The Audi Q2 could also be in its twilight years, nevertheless it’s getting a big tech improve.
Gone is Audi’s last-generation infotainment system, working on an 8.3-inch display screen and managed through a rotary dial, and as a substitute is an 8.8-inch touchscreen.
The place the rotary dial was, there’s now a storage compartment, whereas two data-capable USB-C retailers are located within the entrance centre console.
Whereas Audi can also be making the 12.3-inch Digital Cockpit digital instrument cluster customary throughout the vary globally, Audi Australia already made this transformation for 2024.
The up to date Q2 is launching in Europe within the first half of 2024. We’ve contacted Audi Australia to substantiate native launch timing.
Different gear changing into customary throughout the Audi Q2 vary in Europe features a three-spoke multi-function steering wheel, visitors signal recognition, lane departure warning and rear parking sensors, most of that are already customary right here.
Along with Digital Cockpit, Audi Australia additionally introduced final 12 months it has made the next options customary throughout the Q2 vary for 2024:
- Adaptive cruise help
- Energetic lane help
- Audi pre sense entrance
- Audi pre sense primary
- Rear USB-C cost ports
- Storage bundle
Audi CEO Markus Duesmann informed German enterprise newspaper Handelsblatt early in 2022 that the Q2, together with the A1 hatchback, won’t be replaced because the model prioritises pricier, extra worthwhile fashions.
“We now have determined to not construct the A1 [at the end of this model cycle], and there might be no successor mannequin for the Q2 both,” he mentioned.
“We’ll restrict our vary of fashions downwards and increase upwards”.
Audi hasn’t confirmed when the A1 and Q2 will exit manufacturing.
The Q2 has been in manufacturing since 2016, arriving right here early in 2017. A facelifted mannequin arrived in 2021.
Most consumers gravitate in direction of the marginally bigger, barely pricier however significantly newer Q3. Final 12 months, Audi bought 1486 Q2s in Australia towards 4457 Q3s.
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