Thursday 12th April 2007

New A5 with 'der sporty feeling'

Audi's A5 gets the S line treatment

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Audi S5

Audi has released details of the S line package for its forthcoming big coupé, the A5. The kit has been developed as usual by quattro GmbH, the firm’s performance wing.

The ‘S line sports package plus’ consists of a sports suspension package with a 10mm drop in ride height and a choice of either five-spoke 18-inch alloy wheels or 19-inch 20-spoke designs. A 20-inch seven-spoke option will follow later in the year.

Inside, sports seats are fitted with electrically adjustable lumbar support, and are upholstered in either half or full nappa leather with embossed ‘S’ logo, or an Alcantara/leather mix. Silver stitching is used throughout the interior. A three spoke sports leather steering wheel, cabin inlays in brushed aluminium and S line door sill trims complete the usual Audi interior touches. Misano red and Avus silver are exclusive colours for the new trim level.

Audi A5

The exterior pack comprises unique front and rear bumpers and side vent grilles, with the diffuser insert and lower part of the grill area finished in platinum grey. No pictures are available yet, but contrasting the standard A5 with S5 models should give you a fair idea...

[Gamekeeper]

...think I'll wait for the orange Abt-tuned version

[edb49]

How long for an RS5 I wonder?

[gizmo.mp3]

edb49 said:

How long for an RS5 I wonder?

Not long enough for me to save up for one, I suspect .
Would rather have that than an M3 any day... even the new M3

[pasthim]

Looks nice but I am still not convinced about who wants such a big two door exec.

[kambites]

pasthim said:

Looks nice but I am still not convinced about who wants such a big two door exec.

Well people seem to buy the 6-series, there's millions of them around.

[Vodka Margarine]

I like it, a good looking alternative to BMW

[ukross]

kambites said:

pasthim said:

Looks nice but I am still not convinced about who wants such a big two door exec.

Well people seem to buy the 6-series, there's millions of them around.

Being based on the A4, is this not a BMW 3-er size car??

[kambites]

ukross said:

kambites said:

pasthim said:

Looks nice but I am still not convinced about who wants such a big two door exec.

Well people seem to buy the 6-series, there's millions of them around.

Being based on the A4, is this not a BMW 3-er size car??

It looks bigger than that to me although maybe that's just a trick of the pictures. Then again isn't the A4 based on the Golf platform? It's certainly bigger than a Golf

[ec523]

Better than the R8, for now maybe they will bling it too...

I like this one, so to the guys that did what they did to the R8...

LEAV OFF... STAY AWAY...DO NOT TOUCH.... etc etc etc..............

This one is in the bag, my bro has a TT and I dislike that with a passion but this might just switch me from the m5 ummm (mid life crisis maybe) but it looks almost exclusive.

[maxxm]

Gamekeeper said:

...think I'll wait for the orange Abt-tuned version

Right. And perhaps lose the fish-mouth grille, too....

[hunttheshunt]

[kawasicki]

it's an A4 coupe. In the metal it seems to be artificially curvy, the coke bottle shape doesn't seem to work!

shane

[Frank1e]

Is it just me but doesn't the A5 with a black goatee look better than the S5 with a silver goatee?

The silver one is too Jaguar XJ for my liking.

[Bill Carr]

Frank1e said:

Is it just me but doesn't the A5 with a black goatee look better than the S5 with a silver goatee?

[jon-]

Nice <GENERIC AUDI SLINE>

[saabruff]

I THINK IT LOOKS HEAVY! FAT! STICK ON A SET OF DIFFERENT ALLOYS 20" SLIGHT TINT WINDOWS AND MAGIC YOU HAVE A SWEET MOTOR,3.0 TDI GET A RE-MAP AND IN REAL WORLD AS QUICK AS THE S5.

[Gingerbread Man]

The capslock really isn't that far away. I thought there was talk of only the '4 and '6 lines having RS variants? Which is why we won't have the pleasure of an RS3 etc. Or an RS8 - that would be nice .

[danmangt40]

go to automobilemag.com and check their studio pix. I think they are the first ones I've seen that give a true sense of the scale of the car. The styling is deceiving, it's about the same size as a 335 and smaller than a CLK!

[bigbcraig]

Bill Carr said:

Frank1e said:

Is it just me but doesn't the A5 with a black goatee look better than the S5 with a silver goatee?

so im not the only one.....

[skyggen957]

kawasicki said:

it's an A4 coupe. In the metal it seems to be artificially curvy, the coke bottle shape doesn't seem to work!

shane

Agreed. The curves seem too affected, as though they were stuck on afterthoughts. When I buy german cars, I want disciplined hard lines, if I want curves, I'll buy italian.