New Audi A2 e-tron 2027: UK Prices, Range & Leasing Guide

Audi has brought back one of its most interesting badges, and this time it's electric. The new A2 e-tron opens at £32,200 on the road, making it the cheapest route into Audi ownership through electric car leasing. Here's the full UK range, the history behind the name, and how the numbers stack up if you're weighing up car leasing for early 2027.

What is the new Audi A2 e-tron?

The A2 e-tron is Audi's new entry-level electric car: a five-door compact hatchback built in Ingolstadt, Germany, on the Volkswagen Group's MEB platform. It was unveiled on 7 September 2026, UK order books opened in October 2026, and first deliveries are due in early 2027 from £32,200 OTR.

It shares its MEB underpinnings with the Volkswagen ID.3 and Cupra Born, offers 52, 61 and 84kWh gross battery capacities, and charges at up to 183kW DC, taking 24 to 29 minutes to go from 10 to 80 percent. Every version is rear-wheel drive, so there's no quattro option. At 4,321mm long it's bigger than the original A2, with a 396-litre boot plus extra storage under the bonnet.

It marks the return of the A2 name for the first time since 2005 and is expected to replace the A1 and Q2 in Audi's UK line-up. Audi UK's José Miguel Aparicio described it as "the embodiment of efficiency", and the brand calls it the most efficient Audi it has ever built.

Why does the A2 name matter to Audi?

The original A2 ran from late 1999 to July 2005 and was an engineering landmark: the first mass-produced compact car with a body made entirely of aluminium. Audi ended production after 176,377 units because sales fell short of expectations, yet it's now a cult car with a devoted following.

Shown at the Frankfurt IAA in September 1999, the 3.83-metre-long A2 was built at Neckarsulm in facilities created specifically for it and opened on 15 November 1999. Its aluminium Space Frame body shell weighed just 153 kilograms, around 60 percent of a comparable steel structure. The 1.2 TDI version caused a sensation as the world's first four-door three-litre car, though only 6,555 of those were built out of the 176,377 total. British buyers never got the 3L.

So the badge carries a warning as well as a promise. Audi lost money on the first A2 because it built a bespoke line for a car that never hit volume. The new one is deliberately the opposite: development to production readiness was 21 months shorter than previous Audi projects, bodies are built alongside the A3, and more than 1,200 production components including around 250 robots have been reused from other models. Efficiency in the factory, not just on the road.

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How much does the Audi A2 e-tron cost in the UK?

UK prices run from £32,200 OTR for the 170PS Technik to £50,880 OTR for the 326PS Edition 1, correct as of October 2026. Audi offers four power outputs and four trim levels, though not every trim is available with every powertrain. OTR means on the road, including VAT, delivery and first registration.

Sport adds 19-inch wheels, an eight-speaker Audi sound system, electrically folding mirrors, a storage and luggage package, digital key functionality and extra high-power USB connections. S line brings distinctive bumpers, black exterior detailing, privacy glass and black 19-inch Audi Sport wheels. Edition 1 versions add suspension with damper control, progressive steering and Audi drive select. A Tech Pack is offered on several versions, which pushes the top of the range a little higher again.

Which A2 e-tron battery and trim should you choose?

For most UK drivers the 190PS 61kWh car is the sweet spot. It costs £1,700 more than the equivalent 170PS version, adds up to 48 miles of range, and returns Audi's best quoted consumption figure of up to 4.79 miles per kWh. The 84kWh cars are a different financial proposition entirely.

Here's the quirk worth knowing: after the grant, the 170PS Sport and S line cost £33,300 and £35,900, while the 190PS equivalents are £35,000 and £37,600, which means buyers prioritising range over styling can have the 310-mile Technik for less than the 261-mile Sport. Spec creep is expensive on this car. Our leasing experts recommend pricing the trim you want against the battery you want before committing, because the two don't move in the same direction.

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What does the A2 e-tron cost as a company car?

According to HMRC's published appropriate percentages, a fully electric car attracts a Benefit in Kind (BIK) rate of 4% of P11D value for the 2026/27 tax year. BIK is the tax you pay on a non-cash perk from your employer. The rate is legislated to rise to 5% in 2027/28, 7% in 2028/29 and 9% in 2029/30.

Example, using illustrative round numbers: a £34,000 P11D value at 4% gives a taxable benefit of £1,360, which costs a 20% taxpayer £272 a year and a 40% taxpayer £544 a year in the 2026/27 tax year. Compare that with a petrol or diesel car, where the rate scales with CO2 emissions and sits at roughly 15% to 37% of list price.

That gap is why salary sacrifice works so well on electric cars, and why an A2 e-tron taken through an employer scheme or on Business Contract Hire often lands very differently from the same car on a personal agreement. You can check your own figures using the Government's company car tax tool.

Is the A2 e-tron a sensible lease, or should you wait?

Based on FVL's experience arranging leases on brand-new nameplates, the strongest terms on a launch model rarely appear in the first few weeks. Funders need residual values, and residual values on a car with no history are set cautiously. On a lease, you pay the gap between what the car costs to acquire and what it's forecast to be worth at the end of the term, plus interest charges, so a conservative residual means a higher rental.

Two things work in the A2 e-tron's favour. It's a premium badge in a segment where Audi has been absent since the A1 bowed out, and the entry price undercuts rivals such as the Kia EV3 before grants are applied. If you need a car in the first quarter of 2027, order now. If your current agreement doesn't end until later in 2027, there's no harm in waiting for the first proper funder support to arrive, and our team can flag it when it does.

One more point in leasing's favour on a car like this: residual-value risk sits with the funder, not with you. Nobody knows yet what a three-year-old A2 e-tron will be worth. On contract hire, that's not your problem. It's also worth comparing the A2 e-tron against other hatchback lease deals on the same term and mileage before you decide, and our electric car guide covers the charging and running-cost side in more depth.

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Written by the editorial team at First Vehicle Leasing, a UK vehicle leasing broker with over 25 years' experience, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and a member of the BVRLA.