Audi plans to nonetheless provide high-performance wagons for years to come back.

On the reveal of the Audi RS6 Avant GT, CarExpert requested Audi executives if the model would proceed to design high-performance wagons into the longer term.

“I’d positively say sure, for positive,” Nils Fischer, technical supervisor of the Audi RS6 Avant GT, advised CarExpert.

“I believe the previous has confirmed that there was a previous for the wagons, and once we take a look at the automobiles and the way lovely automobiles like that also may be developed, we predict there’s positively a future,” product advertising supervisor Kenneth Dose elaborated.

An Audi spokesperson later added world media ought to “keep tuned” for future fashions.

Presently, Audi Australia gives prospects a selection of three Avant (Audi speak for wagon) efficiency fashions: the S4 Avant, RS4 Avant, and RS6 Avant.

The German model has provided high-performance wagons because the 1992 RS2 Avant, which was additionally the model’s first RS-branded product.

Because the model strikes into the electrical house, it hasn’t shied away from wagons with the A6 Avant e-tron idea, however Audi has but to substantiate if the manufacturing automobile will spawn a high-performance variant.

The corporate has beforehand stated it “can think about” a scorching RS6 model. Such a mannequin might probably provide the RS e-tron GT’s 440kW/830Nm dual-motor powertrain.

The A6 e-tron idea rides the brand new Premium Platform Electrical, co-developed with Porsche, which may even underpin the Q6 e-tron SUV and helps each single-motor rear-wheel drive and dual-motor all-wheel drive powertrains.

It measures 4.96m lengthy, 1.96m large and 1.44m tall, or round 9mm longer and 58mm wider than an A6 Avant.

The A6 Avant e-tron idea has a dual-motor all-wheel drive powertrain with 350kW of energy and 800Nm of torque, like its Sportback counterpart.

It has a 100kWh battery, 800V expertise and 270kW of charging capability, permitting for 300km of vary to be added in 10 minutes.

With Audi nonetheless set to supply combustion-powered autos till at the least 2033 in most markets, there seems to nonetheless be loads of life in its petrol-powered efficiency fashions.

Audi’s next-generation A4 Avant is ready to be rechristened because the A5 Avant, and spy pictures have revealed what look like replacements for the present S4 and RS4 wagons.

The latter could undertake a plug-in hybrid powertrain.