21,960 this is an exceptional machine, the adaptive cruise 125 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:25,440 in this is like no other car that I have driven. 126 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:31,270 I have had stop and go adaptive cruise before, but I've never trusted it for that last, 127 00:09:31,270 --> 00:09:35,350 like 15 kilometers to stop. It's just never been quite smooth enough. 128 00:09:35,350 --> 00:09:39,263 I'm going to do no steering inputs. We're going around this corner. 129 00:09:40,978 --> 00:09:45,960 It's breaking quite nicely for the people in front of us. 130 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:48,733 Come up here. I do need to tell him like where to go. 131 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:52,900 And then it just slows us down. That was really good. 132 00:09:52,900 --> 00:09:56,890 That was the gentlest that a car has ever stopped me before. 133 00:09:56,890 --> 00:10:02,540 Now, the lane assist also is very good. It's lane centering and it's very easy to turn on and off. 134 00:10:02,540 --> 00:10:07,225 It's just right on the stock, press the one thing. So you don't have to worry about, you know, 135 00:10:07,225 --> 00:10:10,500 getting in your way when you're on kind of a tight and 136 00:10:10,500 --> 00:10:13,640 twisty road. And then you can just turn it on and sort of zone out when 137 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:18,940 you're on your commute home. The lane centering in this is also excellent. 138 00:10:18,940 --> 00:10:23,560 So I'm going to my hands on the wheel, but I'm not turning it. Don't just put an orange on here. 139 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:26,770 That's a terrible idea. This thing can't self-drive you need to have 140 00:10:26,770 --> 00:10:30,870 your inputs on occasion. Now in a lot of cars, 141 00:10:30,870 --> 00:10:34,330 I screw around with like the different drive modes, 142 00:10:34,330 --> 00:10:39,970 a whole bunch, and this I've just set it to auto. And I have not worried about it, one bit. 143 00:10:39,970 --> 00:10:43,150 This is not a sporty car. It's it's a heavy car. 144 00:10:43,150 --> 00:10:47,300 It's a real chunker. Even though you have the better part of 500 horsepower, 145 00:10:47,300 --> 00:10:51,590 it's slow. This thing is really slow. Now out of the box, 146 00:10:51,590 --> 00:10:56,510 this has automatic brake region. It works terrible. I hate it. 147 00:10:56,510 --> 00:11:01,500 I'm surprised how much I use and like these little floppy panels. So you have two levels. 148 00:11:01,500 --> 00:11:04,640 One of them's not quite single pedal driving, 149 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:07,700 but pretty close. The other one's what I'd say is kind of like manual 150 00:11:07,700 --> 00:11:11,160 transmission car levels of engine braking. And that's where I left it 151 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:14,240 most of the time I asked for the actual driving experience, 152 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:15,073 it's 153 00:11:17,260 --> 00:11:21,250 pretty quick, but it doesn't shove you into the back of your seat. 154 00:11:21,250 --> 00:11:25,510 It kind of like nudges you back and I'm pretty sure that's 155 00:11:25,510 --> 00:11:29,940 due to like Audi's tuning of the throttle as opposed to what 156 00:11:29,940 --> 00:11:37,720 it's actually capable of. As for corners. It's fine. It has an electromechanical steering rack. 157 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:42,280 Let's put it in here. I have no clue what's on the go. There's not much engagement. Like the steering 158 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:47,340 weight's always very low, even in the sports setting. Like I do wish that they'd given me a bit more of a raw 159 00:11:47,340 --> 00:11:50,360 steering feel as opposed to the more, I guess, 160 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:55,166 jelloy feel that there is here. We do have Android auto. So play Crabrave. 161 00:11:55,166 --> 00:11:59,170 - Crabrave by Noisestorm. Sure. Playing on Spotify. 162 00:11:59,170 --> 00:12:05,100 - I love having a useful voice assistant. Thank you, Google. We are going be in an O sound system and it is really good. 163 00:12:05,100 --> 00:12:10,963 There's not a lot of bass, but the base is there. If you're middle-aged, this is the perfect sound system. 164 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:20,580 If my mom was to drive the Taycan, she would be terrified of hitting the gas, 165 00:12:20,580 --> 00:12:28,399 whereas in this thing right here, go into this corner flant it, that'll be exciting, but not terrifying. 166 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:31,580 You know, for the person that I think is going to buy this 167 00:12:31,580 --> 00:12:35,990 it's really well done. For myself, I'm a bit of an SUV hater. 168 00:12:35,990 --> 00:12:38,990 I think wagons are just as practical and almost every 169 00:12:38,990 --> 00:12:40,793 situation handled way better. 170 00:12:43,510 --> 00:12:47,930 So I guess if you have the money to spend on one of these, should you get one? 171 00:12:47,930 --> 00:12:52,670 Maybe I guess it starts at 77 US realistically are in it for about a hundred 172 00:12:52,670 --> 00:12:56,830 once you put the options on here that you want. One that makes me really mad is that they don't give you 173 00:12:56,830 --> 00:13:01,010 rear side curtain airbags, $350 option. 174 00:13:01,010 --> 00:13:06,520 Increase the MSRP of the car by 350 bucks. I don't want someone's kid's head going through the side 175 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:10,130 window cause you didn't spend that. For me, I'm not going to buy it. 176 00:13:10,130 --> 00:13:15,640 It's very expensive and not very fun to drive, but I could see a lot of people really liking it. 177 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:19,850 You are looking at a very similar price to a model X, 178 00:13:19,850 --> 00:13:23,490 but the interior of this is a lot more comfortable. 179 00:13:23,490 --> 00:13:27,100 It's really great how it does just smooth out the ride. 180 00:13:27,100 --> 00:13:31,300 It makes it super quiet. It is compelling if you don't like driving and just want to 181 00:13:31,300 --> 00:13:34,813 get driven around, wouldn't buy it. But I do like it. 182 00:13:34,813 --> 00:13:39,050 It's a huge thanks to open road for getting us this. This is part of their premiere package where you can kind of 183 00:13:39,050 --> 00:13:44,230 like swap, swap luxury cars. If you want, you could just be driving this thing for not all that much. 184 00:13:44,230 --> 00:13:47,790 And yeah, hit like, get subscribed. Let us know how we can change these videos, 185 00:13:47,790 --> 00:13:51,110 cause we still haven't made very many car ones, and just have a great day. 186 00:13:51,961 --> 00:13:53,533 Ooh.