Audi is more appealing than you would assume

18/07/2008 02:03. “etheless, enough people tell me that Audi's new A5 is "all that" that I'll have to admit it must be more appealing than I think.” // Nanaimo Daily News

15/07/2008 22:05. Many manufacturers claim that their SUVs have sports car-like handling, but few high-riding 4x4s actually manage to deliver on this score. Audi's compact Q5 can. It's not a hardcore off-roader, but on-road the only other SUV that can touch it is BMW's bigger and more expensive X6 .

Audi offers a selection of high-performance engines: the new 208bhp turbocharged, direct-injection 2.0 TFSI petrol, 168bhp 2.0 TDI and 237bhp 3.0 V6 TDI and, coming later, 266bhp 3.2 FSI and 'entry-level' 178bhp 2.0 TFSI and 138bhp 2.0 TDI units. The 2.0 TFSI and 2.0 TDI initially come with the seven-speed S-tronic dual-clutch sequential-shift gearbox only.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that the Q5's simply a posher-badged... // Channel 4 News