The big test: The old guard’s new EVs

Audi, Jaguar and now Mercedes finally have AWD electric SUVs vying for your R2 million. So, who’s conquered the brave new world?

WORDS OLLIE KEW

I reckon we make it 12 words into this without mentioning Tesla. Whoops. Summer 2019 and, at last, there’s a big-hitting electric family car group test that doesn’t feature one of Elon’s Silicon Valley chip-chariots. Tesla always protested its mission wasn’t so much to build world-beating cars as to give the global auto-giants a crowd-pleasing kick up the exhaust pipe. Here’s their reaction. Audi vs Jag vs, well, not the first electric vehicle from the company that brought you The Car. But the first one to launch an EQ sub-brand that’ll duel the VW’s ID family, the next gen of iBMWs, and yep, Tesla. The Merc EQC is a very important car. Not that it looks it. It’s a blob. Current Merc design boils down to: “Sorry we blemished our…

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Top Gear South Africa (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2019

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