The 2025 Audi Q5 is the newest challenger to the brand new BMW X3 within the luxurious mid-size SUV market, with the third-generation mannequin launching in a single day.
Changing the seven-year outdated Q5 which turned one in every of Audi’s hottest fashions, the brand new SUV brings sharp seems to be and new know-how.
Audi Australia is but to verify when the brand new Q5 is due in showrooms.
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The Q5’s exterior adopts Audi’s new design language, with skinny LED headlights, a large grille with built-in quantity plate holder, and a full-width OLED brake gentle on the again.
Audi has to date proven off the Q5 and SQ5, which proceed to share comparable seems to be, with the latter adopting extra performance-oriented highlights with darkish exterior accents.
Inside, the cabin’s options are angled in direction of the driving force, with a squared-off steering wheel sitting in entrance of a 11.9-inch digital instrument cluster, housed in the identical unit as a 14.5-inch infotainment touchscreen.
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The local weather controls have now moved from a standalone panel to now being built-in into the infotainment display, whereas thinner central air vents sit forward of simplified automobile controls together with the beginning/cease button.
Audi has additionally changed the Q5’s conventional gear selector with a push-button panel which additionally homes the electrical parking brake change.
A pair of entrance USB-C charging ports may be optioned abroad to ship 60 watts of energy, whereas the rear pair can provide as much as 100 watts of energy – sufficient to cost some fashionable laptops.
The brand new Q5’s rear seat is totally adjustable, able to shifting forwards and being tilted. With the rear seats folded, Audi says there’s 1473L of boot capability, a discount on the present Q5’s 1520L declare.
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Baggage compartment
Underneath the bonnet, Audi is providing three mild-hybrid assisted engines within the Q5 abroad at launch, all of that are mated to a seven-speed dual-clutch automated transmission.
The entry-level turbocharged 2.0-litre four-cylinder petrol engine produces 150kW of energy and 340Nm of torque, out there with both front- or all-wheel drive.
Only one turbo-diesel is on supply, a carry-over 2.0-litre with 150kW and 400Nm, mated solely to an all-wheel drive system.
The SQ5 is now a petroleum mannequin quite than diesel, with its 3.0-litre V6 creating as much as 270kW and 550Nm – a achieve of 19kW however lack of 150Nm.
Metal springs, passive dampers and progressive steering are commonplace within the Q5, with the SQ5 benefitting from lowered sports activities suspension. Non-compulsory is an air suspension setup with adaptive dampers.
Customary security tools features a reversing digital camera with distance show, cruise management, a pace limiter, lane departure warning and driver consideration monitoring.
Abroad, the Q5 is out there with non-obligatory security enhancements, together with site visitors signal recognition, adaptive cruise management, lane-keep help, entrance emergency brake help, evasion help, junction help and entrance cross-traffic help.
All examples of the brand new Audi Q5 for Europe and Australia can be inbuilt Mexico.
Costs of the Q5 in Germany have elevated by 4.5 to six per cent in comparison with its predecessor, with the brand new mannequin now ranging from €52,300 (A$85,355) – a €2350 (A$3835) rise.
The flagship SQ5 has gone up by €5000 ($5160), priced from €82,900 (A$135,300).
In Australia, the Audi Q5 at present begins at $73,400 earlier than on-road prices for the bottom Q5 35 TDI, whereas the SQ5 begins from $119,084 earlier than on-roads.
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