Here's the Audi A6 Avant We Aren't Getting in the U.S.

written by Steven Ewing^{Director, Editorial Content
Steven Ewing has worked in the automotive industry since 2003. In that time, he's written thousands of articles and tested just as many vehicles. Steven is Edmunds' director of editorial content and has previously been on staff at Winding Road magazine, Autoblog, Motor1.com, CNET, and was the U.S. correspondent for Top Gear magazine. Steven has also contributed to Automobile magazine, Car and Driver, The Drive, Jalopnik, Porsche Panorama, and dozens of other publications. In his spare time, Steven loves to play the drums, cook, and drive his 2000 BMW M Roadster.}
edited by Kathleen Clonts^{Copy Chief
Kathleen Clonts has worked in the automotive industry since 2014 and has copy-edited thousands of vehicle reviews and stories about cars and the auto industry in that time. Kathleen is the Edmunds editorial team's copy chief and previously worked as the senior copy editor for Automobile magazine.}
7/31/2024
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In addition to the Sportback models, Audi is launching the A6 E-tron and S6 E-tron Avant.
Unfortunately, these wagon variants won't be coming to the U.S.
It's hardly a surprise, but we can lust after forbidden fruit anyway.

Here's some news that should shock exactly no one: Audi won't bring the new A6 E-tron Avant to the United States. So if you've been dreaming of an electric station wagon, guess you'll just have to keep saving for that Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo.

Why bring it up, then? Because Audi revealed the new A6 E-tron Sportback and S6 E-tron Sportback this week, and I got to see the Avant models during a preview event in Munich, Germany, earlier this month. They look great; I honestly prefer them to the Sportbacks that are coming to the U.S., and not just because they're wagons. The lines of the new A6 and S6 just work better with the long-roof shape.

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The Avant isn't as aerodynamic as the Sportback, with Audi quoting a drag coefficient of 0.24 compared to the sedan's 0.21. It's not as range-tastic, either; while Audi estimates a 750-kilometer (466-mile) driving distance for the A6 E-tron Sportback, it quotes 720 kilometers (447 miles) for the Avant. Those numbers are on the European WLTP cycle, of course, and are not representative of what we can expect from the U.S.-spec Sportback.

Audi doesn't quote cargo capacity figures for the A6 or S6 Avant, but obviously, it'll be much more capacious than the equivalent Sportback models thanks to the larger cargo hold and more upright shape. Not that our Sportback is anything to scoff at, of course; Audi estimates as much as 40 cubic feet of storage space with the rear seats folded flat.

The 2026 Audi A6 E-tron and S6 E-tron Sportback models go on sale in the U.S. next summer. The A6 will be available with rear- or all-wheel drive, while the S6 will exclusively use Quattro all-wheel drive. All variants will be powered by a 100-kWh battery pack (with 94.4 kWh of usable capacity), with output ranging from 362 horsepower in the base car to 496 hp in the S6 — or 543 hp for small bursts when using launch control.

Edmunds says

Are we bummed about not getting the Avants? Sort of. But we can also get pretty darn close to the same pacakge in the form of the Q6 E-tron and SQ6 E-tron SUVs.

by Steven Ewing

Steven Ewing has worked in the automotive industry since 2003. In that time, he's written thousands of articles and tested just as many vehicles. Steven is Edmunds' director of editorial content and has previously been on staff at Winding Road magazine, Autoblog, Motor1.com, CNET, and was the U.S. correspondent for Top Gear magazine. Steven has also contributed to Automobile magazine, Car and Driver, The Drive, Jalopnik, Porsche Panorama, and dozens of other publications. In his spare time, Steven loves to play the drums, cook, and drive his 2000 BMW M Roadster.

edited by Kathleen Clonts

Kathleen Clonts has worked in the automotive industry since 2014 and has copy-edited thousands of vehicle reviews and stories about cars and the auto industry in that time. Kathleen is the Edmunds editorial team's copy chief and previously worked as the senior copy editor for Automobile magazine.

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