2025 Audi A5/S5 gasses up a wiser, sharper A4 alternative for $48,995
- Redesigned 2025 Audi A5/S5 sedans exchange the Audi A4
- 2025 Audi A5 has a 268-hp turbo-4 with commonplace all-wheel drive for $48,995
- 2025 Audi S5 matches a 362-hp turbocharged 3.0-liter V-6 with all-wheel drive
Audi is altering. Not solely does the redesigned 2025 Audi A5 exchange the Audi A4 sedan which will get discontinued after 2025, it heralds the model’s new fuel platform that can underpin about 10 new fashions within the subsequent few years as a part of an unparalleled product offensive starring greater than 20 new international fashions within the subsequent two years.
Though the vast majority of these new automobiles will probably be full battery electrical fashions, Audi will not overlook combustion engine demand.
“We’ll want these automobiles to bridge to the all-electric future,” CEO Gernot Döllner mentioned at a press briefing outdoors of Munich final week, the place Audi showcased the brand new A5 and S5.
2025 Audi A5 household
The brand new A5 arrives within the spring as 2025 mannequin for the U.S., and will resurrect flagging curiosity in sedans for $48,995 together with a $1,295 vacation spot cost. However the brand new versatile platform, dubbed Premium Platform Combustion (PPC), underpinning the A5 carries extra wide-ranging purposes that will probably be employed in a spread of recent automobiles. That features the model’s bestseller within the redesigned 2025 Q5 compact crossover that is anticipated early summer season of 2025.
Combining Sportback hatchback type with roomier sedan proportions, the A5 grows bigger, wider, and incorporates a software program outlined electrical structure to assist it adapt over the following decade earlier than the model goes all electrical, on a regular basis. With out there options reminiscent of massaging seats and customizable headlight and taillight signatures, Audi positions it as a extra refined and opulent take than the A4 and even the A5 coupe that preceded it.
It will not be supplied in coupe or convertible kind, and the North American market will not get Avant wagon choices, which is able to embody Allroad and RS 5 fashions.
2025 Audi A5 S Line
2025 Audi A5 S Line
2025 Audi A5 S Line
Audi A5 and S5 design
The flexed hood dips low so you possibly can hardly see the perimeters from behind the wheel. The dip stops at a brand new entrance fascia with a big plastic honeycomb grille winged with a brand new lighting signature. The LED operating lights could be personalized into eight completely different patterns, however not when the engine is on. Blame U.S. regulators. The identical is true on the rear, the place the wraparound LED taillights product of 60 completely different bulbs underscore the built-in rear spoiler. The A5 options twin rectangular exhaust suggestions, whereas S5 fashions have quad tailpipes which are all useful, Audi tells us. The S5 and S-Line badges now each sport the pink rhombus emblem.
The total-width taillight wraps round into bulging fenders and a muscular character line operating down the physique. Tall air intakes trimmed in aluminum or a black optic package deal flank the decrease grille, which additionally has openings between the 2 radars and a number of sensors dotting the decrease physique. The lengthy nostril makes it seem as if there is a bigger dash-to-axle ratio, and the A5 is 2.6 inches longer than the A4, stretching to 190.1 inches general. The house between the entrance and rear pillars grows much more, with the wheelbase increasing by 3.1 inches to 114.1 inches. It is a few half-inch taller and wider, however general it seems sportier and extra highly effective than the A4. The toned sedan nets a coefficient of drag of 0.25.
2025 Audi S5
2025 Audi S5
2025 Audi S5
Audi A5 and S5 engine choices
Below the bulged hood will probably be a 268-hp 2.0-liter turbo-4 within the A5 and a 362-hp turbocharged 3.0-liter V-6 within the S5. Audi says the engines are extra environment friendly than their predecessors, however the North American market won’t get the mild-hybrid system and its 48-volt lithium ion phosphate battery out there in different markets. American clients don’t need the engine shutting off whereas coasting, Audi mentioned, and the EPA good points could be negligible.
It is too unhealthy as a result of this new 18-kw mild-hybrid system can propel the automobile at low speeds and provide as much as 25 kw of regen braking that might assist feed {the electrical} techniques and preserve the air-con on at stops. Its design and connection to the transmission output would clean cease/begin transitions. Different automakers, together with Mercedes-Benz and BMW, in addition to Volvo, have had no qualms about rolling out gentle hybrids in North America.
Each fashions will include a 7-speed dual-clutch computerized transmission and all-wheel drive. Hybrid and plug-in hybrid powertrains may comply with on this versatile new platform. Audi highlighted the stiffer steering and suspension mounts on the entrance axle, and adaptive dampers will probably be out there to enhance the usual steel-spring suspension. The brake torque vectoring first launched within the Q8 E-Tron guarantees to counteract understeer within the S5, which additionally incorporates a sport differential to separate torque between the rear wheels. Curb weight, floor clearance, and different North American specs had been unavailable at press time. Count on them later this summer season or early fall.
2025 Audi A5 S Line
2025 Audi A5 S Line
2025 Audi A5 S Line
Audi A5 and S5 inside house and tech
The coupe-like roofline tucks right into a hatch as an alternative of a trunk, which is among the most vital design adjustments to the midsize automotive. The A4’s sealed-off trunk held solely 12 cubic toes of stuff, whereas the brand new A5’s hatch holds as much as 24.5 cubic toes of stuff, which is almost three cubic toes greater than the outgoing A5 Sportback. It is shallow like a trunk on the rear, then expands vertically by 60:40-split rear seats that fold flat to open up a crossover-like 45.9 cubic toes. Rear seat headroom and legroom are good, although 6-footers and above would possibly really feel cramped with the out there panoramic sunroof.
The inside showcases Audi’s new software-defined electrical structure operating 5 computer systems meant to maintain the automotive and its choices as updatable as a smartphone, although hopefully it has the longevity of a automotive. The sunshine present carries over inside, with welcome and ambient lighting underscoring the hook-like wings of the sprint and the console. Comfortable-touch supplies meet the fingers and arms, and a touchpad floor on the doorways controls the mirrors, home windows, and locks; in our testing of the identical setup within the 2025 Audi Q6 E-Tron, we weren’t bought on its performance over buttons.
2025 Audi S5
We appreciated the identical “Digital Stage” that digitizes all of the automobile data throughout an intuitive panel of screens that sits low and does not distract from driving or demand futzing. The curved panoramic show begins with the crystal clear 11.9-inch digital instrument cluster that exhibits automobile data and regardless of the exterior sensors are selecting up. It holds a small message board of coloured dots and dashes that replicate what the voice assistant is processing, so if it is listening, a couple of pink dots present within the message space. The identical system within the Q6 had good constancy and, aided by AI, it may well course of greater than 800 automobile instructions and basic curiosity questions, like “What is the climate forecast at my vacation spot?” or “The place’s place to rock some schnitzel?”
The voice instructions reduce the necessity for the centerpiece of this stage, a 14.5-inch touchscreen interface that evolves Audi’s already wonderful graphics. Customers can simply press and drag apps to their desired place, rearrange data hierarchies, and customise tile shows. Beside it’s a 10.9-inch passenger touchscreen; the passenger can stream out or assist navigate and override the nav settings within the heart display by their display. One cool out there characteristic will probably be Bang & Olufsen headrest audio system that create two sound zones, one for the motive force to hearken to nav instructions, as an example, with out disrupting the audio from what the passenger could be streaming.
