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Audi AS5 Sportback by ABT

By Anthony Crawford |

Nobody tunes Audi and Volkswagen cars better than prestige German tuning house, ABT.

CarAdvice has driven several of their cars in Germany including the R8, AS5-R and Golf R32, and their performance in a variety of driving conditions left us breathless.

Their latest work is the new AS5 Sportback, and the power and suspension upgrades are impressive, to say the least.

Take the powerful 3.0 TDI, a superb engine in standard form developing 176kW. With ABT Power S, that figure rises to 228kW with a ground shaking 610 Newton-metres of torque, and enough to catapult the car from standstill to 100 km/h in 5.8 seconds. Not bad for a diesel.

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It’s a similar story with the 2.0 TSFI which in standard spec produces 132 kW but with the ABT power upgrade, this rises to 202 kW, in addition to a host of other sports performance upgrades to get more out of what is already a brilliant chassis.

Former DTM and Le Mans driver Christian Abt, who is responsible for all technical issues in the company, heads all development work at ABT Headquarters at Kempten, close to the beautiful Allgau Mountains.

Its worth noting that ABT has been tuning four-wheeled transport for over 100 years, so they know a thing or two about the practice.

In addition to the power upgrades for the AS5 Sportback, ABT offers ABT springs and ABT sport coilovers for superior handling as well as a variety of sports wheel packages.

ABT Tuning is represented in Australia by RamSpeed at ramspeed.com.au


 
  • Peter

    the A5 sportback is one audi that really interests me, though I dont know whether in the metal it will be as pretty as the XF. Only 4 seats though (similar to cc and CLS) which is really a killer for family guys like me – even with 2 kids, you generally get a friend of theirs along for the ride. Maybe a 5 seater at some stage?

  • http://www.motormo.com/ Rob

    Ugh, what’s with the front bumper?

  • Car Enthusiast

    Although I think this is a pretty good car, I still got to ask this question.

    What is the point of the AUDI A5/S5 Sportback?

    I mean Whats wrong with a A4/S4 other than the fact that this car is a bit sleeker, and probably slighly more roomier, plus it doesn’t look that much different than a S4 anyway. And I bet the S5 sportback cost way more than a S4.

    Should we expect a sportwagon version of the S5 soon?

    I’d much rather just stick to the coupe version of this car

  • Alan

    It’s not that bad if you compare it with other ABT Audi sytlings.

  • Jig

    The tuning arm of ABT is world class. Styling however is an individual taste. Although I dont mind the ABT styling for the Q5. The ABT R8 body styling is not as free flow as MTM but like I said, i would rather have the ABT tuning than MTM.

  • http://Audi.com Terril

    IT ROCKS DUDE!

  • http://www.autochart.net Cheap used cars

    The shark gills look like an afterthought on an otherwise cool finish. Rear better resolved than front end