You really do sound like you want to have your cake and eat it.
I was talking to a friend of mine a few years back and for whatever reason the conversation moved on to mortgages. When he found out that I'd chosen to pay mine off it was like I was suddenly some kind of multi-millionaire when in reality he had exactly the same means to do so with the money he had in premium bonds. I'd chosen to use the vast majority of our savings to remove the final debt we had hanging over us in a calculated risk that both my wife and I wouldn't lose our jobs in tandem. I'm not advocating it (although it was probably one of my better financial decisions) but it was my choice to do so. It meant that I couldn't then go out and buy myself, for example, a new car.
You make these life choices, normally with the best of intentions at the time, but they do effect things later on down the line. That money going in to your pension pot could have been going towards another car or repair pot for the current one. That house you bought could probably have been cheaper. That mountain bike you bought years ago could have been money in the bank etc. etc.
TBH putting money into a house and pension seem like a very good idea to me, more so than spending it on a car, but you can't now complain that you can't have the car as well.
Also, you don't just want a car. It has to be an estate, a large one, and an automatic, and have decent performance, and look good....
Lose the auto requirement (unless there is some medical reason you can't) and watch those hundreds of suitable cars on AT become thousands.
The fact that your justification for the change in the first place is running costs and then you are considering a used Audi E-Tron and questioning about what happens when it is 8 years old shows that you are at risk of sleep walking into the exact same position further down the line.
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