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That is Audi’s niche-busting resolution to the BMW 5-series GT: the five-door, four-seat Audi A5 Sportback. It’s an try via Ingolstadt to attraction to those that need a coupe, saloon and property all rolled into one, giving a component of every.

The Audi vary starts less than the BMW and as such supplies a thriftier front to this 4/five-door coupe.

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Audi has stored the similar suspension settings because the A5 coupe, which is round 100kg lighter than the Sportback, so be expecting the similar protected and predictable dealing with.

The Sportback does, alternatively, acquire its coupe cousin’s aluminium entrance wings, decreasing the Audi’s trademark nose-heavy riding traits.

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Audi’s Pressure Choose device is to be had in 3 other paperwork and permits the driving force to change the settings for units such because the sports activities differential, adaptive dampers and dynamic guidance. Audi will be offering a guide gearbox simplest within the access type from release.

The two.0 TFSI (178 and 208bhp) and three.2-litre FSI petrol gadgets, and a couple of.0-litre, 2.7-litre (187bhp) and three.0-litre TDI (237bhp) diesels all get a seven-speed S tronic transmission. The three.2-litre FSI petrol unit additionally will get an choice of eight-speed Multitronic auto.

An S5 Sportback with a 329bhp 3.0-litre supercharged V6 is most likely and Audi hasn’t dominated out an explosive V8 Audi RS5 model, which might see a tie-in with Porsche just like the Nineteen Nineties RS2.

The Sportback is 36mm decrease, 28mm wider and 6mm shorter than an A4. Audi admits house has been compromised rather within the five-door.

The graceful, coupe-like silhouette and steeply raked hatch all give a contribution to a drag coefficient of 0.29 for the bottom fashions. The Sportback has between 480 and 980 litres of bags house.

Deliveries get started in October and costs vary from £27,140 for the two.0 TDI guide to £34,020 for the three.0 TDI S tronic.

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