WEBVTT 00:00:00.130 --> 00:00:04.540 - Today we have the Audi e-tron Sportback. And the first thing about this thing, 00:00:04.540 --> 00:00:10.062 Oh my God it's massive, look at this. (upbeat music) 00:00:17.564 --> 00:00:22.490 I thought it was kind of just like a wagon, but no it is proper big. 00:00:22.490 --> 00:00:26.090 Now you can get the SUV version and that's comes, you know, 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 00:00:30.470 --> 00:00:35.390 and I think it looks fantastic. Now you do get looks in this car, 00:00:35.390 --> 00:00:38.420 but not by you'd expect in the Porsche everyone looks at it 00:00:38.420 --> 00:00:42.610 everyone loves it in my like fun colored golf. Kids think it's awesome. 00:00:42.610 --> 00:00:46.910 And this right here, it's like retired women that are rich. 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, 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 00:00:57.940 --> 00:01:02.500 doesn't really have. So right here, you can have another charging port on this side. 00:01:02.500 --> 00:01:06.030 We'll come around, come on, Andy, you have your charging port on this side, 00:01:06.030 --> 00:01:09.079 this right here gets you 150 kilowatts of charging. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:37.690 it is where they store Okay, it's fine. 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. 00:01:42.100 --> 00:01:45.010 Very nice. Some of them charge extra for that. 00:01:46.360 --> 00:01:50.140 It just doesn't feel great. Oh, well that doesn't really take away from 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. 00:01:55.700 --> 00:01:59.130 Like this swooping back. Well, if you think that model X's are boring, 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, 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 00:02:07.810 --> 00:02:10.880 this thing is, these are 21 inch rims. 00:02:10.880 --> 00:02:15.970 Look at how much tire there still is here. There's what 265/45 00:02:15.970 --> 00:02:19.160 R 21s. Freaking massive, 00:02:19.160 --> 00:02:22.633 also this paint rate here is 600 bucks. Like I said before, 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, 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. 00:02:32.650 --> 00:02:37.050 Easy, done. No one was suspected either mall bosses. 00:02:37.050 --> 00:02:41.800 Invest in these hopefully have appeal. You still have this on your car, Andy. 00:02:43.890 --> 00:02:47.700 Oh, wow. Look at how shiny that is. 00:02:47.700 --> 00:02:51.113 How long do you think this shiny thing is going to stay shiny, Andy? 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:55.530 - Anyway. Under the trunk here, you get a spare tire. 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, 00:02:59.910 --> 00:03:03.220 but whatever. And a good bit of space down here for whatever you want. 00:03:03.220 --> 00:03:06.540 I like stuffing frozen goods down there. So it doesn't get hot in the sun, 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? 00:03:11.790 --> 00:03:16.280 What's this? - Wheel locks? Oh yeah, there you go. 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:18.683 Of course you can also fold the seats down flat. 00:03:19.540 --> 00:03:23.200 I guess you kind of have to go all the way around to do 00:03:23.200 --> 00:03:29.870 that, but it works. popping in the back, this is rather comfortable. 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. 00:03:36.070 --> 00:03:39.090 Oops. Did we get dual climate for the back? 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. 00:03:43.790 --> 00:03:47.320 Down here, we have two type C ports down at the bottom 00:03:47.320 --> 00:03:49.563 and privacy screens. 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:55.910 Cool. This of course is where you plan on spending 00:03:55.910 --> 00:03:59.410 most of your time probably heard that there, 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. 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. 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. 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:23.210 These seats are incredibly comfortable, heated and vented loved the venting very hot here right now. 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. 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. 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. 00:04:37.760 --> 00:04:39.910 And then I could be a lot more comfortable. 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:45.680 Yeah. Tall people problems. My biggest concern about this car was the touchscreen 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:48.780 down below, and at first it was pretty bad, 00:04:48.780 --> 00:04:52.500 but it turns out that on both of these, they come with haptic feedback enabled, 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. 00:04:58.890 --> 00:05:01.890 All of these are pretty clear, easy to see, 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. 00:05:06.840 --> 00:05:10.580 How did Porsche screw theirs up so bad guys just steal it from Audi. 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. 00:05:15.840 --> 00:05:19.740 So you have a volume knob next song, last song. 00:05:19.740 --> 00:05:25.420 And almost most importantly for me, a hard button for enabling and disabling the parking thing. 00:05:25.420 --> 00:05:29.200 So it can be so annoying at times when it just starts 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. 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 00:05:37.710 --> 00:05:41.040 works really great. Awesome to have in a car that's this big. 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:44.663 For the steering wheel, it feels really great, but we do have, 00:05:44.663 --> 00:05:49.280 of course the perennial problem of 2021 piano black here, 00:05:49.280 --> 00:05:53.040 it looks disgusting. Well, it looks good for about three and a half minutes, 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:58.090 and then it looks disgusting. You touch it once, which these are designed to be touched. 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 00:06:05.590 --> 00:06:10.000 for the first little bit. Cause it, you know, brings this in the display together, 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:14.709 but you touch it once you have some dust collect on it. Look at that terrible. 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. 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. 00:06:26.110 --> 00:06:30.050 It's going to there's so many settings, just settings on settings on settings. 00:06:30.050 --> 00:06:33.360 And you have to figure out which ones you like as for how 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, 00:06:38.510 --> 00:06:41.560 but the biggest and most bestest thing is you don't get 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:44.810 wireless Android auto, but you can at least plug your phone in 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. 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 00:06:54.180 --> 00:06:59.810 navigation through Android auto, it doesn't pop up on the navigation display up here. 00:06:59.810 --> 00:07:03.330 You have to do that through audio thing, which is bad and worse than Google maps. 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 00:07:07.870 --> 00:07:11.920 really good spot in here to put the cable for your phone. 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, 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, 00:07:20.130 --> 00:07:23.150 most of the time. My biggest complaint with this setup though, 00:07:23.150 --> 00:07:26.730 is that you have your cup holders right here and your USB-C 00:07:26.730 --> 00:07:30.140 charging ports right beside it that are angled down. 00:07:30.140 --> 00:07:34.690 So any coffee spills it's going to get in and collect right 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. 00:07:39.350 --> 00:07:42.360 One more, very small gripe about this area here. 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:46.350 The 12 volts thing slowly, rotates itself while you drive. 00:07:46.350 --> 00:07:49.950 So it can never be perfectly straight, probably not a deal breaker, 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. 00:07:54.510 --> 00:07:58.930 It is very striking at night. Everything that's here and here and there lights up, 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. 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, 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, 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. 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 00:08:24.010 --> 00:08:27.730 to 402, but it's still a little bit slow, 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 00:08:31.090 --> 00:08:35.510 I remembered this time. 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It's not an accelerating drive, but if you don't like driving, 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:21.960 this is an exceptional machine, the adaptive cruise 00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:25.440 in this is like no other car that I have driven. 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, 00:09:31.270 --> 00:09:35.350 like 15 kilometers to stop. It's just never been quite smooth enough. 00:09:35.350 --> 00:09:39.263 I'm going to do no steering inputs. We're going around this corner. 00:09:40.978 --> 00:09:45.960 It's breaking quite nicely for the people in front of us. 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:48.733 Come up here. I do need to tell him like where to go. 00:09:49.640 --> 00:09:52.900 And then it just slows us down. That was really good. 00:09:52.900 --> 00:09:56.890 That was the gentlest that a car has ever stopped me before. 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. 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, 00:10:07.225 --> 00:10:10.500 getting in your way when you're on kind of a tight and 00:10:10.500 --> 00:10:13.640 twisty road. And then you can just turn it on and sort of zone out when 00:10:13.640 --> 00:10:18.940 you're on your commute home. The lane centering in this is also excellent. 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. 00:10:23.560 --> 00:10:26.770 That's a terrible idea. This thing can't self-drive you need to have 00:10:26.770 --> 00:10:30.870 your inputs on occasion. Now in a lot of cars, 00:10:30.870 --> 00:10:34.330 I screw around with like the different drive modes, 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. 00:10:39.970 --> 00:10:43.150 This is not a sporty car. It's it's a heavy car. 00:10:43.150 --> 00:10:47.300 It's a real chunker. Even though you have the better part of 500 horsepower, 00:10:47.300 --> 00:10:51.590 it's slow. This thing is really slow. Now out of the box, 00:10:51.590 --> 00:10:56.510 this has automatic brake region. It works terrible. I hate it. 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. 00:11:01.500 --> 00:11:04.640 One of them's not quite single pedal driving, 00:11:04.640 --> 00:11:07.700 but pretty close. The other one's what I'd say is kind of like manual 00:11:07.700 --> 00:11:11.160 transmission car levels of engine braking. And that's where I left it 00:11:11.160 --> 00:11:14.240 most of the time I asked for the actual driving experience, 00:11:14.240 --> 00:11:15.073 it's 00:11:17.260 --> 00:11:21.250 pretty quick, but it doesn't shove you into the back of your seat. 00:11:21.250 --> 00:11:25.510 It kind of like nudges you back and I'm pretty sure that's 00:11:25.510 --> 00:11:29.940 due to like Audi's tuning of the throttle as opposed to what 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. 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 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 00:11:47.340 --> 00:11:50.360 steering feel as opposed to the more, I guess, 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:55.166 jelloy feel that there is here. We do have Android auto. So play Crabrave. 00:11:55.166 --> 00:11:59.170 - Crabrave by Noisestorm. Sure. Playing on Spotify. 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. 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. 00:12:14.800 --> 00:12:20.580 If my mom was to drive the Taycan, she would be terrified of hitting the gas, 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. 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:31.580 You know, for the person that I think is going to buy this 00:12:31.580 --> 00:12:35.990 it's really well done. For myself, I'm a bit of an SUV hater. 00:12:35.990 --> 00:12:38.990 I think wagons are just as practical and almost every 00:12:38.990 --> 00:12:40.793 situation handled way better. 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? 00:12:47.930 --> 00:12:52.670 Maybe I guess it starts at 77 US realistically are in it for about a hundred 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 00:12:56.830 --> 00:13:01.010 rear side curtain airbags, $350 option. 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 00:13:06.520 --> 00:13:10.130 window cause you didn't spend that. For me, I'm not going to buy it. 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. 00:13:15.640 --> 00:13:19.850 You are looking at a very similar price to a model X, 00:13:19.850 --> 00:13:23.490 but the interior of this is a lot more comfortable. 00:13:23.490 --> 00:13:27.100 It's really great how it does just smooth out the ride. 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 00:13:31.300 --> 00:13:34.813 get driven around, wouldn't buy it. But I do like it. 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 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. 00:13:44.230 --> 00:13:47.790 And yeah, hit like, get subscribed. 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