‘2024 will be a transition year’
Audi says it is facing a challenging year. According to the brand, 2024 will be a year in which it faces supply chain problems, but also a year in which it introduces three important new models.
According to Audi, its models with V6 and V8 engines are having a hard time. Not only due to changes in the market, but also due to problems in the supply chain. According to the brand, this has depressed the profit it made in the first quarter of this year. The brand turned over €13.7 billion in the first three months. A huge amount of course, but the operating profit was ‘only’ €466 million. More figures: Audi delivered 396,000 cars worldwide in the first quarter of this year, 4.5 percent less than in the same period last year. In Europe, Audi saw its deliveries decrease by 10 percent to 162,432 cars.
There is a lot to expect from Audi this year. This summer it will introduce the A6 e-tron and the A6 Avant e-tron, cars that will function as the electric equivalent of the current A6 generation. The A6 Limousine and Avant with combustion engines will eventually be known as the A7 Limousine and A7 Avant, the A7 Sportback will be discontinued.
There is more news, 2024 will also be the year in which we are introduced to the brand new A5 and Q5. The new A5 family will soon contain the successors to the current A4 series, possibly supplemented with a Sportback variant. The Q5 remains what it was in terms of naming, but that car is also completely renewed. According to Audi, the A5 and Q5 are on the PPC platform. Indeed: PPC and not PPE. While the Premium Platform Electric (PPE) hardware is used in cars such as the Q6 e-tron and soon the A6 e-tron, Premium Platform Combustion (PPC) is its equivalent for models with a combustion engine. However, this concerns higher positioned models, i.e. from what is now the A4 and soon the A5 family. The Audi A3 remains a car on an MQB basis.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl