Compare the2025 Audi e-tron GTVS 2024 Mercedes EQE Sedan

Both the e-tron GT and EQE Sedan have child safety locks to prevent children from opening the rear doors. The e-tron GT has power child safety locks, allowing the driver to activate and deactivate them from the driver's seat and to know when they're engaged. The EQE Sedan’s child locks have to be individually engaged at each rear door with a manual switch. The driver can’t know the status of the locks without opening the doors and checking them.

The Audi e-tron GT has standard driver and front passenger side knee airbags mounted low on the dashboard. These airbags helps prevent the driver and front passenger from sliding under their seatbelts or the main frontal airbags; this keeps them better positioned during a collision for maximum protection. Knee airbags also help keep the legs from striking the dashboard, preventing knee and leg injuries in the case of a serious frontal collision. The EQE Sedan doesn’t offer a front passenger side knee airbag.

To provide maximum traction and stability on all roads, All-Wheel Drive is standard on the e-tron GT. But it costs extra on the EQE Sedan.

Both the e-tron GT and the EQE Sedan have standard driver and passenger frontal airbags, front side-impact airbags, driver knee airbags, side-impact head airbags, front seatbelt pretensioners, height adjustable front shoulder belts, four-wheel antilock brakes, traction control, electronic stability systems to prevent skidding, crash mitigating brakes, post-collision automatic braking systems, daytime running lights, lane departure warning systems, blind spot warning systems, around view monitors and rear cross-path warning.

The e-tron GT’s corrosion warranty is 7 years longer than the EQE Sedan’s (12 vs. 5 years).

From surveys of all its subscribers, Consumer Reports’ January 2024 Auto Issue reports that Audi vehicles are more reliable than Mercedes vehicles. Consumer Reports ranks Audi 10 places higher in reliability than Mercedes.

The e-tron GT has more powerful engines than the EQE Sedan:

On the EPA test cycle the S e-tron GT with its standard motors gets better mileage than the AMG EQE (91 city/88 hwy vs. 73 city/74 hwy MPGe).

The e-tron GT can travel longer on a full charge than the EQE Sedan on a full charge:

The e-tron GT stops much shorter than the EQE Sedan:

For better traction and acceleration, the e-tron GT has larger standard rear tires than the EQE Sedan (285/40R20 vs. 255/40R20). The e-tron GT’s optional rear tires are larger than the largest rear tires available on the EQE Sedan (305/30R21 vs. 295/35R20).

The front and rear suspension of the e-tron GT uses air springs for a smoother, controlled ride than the EQE Sedan, which uses coil springs. Air springs maintain proper ride height and ride more smoothly.

The e-tron GT offers an available active suspension system, which counteracts cornering forces actively, limiting body roll and improving handling and stability. Mercedes doesn’t offer an active suspension on the EQE Sedan.

For better handling and stability, the track (width between the wheels) on the e-tron GT is 2 inches wider in the front and .8 inches wider in the rear than the average track on the EQE Sedan.

The RS e-tron GT performance handles at .93 G’s, while the EQE 350 4MATIC pulls only .86 G’s of cornering force in a Car and Driver skidpad test.

A standard locking glovebox (which can’t be accessed with the valet key) keeps your small valuables safer in the e-tron GT. The EQE Sedan doesn’t offer locking storage for small valuables.

Laser headlights, standard on the e-tron GT Prestige/RS, produce their light by firing blue lasers through phosphorus, a process that uses one-half the power of the EQE Sedan’s LED headlights. Laser headlights can have double the range of LEDs with a much smaller surface area.