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Originally Posted by supafamous
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a6...s-a-big-tease/
The leaked photos from a couple days ago didn't look very good but these shots look pretty sharp to me.
Mildly annoyed that they aren't making these cars smaller to take advantage of the improved packaging. The same goes for the new Audi Q6 - it's way roomier than the Q5 which it replaces and gets bigger not the outside. They could have made it the same size or smaller and still have been roomier.
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I really like the exterior look of the Neue Klasse cars, the interior though, I'm a bit hesitant. I'm surprised they did away with the iDrive controller. If the NK cars come with a frunk at a slightly bigger than G01 X3 size, I would be sold. 30% more range at similar capacities, and 20% more charge at the same battery size is a HUGE improvement when you consider BMW iX is rated to be the most efficient EV on a per mile basis awhile ago.
None of the German EVs are particularly well packaged imo. The original eTron is terrible, the Taycan has poor interior space for the footprint. The ID3 somehow doesn't have a frunk, same with the iX.
There must be something Tesla is doing or not doing to enable them to have so much more space. I wonder if there's some comfort or build consideration that the Germans are building for that Tesla doesn't care about, or Tesla's whole big cast pieces actually save them that much more space and allows them to stuff components in places that the Germans can't.