2011 Audi Q5 3.2 Quatrro S-Line Review & Test Drive

‘PERFORMANCE, LUXURY AND VERSTILITY MEET AT THE CROSSROADS’ 

The 2011 Audi Q5 3.2 Quattro Tiptronic was designed to balance on the fine line between utility and desirability, by providing the ride height and visibility of a Crossover Sport Utility and the superior ride quality and competent handling characteristics of an Audi sports sedan.  It features the 3.2 liter V6 engine and world-class capability of Quattro all-wheel drive.  Easily identifiable and built with a distinctly sporty flavor, the 2011 Audi Q5 3.2 Quattro is a modern CUV for today’s driving environment.

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2011 Audi Q5 2.0T Quattro Review & Test Drive

‘ALL AHEAD WITH EIGHT SPEEDS’

Audi keeps moving ahead in 2011 bringing more innovation and automotive high-technology to all of their vehicles thus making their rides more fuel efficient and more fun-to-drive.  The Audi Q5 Quattro is designed to balance on the fine line between utility and desirability, by providing the ride height and visibility of a sport utility and the superior ride quality and competent handling characteristics of an Audi sports sedan.  Easily identifiable and built with a distinctly sporty flavor, the 2011 Audi Q5 Quattro is a modern sport utility for today’s driving environment.

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2010 Audi Q5 Review & Test Drive – A Smaller Q7

“Honey, I just checked the garage and someone shrunk the new Q7.”  Not really but the new 2010 is a smaller version of the popular Audi Q7 sport utility.

First introduced in 2009, the Q5 is a smaller, more fuel efficient, 5-passenger version of the excellent Q7.  It mimics the Q7’s design up front with Audi’s signature single-piece grille design, cat’s-eye HID headlights, LED daytime running lamps and lower bumper with round foglamps.

The Q5 is based on the current Audi A4 platform on Audi’s Modular Longitudinal Build kit.  The Q5 has sporty proportions and a muscular stance due to its long wheelbase and wide body and track.  The elimination of roof joint strips provides a high visual quality and minimized airflow. From the side you’ll notice the steeply raked windshield pillars, pull-out door handles and lower side extensions.  The rear features a wide opening hatch door dual exhaust tips below the bumper LED taillights.  Real aluminum trim is found up front, on the side around the green house and in the rear.  Audi’s passion for excellence in engineering and its hallmark of interior design, workmanship and quality materials follows its larger sibling.

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2009 Audi Q5 Identity Theft Commercials – Sorry Lexus

What Does Audi and Identity Theft Have in Common? Nothing really, except a couple of commercials to promote the new 2009 Audi Q5 which happens to attack Lexus.

We have to slightly agree with Audi’s newest commercials when they have a street lined full of Lexus RX’s all the same color. That’s about right when you venture down the streets of a US suburb. Make sure it is one that does not have too many foreclosed houses and you may run out of hands to count the number of Lexus RX’s that you see. Yes, Audi has brought to our attention as to the mass over-population of certain cars but will we really ever see as many Audi Q5’s on the road as the Lexus RX’s? Probably not, unless this stinky economy turns around abruptly and I just do not see that happening any time soon.

Enough of the jargon, here are the 2009 Audi Q5 commercials “Identity Theft” below after the jump…

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Audi Q5 Hybrid Coming Next Year

The hybrid bandwagon is filling up fast as just about every car maker has plans to release a new hybrid model in the next year or two. Audi is one of them where they plan on introducing a small SUV dubbed the Audi Q5 Hybrid. It is slated to be ready for the showroom in 2010.

Previously Automotive News reported that Audi axed the Q7 hybrid along with the Q5 but now they have confirmed through head of the powertrain development for the Volkswagen Group,, Wolfgan Hatz, that they will be offering the Audi Q5 hybrid in the USA in late 2010. In addition to this good news the Audi Q5 Hybrid will be first introduced in the USA first and then a possibility of it being sold in Europe depending on the success in the States.

[source: Automotive News]