A5/S5/RS5 [Official] 2017 Audi A5 Sportback

[Rainer271]

Matador Red

Source: Audi Deutschland

 

[DJRaze99]

Uh, I have the impression that the lump looks heavily,especially in parts of the hips ...

 

[Fido]

I respect the tastes and preferences of people, but I do not understand how can like this car. It is virtually the same as the previous model (if with the current model someone could change headlights and taillights without replacing body panels, it would be perfect and many much money would be saved) ...

I sincerely believe that Audi deceives its customers with designs that do not seem evolutions, but a simple facelift

 

[donkeykong]

I respect the tastes and preferences of people, but I do not understand how can like this car. It is virtually the same as the previous model (if with the current model someone could change headlights and taillights without replacing body panels, it would be perfect and many much money would be saved) ...

I sincerely believe that Audi deceives its customers with designs that do not seem evolutions, but a simple facelift

I respectfully disagree and cannot understand how you still maintain that it looks like the previous model, when it clearly does not.

 

[Porsche Guy]

Without the curving character line the car would look bland. It know it's a feature that divide opinions but I have always liked it - even on the R8 cabriolet. It adds romance to a very masculine car.

The A7 looks great with a straight crease along the side.

 

[hoffmeister_fan]

The SB is not a bad looking car, but it's plagued with Audi's design language. It's inoffensive, but for a fair-weather Audi fan, such as myself, it's just getting long in the tooth.

 

[Centurion]

The SB is not a bad looking car, but it's plagued with Audi's design language. It's inoffensive, but for a fair-weather Audi fan, such as myself, it's just getting long in the tooth.

I hear ya. I for one can't stand the new Audi A4 and don't expect this A5 to be an exciting car when the new 4 series debuts in a few years.

 

[hoffmeister_fan]

I hear ya. I for one can't stand the new Audi A4 and don't expect this A5 to be an exciting car when the new 4 series debuts in a few years.

I was pretty disappointed upon the A4 release, but suprisingly it has grown on me with time. Though I don't see that happening with the SB, as the A4 looks sleeker than the puffier SB. Lichte and his team really need to do something bolder with their design, it's just entirely too safe and predicatable.

 

[Gianclaudio]

HORRIBLE!

Once a horrrible car, always a horrible car.

 

[hannaz]

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[Deleted member 1071]

Admittedly harboring an affinity for Audi, I do find myself somewhat disappointed regarding the new A5 lines' aesthetic qualities. Hardly "horrible". Simply less inspiring than I would have hoped.

I find a degree of consolation in the fact that the new A5 line is "Egger-designed/Lichte-tweaked". The first genuine Marc Lichte-designed Audi will be the new A8 due early next year. Hopefully, it will carry over much of what makes the Prologue concepts such attractive automobiles.

 

[khabah]

Admittedly harboring an affinity for Audi, I do find myself somewhat disappointed regarding the new A5 lines' aesthetic qualities. Hardly "horrible". Simply less inspiring than I would have hoped.

I find a degree of consolation in the fact that the new A5 line is "Egger-designed/Lichte-tweaked". The first genuine Marc Lichte-designed Audi will be the new A8 due early next year. Hopefully, it will carry over much of what makes the Prologue concepts such attractive automobiles.

I don't understand what the deal with Marc Lichte and his design influence is. As far as I know, the only cars that were too late for him to get a handle on were the Q7, A4, TT and R8. The Q7 underwent its "emergency redesign" and still came out underwhelming, the A4 is a safe but dull composition [and I supposed it spawned the related A5 line], the TT and R8 look like facelifts to the untrained eye... And hey, wasn't the Q2 redesigned a few times with the final chamfered iteration being an all-Lichte work?

From what we can all tell, the MIA new Q5 will also look like a very subtle update of the current one, perhaps with a bit more chrome, more LEDs and that strong, wavy character line. If the excuse to keep all these designs "safe" and save the real surprises for the new A8 onwards, then what's the point? The bread and butter models are the models in the bottom and middle range of Audi's offerings, so putting out cars that look like mild updates is lazy and uninspiring. [at the risk of being ripped into for this comment] I mean really, who does Audi think they are, BMW?

khabah

 

[Fido]

I respectfully disagree and cannot understand how you still maintain that it looks like the previous model, when it clearly does not.

Really you see anything truely new? It's an evolution of the design. The C-Class or the 3-Series are completely differents between generations. For example, between E90 and F30. In Audi not..

 

[MarcinM]

Looks good but still nothing beats the clean looking lines of the A7, shame that Audi did not follow the A7 rear end styling with this car.

BTW guys do not get your hopes up with the A8, the huuuuuge front overhang will aesthetically completely destroy that car.

For instance Q7 mrk 1 had front overhand of 943 mm (it was based on a basically a shared Tuareg/Cayenne mrk 1 RWD/AWD platform. The new Q7 has a 978 mm front overhang (it is based on the latest Audi MLB2 FWD/AWD platform)

The previous gen Audi A4 had 862 mm front over hang (Audi claimed in 2007 that it spend massive amount of money on R&D to shorten the overhang to make it look more like a RWD car) however most of that R&D money went to waste as the current A4, which based on the MLB2 platform has a 880 mm front overhang.

2002 A8 has a 971 mm front overhang, the 2010 model already grown its overhang to 1003 mm.

Audi stylists are seriously loosing the proportion war with audi engineers who are becoming more and more lazy. Even a 30 mm change is visible and seriously impacts on cars appearance.

 

[Rainer271]

Navarra Blue

Source: Audi Deutschland

 

[donkeykong]

Really you see anything truely new? It's an evolution of the design. The C-Class or the 3-Series are completely differents between generations. For example, between E90 and F30. In Audi not..

I see a brand new grill, head lights and front bumper just for starters. No need to keep going actually.. but then again you are on record saying that the A4 and A5 are nearly identical, when it is clear that they are not.

 

[martinbo]

Oh come on people - that's pretty darn nice!

 

[Rolf]

New Sportback vs old Sportback

Pre FL previous model (best looking A5 in my opinion)

FL previous model

 

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