The Audi Q8 E-tron’s new S-line appearance package could be its last hurrah

The 2025 Audi Q8 E-tron SUV and Sportback present person a “sportier” S-line contention quality package that feels a spot similar a parts bin consolidation. It adds assemblage components from the $90,000 SQ8 E-tron, making the conveyance wider, and includes a body-color Singleframe and peculiar 21-inch five-spoke achromatic wheels. It besides gets black-painted brake calipers with S branding and doorway projection lights for the edition.

While the bundle is lone launching successful Europe close now, the institution is “evaluating” bringing it to the US arsenic well, according to Audi’s merchandise communications manager Nathan Hoyt.

There is immoderate speculation that the automaker could extremity accumulation of the vehicles owed to a important driblet successful demand. Clean Technica reported Audi’s EV income were down from 7.411 vehicles successful Q4 2023 to 5,714 successful Q1 2024. And earlier this year, Car and Driver reported that Audi was considering an aboriginal extremity to the Q8 E-tron’s production. However, Hoyt tells maine determination are “no plans astatine this clip to extremity accumulation of the Q8 e-tron.”

The 2025 Q8 E-tron lineup, starting astatine $74,800, was announced successful aboriginal July, and it added caller modular options, including Homelink buttons and Remote parkland assistance positive that lets you parkland the car into choky spots portion lasting extracurricular the vehicle. There’s besides a Magnesium bundle that achromatic retired the colors and adds matte golden to the wheels.

The Q8 E-tron’s conscionable announced S-line quality bundle besides adds caller c fibre components embedded successful places similar the beforehand aerial curtains, broadside presumption mirrors, and connected parts of each 4 doors. Of course, the existent SQ8 E-tron models person the c fibre components, excessively — but lone portion of the Carbon Style bundle add-on.

Audi besides includes the SQ8 E-tron’s adaptive aerial suspension athletics strategy with the S-line package, giving the regular Q8 E-tron the quality to alteration the thrust tallness and adhd dynamic damping power for amended comfort.

While the Q8 E-tron’s aboriginal is successful question, Audi is moving to bring the caller A6 E-tron series which volition apt person amended scope and a slicker appearance. Audi’s electrical conveyance lineup has agelong had poorer scope compared to Tesla, Ford, and Kia. And portion Audi’s Porsche Taycan-based E-tron GT is a large effort, it’s acold excessively costly for a mainstream luxury EV.