Q5 [Official] The new Audi Q5

[domleo999]

BTW, what is the difference between sport quattro and quattro ultra?

Does what the press release say means that sport quattro is torsen and quattro ultra is haldex?

I think the Quattro ultra refers to the haldex system, which debuted on the A4.

I prefer to call this system, the S*it Quattro

 

[LaArtist]

Pretty boring looking.

 

[martinbo]

Faultless. To a fault.

Audi's exterior design language is as established and consistent as any other German makers.
This new Q5 will have Audi's customers in raptures. The exterior is great - as a mainstream SUV it doesn't need to be anything more - and the interior is leagues ahead of anything else in the class.

This is a winner. Oh and hey, BMW, how far away is your new X3 because the GLC and Q5 are murdering that old banger of yours.

 

[hoffmeister_fan]

I like to consider myself a bit more informed regarding cars than the average person, but just looking at the Q5 from this vantage point I'd think it's the first gen Q5. It may very well be a great car underneath, but I am absolutely underwhelmed with this, and moreso than when the current gen A4 debuted. But unlike the A4 I doubt I will be walking back some of the initial criticism I had.

 

[EnI]

What a great "Meh!"

 

[Fido]

I have read the X2's thread and I thik someone has asked if BMW's designers had any problem to do the X2. I do the same question for Audi. Someone told me that the new A5 was a completely new model, I know, but one new model doesn't have to show the same design from the last model but only updated. Looks like a restlying.

And this Q5 looks like a restlying from the still current model.

Yes, the current Q5 has sold many units in the world and this will do too, but I hope anything truely new. This not.

 

[Fido]

Yes, donkeykong, my comment is old, but it's that I feel with Audi. It is boring!!

 

[donkeykong]

Loud and clear

 

[Rolf]

Nothing great to look at, just like the new A5 Audi have made the nose longer and the rest of the body look like the previous Q5. It is not as pretty as the previous model, the front grill makes it more muscular but it could just be a facelift of the current model, it doesn't look like a new model. Interior is nice but it's a copy paste of the A4/A5.

I still think the Mercedes GLC looks better outside and inside than the new Q5

 

[Monster]

Interesting, so the new Q5 will be manufactured in Mexico, will the engines and gearbox still be coming from Germany?

 

[martinbo]

Rolf, I disagree with just about everything in your post.

Interior is nice but it's a copy paste of the A4/A5.

Nope it's not - check again. And, even if you pick out similarities, one has to ask, if you've just gone and done the best interior in the class how much more can be expected?

I still think the Mercedes GLC looks better outside and inside than the new Q5

Subjective; the GLC looks great from the outside, but for many people - me included - Merc's baroque styling direction in their interiors isn't quite the bee's knees that everyone's making it out to be. In fact, it's the GLC's interior that is a direct copy-paste of the C-Klasse and it's kind of out-of-keeping with the portrayed ruggedness of an SUV no?
What is a fact is that the handsome GLC looks like a Merc and the sharp Q5 looks like an Audi. Job done.

it could just be a facelift of the current model, it doesn't look like a new model

Put them side by side and I feel that you will soon appreciate the differentiating progression.

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Side note: people, it's becoming apparent, no? We're seeing the German car makers taking a more conservative stylistic approach with established and - more so - traditional models. The more entrenched and traditional the model, e.g. a midsized saloon, the more conservative the approach, leaving designers to exercise greater creative license with new (typically crossover) models' design language. @Busty and @JPATT93 - I would love to have your considered and informed views on this theory of mine.

Of course. there are exceptions to the rule, and the new Audi A8 is expected to at least usher in a new design language in terms of frontal DRG for Audi (whilst simultaneously sticking to a very familiar silhouette and set of proportions). I think Audi recognises that it needs to shake up things in its styling portfolio and has elected to do so with the A8 in order to differentiate it from the very conservative S-Class and 7er protagonists. I think it's a calculated risk.

In the meanwhile, for established models, the order of the day coming out of Germany is: if it ain't broke...

 

[klier]

Seriously, who let this guy go to photoshoot with these shoes?

Uhm, those pants feel left out and are worthy of a mention too!

 

[Rolf]

It looks a bit better in this video, but the front grill will take getting used to, it looks like a mini Q7 in the front.

Interior is nice, Audi also seems to be putting in the Ipad type looking screen that does not slide into the cockpit but is stuck on the top, ala Mercedes style.

@martinbo you right, looking at the details the interior is not actually a copy paste of the A4/A5, it has different shaped vents and also the dash top has a different contour, its not just flat and straight.

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[Rolf]

New Q5 vs old Q5, can you spot the difference?

New one is sharper looking with more defined lines, but the previous model was more pure in its design.

 

[domleo999]

It does just look like a sharper version of the previous. I like it a lot - just what it needs to be, but not boring like the Q7.

 

[martinbo]

New Q5 vs old Q5, can you spot the difference?

Is that a rhetorical question? I hope it is.

 

[montana]

This car looks very boring in my opinion. And that crease on the side nearly ruins the whole car for me (just like with the A5). The interior on the other hand is very exciting indeed. I wonder how it compares to the GLC, quality wise...

 

[Rolf]

Is that a rhetorical question? I hope it is.

I hope most people don't have to put on their goggles to answer that! Probably in real life they do have some kind of resemblance but are totally different. The new A4 is noticeable for that, at first in pictures it appears like a FL of the old model, but see it in the flesh and then it does look totally different yet it does have some familiar styling ques.

 

[Giannis]

New Q5 vs old Q5, can you spot the difference?

Even though I hate the first gen Q5 with passion, I strongly disagree there my friend Rolf.

You see, Audi took the typical road of maintaining the same overall dimensions and playing with the details. The new Q5 has the same overall figure as the previous generation, the same way that the F30 still has the typical long-hood-cab-backwards silhouette, as found in the E90 and E46.

 

[mod9]

There is something quite not right with the new Audi design, I was looking at the new A4 next to the old one and thought to myself, if I were an Audi can it were to suddenly decide to buy one, I would definitely but the older one purely on the looks.

This Q5 has that same "wrong" face for me.