A rounded rear promotes air that creates swirling and small Eddies, virtually clings to the physique and pulls. These automotive designers trouble to indicate aerodynamically sculpture rear mild teams how it’s price making small enhancements right here.

Particularly with EVs, by which aerodynamics performs a higher position in total effectivity than in ice cream vehicles, and since extra put on not solely gasoline prices but additionally picks up time.

These are such small particulars that the previous A2 doesn’t have. The door handles stick out, its windshield sitting above the windshield and there may be (very delicate) physique cladding.

Sensible and laws additionally performed their position. The A2 has a bit lip poiler on its hatch, which might be more practical because it was bigger, and can even stretch vertically on the edges of the automotive, comparable to those they placed on the again of the vehicles.

However it could make the rear visibility even worse than it’s and will have spoiled the traces of what I believe is a really good little automotive. Ditto if the rear mild was scaled, quite than formed to suit the physique: extra environment friendly, much less engaging.

There are issues that Audi didn’t do on the time, that it could virtually really feel compelled to do right this moment, particularly on a marketed automotive, just like the A2, was so technically sensible and really efficient.