Audi RS e-Tron GT

How it looks when you see it on the street:Our valets sees a lot of fancy cars — several months after the fact, they still lament over the Audi RS E-Tron GT. We’re often asked about electric cars and what’s the coolest. The Audi RS e-Tron GT is high on that list. The sleek four-door sports sedan has sleek and sinewy proportions. It shares a platform and therefore some of its visual form language with sister make, the Porsche Taycan model.

How it makes you feel when you get in: Like a second skin in a vegan interior, gussied up with the optional pop of good red in the seatbelt. The cockpit really earns that title and once inside we could appreciate the careful attention to sport customer comfort and clean design.

How it drives: Driving it induces the good kind of delirium. It’s wicked fast, zooming from 0 to 60 miles per hour in less than 3 seconds — 2.9 to be precise, and produces 690 horsepower. Audi also makes a powerful base model. It’s equipped with regenerative braking access through steering paddles, a nice touch.

No anxiety here when it comes to range — it earns 232 miles from the EPA's rating and several drivers have found that you can squeeze a couple dozen more miles before bleeding the battery out.

What should you compare it to: The Model S Plaid and the Porsche Taycan.

How much room for people: Our long-legged rear seat passengers were happy the legroom.

How much is it: The Audi GT Etron starts at $103,445. The base price on our model came in just under $140,00 and the fully loaded vehicle we tested was priced at $161,090, and that’s with the addition of the $20k year one package that added on nifty wheels, ventilated seats, the cool but unnecessary laser light and layers and layers of carbon fiber accoutrements. What could year two have in store?