A5/S5/RS5 Audi A5 Official Thread II

[Choleric]

Audi A5 Pictures:

https://www.germancarforum.com/threads/audi-a5-s5-picture-thread.22857/

Car will be presented at Geneva, on March 6th

Thread I, for reference:
https://www.germancarforum.com/threads/audi-a5-official-pictures.11282/

 

[Choleric]

I think it is interesting that even on the Manual transmission, they have a button for the parking brake, I for one would like an actual lever in a manual car, not an electronic switch.

 

[RICHBOY]

The carbin fiber looks perfectly placed, not to much, not to little!

 

[Deutsch]

That's a good point. Not only does Audi craft first class interiors, they also consider the distribution and placement of materials.

 

[Iceman]

I think it is interesting that even on the Manual transmission, they have a button for the parking brake, I for one would like an actual lever in a manual car, not an electronic switch.

A manual parking brake is out of date.
It's not from this time anymore.

Hans.

 

[bmer]

I think it is interesting that even on the Manual transmission, they have a button for the parking brake, I for one would like an actual lever in a manual car, not an electronic switch.

The A6 has it too, it was maybe the first Audi model to offer m/t and electronic parking brake. (Audi experts?)

 

[Merc1]

I believe the A8 was?

M

 

[Choleric]

I realize we have seen it before, but on a manual transmission? What if the electronics fail? Your car would roll away right?

 

[bmer]

I realize we have seen it before, but on a manual transmission? What if the electronics fail? Your car would roll away right?

A6 has manual transmission in Europe. My uncle has an A6 Avant with manual and at least his car is equipped with the electronic parking brake. I think it's quite fail safe because VW Passat also has just a button.

I believe the A8 was?

M

The A8 doesn't have a manual.

 

[Merc1]

Oh I though he meant which Audi was first to have the electronic parking brake.

M

 

[Choleric]

A6 has manual transmission in Europe. My uncle has an A6 Avant with manual and at least his car is equipped with the electronic parking brake.



The A8 doesn't have a manual.

Ah I see, I guess I have never seen one in the States, I guess you just have to trust technology.

 

[Spyker]

I'm sure that you have allready mentioned but still, I don't have enough nervs to search all posts...

So my question is if the DSG (S-Tronic in Audi's case) will be avaliable in A5? And if it's true that 3.0 TDI will be avaliable just with manual transmition? And 2.7 TDI with Multitronic? Or will the both be equipted or with manual or with automatic transmition?

 

[Deutsch]

I'm also waiting to hear an answer from Audi on the availability of DSG for the A5, it wouldn't make any sense not to have it??? They've had more than enough time to engineer the gearbox for longitudinal configurations.

 

[Mockenrue]

A longtitudinal 7speed DSG box is currently being readied for production by both Audi and Porsche. The 997 and B8 based cars will be the first recipients.

 

[Mr. M]

I'm guessing DSG will come very soon, because they haven't announced any Tiptronic option for the A5 yet. Either that's a very big mistake or they're preparing for DSG launch. I say, the latter.

 

[Yperion]

Tiptronic hasn't been announced cause S-Tronic (DSG) will replace it in all future Audis. We don't know when Audi will launch details about the DSG but i guess we will know very soon.

 

[Tumbo]

A longtitudinal 7speed DSG box is currently being readied for production by both Audi and Porsche. The 997 and B8 based cars will be the first recipients.

Hi there and welcome to the forum.

What is your information based on?

 

[martinbo]

A longtitudinal 7speed DSG box is currently being readied for production by both Audi and Porsche. The 997 and B8 based cars will be the first recipients.

Welcome. Interesting info - will the transmission work for both fwd and awd configurations in the longitudinal application?

 

[Mockenrue]

Thanks for the welcome. I found the site by accident when the pictures were leaked last week!

The information comes from a friend of mine who is ex-Audi and now semi retired. He has several useful contacts within Audi UK and is always a reliable source. His past predictions regarding some of the other recent new models have been pretty much spot on.

I'm hoping to go to Geneva in a couple of weeks to see the new cars. I can't wait!

 

[Mockenrue]

Welcome. Interesting info - will the transmission work for both fwd and awd configurations in the longitudinal application?

Thanks again. This I don't know, but I would imagine (and hope) so. As soon as I hear any more either way I'll post it up. Everyone is waiting with baited breath to hear more about these cars. Has anyone seen any official weights published anywhere? I haven't found any yet.