2025 Audi Q5 teased forward of Sept. 2 debut
- New Audi Q5 debuts on Sept. 2, 2024
- New Audi Q5 will use the Premium Platform Combustion (PPC) structure
- Powertrains within the new Q5 must be shared with the brand new A5
Audi is near revealing the third era of its Q5 compact crossover, and to assist construct pleasure the automaker has launched a teaser sketch exhibiting the design of the headlight.
Audi has confirmed the covers will come off on Sept. 2, although gross sales aren’t anticipated to start out till subsequent spring or early subsequent summer season. The brand new Q5 is predicted to reach as a 2025 mannequin within the U.S.
Camouflaged prototypes have been noticed testing in public for greater than a 12 months. The common crossover physique fashion will likely be launched first however a extra coupe-like Q5 Sportback can also be deliberate.
The prototypes level to the brand new Q5 taking up a way more dramatic look than the considerably conservatively styled present era. Nonetheless, the scale seems to be about the identical. The headlight within the teaser is seen with a pixel design for the daytime working mild ingredient which can seemingly be configurable in some markets, just like what Audi launched within the Q6 E-Tron electrical compact crossover.
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The brand new Q5 is not an EV. It has been developed round a Volkswagen Group platform generally known as the Premium Platform Combustion (PPC), which debuted in July in a new A5 hatchback. The platform helps hybrid and plug-in hybrid powertrains, although the Q5 is not anticipated to characteristic this at launch, no less than within the U.S.
The powertrains for the U.S. market ought to match these introduced for the brand new A5. This implies a 2.0-liter turbo-4 within the Q5 and a 362-hp turbocharged 3.0-liter V-6 in a sportier SQ5. The only transmission must be a 7-speed dual-clutch computerized, and all-wheel drive will even seemingly be commonplace within the U.S., which is the case for the present era.
For the inside, the design will seemingly be the identical as what Audi makes use of within the A5, that means a curved panel angled towards the motive force and integrating an 11.9-inch digital gauge cluster and a 14.5-inch for the Android-based infotainment system.
The Q5 for North America is at present manufactured at Audi’s plant in Mexico, and the brand new era is predicted to be produced there as properly.
