Fans of preposterously powerful electric wagons should look away now because Audi has reportedly killed the RS6 e-tron .

Sources within Audi have told Top Gear development of the RS6 e-tron has been stopped and the project cancelled. There are apparently no technical reasons behind the move, but rather the projected sales figures were too low to justify the development cost.

If true, this means the fastest A6 e-tron for the foreseeable future is the S6 e-tron (below), which has a dual-motor all-wheel drive system making a total of 370kW or 405kW with launch control enabled.

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In the right conditions it can rip up the 0-100km/h standard in 3.9s This, in the grand scheme of things, is pretty

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