Audi will obstacle the likes of the Mercedes GLC Coupe and BMW X4 with the launch of a huge coupe-SUV of its personal in 2020, identified as Q5 Sportback.
The newcomer will element most of the revised Q5’s cosmetic and technological know-how updates, alongside with a new sloping roofline and a redesigned tailgate impressed by the firm’s flagship Q8 SUV.
Our spy photographers have noticed the new Q5 Sportback yet again, this time using on managing checks at the Nurburgring.
Like the conventional Q5, Audi’s new Sportback design should really also element new LED headlamps, a revised entrance bumper with larger intakes and slightly narrower radiator grille. At the rear, the lights technique should really have a comparable style to the conventional car’s, but modified to accommodate the wants of the reprofiled tailgate.
Hotter S and RS variations in the vary will also achieve an Audi A1-style triple-vent style at the main edge of the bonnet, which pays homage to the initial Quattro coupe, alongside with a more intense physique package, larger alloy wheels and tailgate spoiler.
The Sportback’s inside will be transferred wholesale from the conventional facelifted Q5. As these types of, equipment will involve heated entrance athletics seats, a few-zone local weather manage, cruise manage, a larger 10.1-inch touchscreen infotainment technique and a new storage bin in place of the outdated car’s rotary manage knob.
Like all Volkswagen Team solutions, the Q5 Sportback’s solutions listing will be considerable. Customers will be provided a customisable inside ambient lights pack, a head-up exhibit and an current version of the Audi’s twelve.three-inch electronic gauge cluster, which the company claims has 10 instances the computing ability of the unit fitted to the outdated Q5.
New Audi Q5 Sportback: engines and drivetrains
As the facelifted Q5 and new Q5 Sportback will equally share the identical MQB underpinnings, the latter will reward from the former’s updates. Uk purchasers should really have a option of a few powertrains – all of which will be mated to Audi’s quattro all-wheel travel technique and element some variety delicate-hybrid technological know-how.
The entry-stage design will be powered by an enhanced version of the conventional SUV’s two.-litre 4-cylinder diesel engine which, many thanks to a new belt-pushed integrated starter-generator delicate-hybrid technique, will create 201bhp and 400Nm of torque. For the conventional Q5, Audi also fitted a lighter aluminium crankcase and a lighter crankshaft, shaving 22.5kg of excess weight off the engine – and these revisions will be carried onto the Sportback design.
Customers should really also obtain an enhanced version of Audi’s turbocharged two.-litre 4-cylinder 45 TFSI petrol unit. The powertrain will be fitted with the identical delicate-hybrid technological know-how, which has greater the unit’s ability figure from 242bhp to 261bhp.
Finally, Audi’s forthcoming flagship SQ5 Sportback will element an upgraded version of the identical three.-litre V6 petrol engine identified in the outdated SQ5 SUV. It’ll be fitted with a more potent forty eight-volt delicate-hybrid technique, which should really supply an improvement above the conventionally pushed unit’s 349bhp output – whilst formal performance figures are however to be confirmed.
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