As the entry-level version in the 2017 Audi Q5 range, the 2.0 TDI design model doesn't set any new benchmarks – but that could be exactly what you want.
While it may not look all that different, the all-new Audi Q5 brings with it a revitalised driving experience and loads of technology.
Audi has pulled out all stops on its new-generation Q5 to ensure it regains its market-leading position against some stiff competition. Is it enough?
Redesigned and enhanced for 2017, Audi hopes the Q5 can continue its incredible sales success in Australia. Clever tech additions as well as styling tweaks ensure the new model stays fresh.
See the full article here. The all-new second-generation Audi Q5 has very big shoes to fill, if it is to achieve anywhere near the success of its world-beating predecessor. From 2009 to 2015 the Audi Q5 was the world’s most successful SUV in its class. It was also Audi’s single biggest seller, at least as a body style, trumped only by the far broader A3 range...
The new Q5 is bigger but lighter than the car it replaces. While the looks are conservative, the car has plenty of technology brought down from the larger Q7 to ensure it becomes a really powerhouse in the premium mid-size SUV segment.
SUVs are such a widely accepted part of the automotive landscape these days that few batted an eyelid when Jaguar, after 80-odd years of racing cars, and manufacturing sporty coupes and sports sedans, released the F-Pace soft-roader in 2016. (And this, after years of denying it would tread on sister company Land Rover’s toes, of course...
Luxury car makers absolutely love producing mid-sized SUVs based on passenger-car platforms, because aspirational upper-middle class family types are buying them in droves. The newest entrant to the class is Audi's second-generation Q5, which pairs clinical design with cutting-edge cabin tech and typically Teutonic execution...
Considering luxury SUVs are big business, the Lexus NX can’t be accused of being rushed to market. It’s more than a decade since Toyota’s luxury division introduced its last new SUV, the GX that is a spruced-up Prado and never sold in Australia. You then have to go back into the 1990s for the (LandCruiser-based) LX and (Highlander-based) RX...
Australia appears likely to sign a revised Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, ending the five per cent import duty imposed on cars from Mexico and Canada in the process. The agreement, dubbed the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, has been revived after a backflip from Justin Trudeau, Canadian Prime Minister, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland...
A slew of new European SUVs have been awarded five-star safety ratings by independent crash-testing authority ANCAP this week - including the Audi Q2 and Q5, Mini Countryman and Skoda Kodiaq. Both the Audi Q2 and Q5 received praise for their autonomous emergency braking (AEB) systems, which operate at speeds of up to 85km/h and feature pedestrian detection technology...
Audi Australia has issued a recall for 9098 examples of its 2010 to 2016 Q5 SUVs over concerns vehicles fitted with a panoramic sunroof could spring a water leak and activate the curtain airbag. The German luxury marque reports the foam adjacent to the gas generator of the curtain airbag can become wet if moisture accumulates over time...
The all-new second-generation 2017 Audi Q5 has landed well ahead of customer car deliveries in June, promising to be better than its predecessor in every way. Audi’s best-selling SUV ever has been further honed, with an edgier design, more space and more advanced engines, as well as more technology to regain its market-leading position...
I have access to drive a few 2012 models cars, including my own 2012 Mazda CX7 luxury sports, Renault Megane Sport RS 250 and a couple of friends/ family who own some new cars. One of them is my brother in law, who owns the 2012 Audi Q5, 2.0 TDI. Optional packs he has added: 1. Navigation Pack 2. S Line Exterior (20" inch alloys and other shiny bits and pieces) 3...
Standing next to the petrol-powered Q5, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a diesel. So is the rapid tick-tick-tick of direct injection. Cruising around, the effortless powertrain shifts up between 1800-2100 RPM, slipping into seventh at seventy. Sadly at these revs, a diesel-like note is omnipresent...
