The 2025 Audi RS e-tron GT, a facelifted version of the brand’s high-performance electric grand tourer, is coming to the U.S. in a few months. The new model is already on sale in Europe, and last week, I saw it on display at the 2024 Paris Motor Show. Here’s everything you need to know about it:
Design
The 2025 Audi RS e-tron GT doesn’t feature extensive design changes. Headlamps typically see a redesign with facelifts on most cars, but not in this case. The front-end does look sharper, though, thanks to a revised look for the inverted Singleframe and its surround. The prominent central grille skips the old model’s recessed area in the upper part. In the same place, the brand logo has a new two-dimensional look. Even the front bumper has an edgier design.
For a refreshed styling on the sides, the 2025 Audi RS e-tron GT is available with new 20- and 21-inch wheels. The 20-inch units have six-twin-spoke designs, while the 21-inch units draw inspiration from the wheels of the 1991 Audi Avus quattro concept. A new rear diffuser rounds up the exterior changes of the updated EV.
For the first time, a 2025 Audi RS e-tron GT performance is also available. Customers can distinguish it with an optional matt, darkened carbon roof and carbon camouflage accents on the embossed bumper structures, the door trim, the side mirrors, and parts of the diffuser. An available Bedford Green paint further elevates exclusivity.
Interior
The 2025 Audi RS e-tron GT carries over most of the outgoing model’s sporty and conventional interior. It has a new steering wheel featuring the new flat brand logo, a flattened top, and unfortunately, capacitive buttons in place of push-back buttons. The instrument cluster is more comprehensive, providing new information on the battery temperature and displaying the maximum possible charging power in real-time.
In the first-ever 2025 Audi RS e-tron GT performance, drivers can choose a white power display and speedometer to make the instrument cluster reminiscent of the 1994 Audi RS 2 Avant, which initially featured white-colored analog dials. Moreover, a new and exclusive design package brings Serpentine Green stitching and 18-way adjustable seats to this range-topping configuration. Customers can specify matt carbon camouflage interior trim as well. The digital sound generated through the speakers is also different here.
Specifications
The 2025 Audi RS e-tron GT sports a new rear motor that is lighter, more powerful, and more efficient, along with another more efficient motor, mounted on the front axle. The two motors generate 570 kW (764 hp) and 865 Nm (638 lb.-ft.) of torque, allowing the new model to hit 0 to 62 mph in just 3.1 seconds. Plus, by engaging launch control, which raises the system power to 630 kW (845 hp) temporarily, drivers can reduce that time to 2.8 seconds. Flat out, the high-performance electric GT will go up to 155 mph.
The 2025 Audi RS e-tron GT Performance’s twin-motor powertrain produces 620 kW (831 hp) and 1,027 Nm (757 lb.-ft.) of torque, allowing it to finish a 0-62 mph sprint in just 2.9 seconds. Here, too, a launch control feature is available, and it increases the total power to 680 kW (912 hp) temporarily, cutting that time to 2.5 seconds. The top speed doesn’t change in the top-of-the-line car, though – 155 mph.
Audi equips both 2025 RS e-tron GT and 2025 RS e-tron GT performance with a new 97 kWh battery pack that customers can charge at up to 320 kW. A 10-80% charging session takes as little as 18 minutes. The new battery pack delivers a WLTP range of 599 km (372 miles) in the 2025 RS e-tron GT and 592 km (368 miles) in the 2025 RS e-tron GT performance, both as per WLTP.
Price
In Germany, the 2025 Audi RS e-tron GT retails at EUR 147,500 (USD 159,186) and the 2025 Audi RS e-tron GT carries a price tag of EUR 160,500 (USD 173,216). In the U.S., we expect their prices to be around USD 152,000 and approximately USD 165,000, respectively.
An automobile engineer by training, I’ve analyzed the global car market since 2005, with a keen focus on EVs since 2008. My journey in online automotive publishing spans 16 years, during which I have reviewed cutting-edge automotive technologies and interviewed leading CEOs and vehicle developers from around the world.
