2010 Audi A5 Sportback: A Look Inside The Hatch

While it's not a full vehicle reveal, under the guise of "quality testing example," we get a look inside the hind end of Audi's upcoming A5 Sportback five door. Yep, sure is a hatchback. [Carscoop]

ABT Audi AS5-R Lays Down 510 HP

We were getting seriously tired of seeing dolled-up German tuner cars without a whiff of additional grunt. Thankfully, the ABT Audi AS5-R adds a big stinkin' turbo for 510 HP to match the new looks. More »

2010 Audi A5 And S5 Convertibles Drop Their Tops

The twins took their tops off this week in preparation for the Geneva Motor Show. Click inside to see the new 2010 Audi A5 Convertible and its high-po sibling, the 2010 Audi S5 Convertible. More »

B.J Novak Picks Up An Audi A5

We know Andy duels with a Prius and Dwight rolls in a 1987 Pontiac Trans Am, and now it looks like The Office co-star Ryan (B.J. Novak) just picked up an Audi A5. More »

Audi Surpasses 1 Million Mark In Annual Global Sales

Despite the gloomy Carpocalypse that has the rest of the automotive landscape in shambles; Audi AG has posted a record number of sales for 2008. More »

2009 Audi A7 Breaks Its Elusive Cover

Looks like the Audi A5 isn't the only one stirring things up lately. WorldCarFans has posted spy photos they claim to be the long (looooong) rumored Audi A7. Their spy shots look like a test mule wearing an A6 suit that's a little bit too small but we still like what we see. The track is stretched a bit as is the wheelbase, the interior is very reminiscent of the A8 but sports a revised dash and *gasp*, a cloth interior. That probably won't be making it into US production models (whenever that happens). More »

Audi A5 Sportback Possibly in Works

AutoBild is reporting (in German) that in calendar week 13 of 2009, Audi has a new model in the werks dubbed the A5 Sportback. Little is known about this possible new offering, but Autobild is going against the prevailing wisdom that the Sportback will be a wagon-like offering, saying it will compete in the emerging swoopy sedan category currently populated by the Mercedes CLS, pending Porsche Panamera and recently revealed Volkswagen Passat CC. While we're on the subject of the Passat CC, if this speculation is accurate, we're thinking this is V-Dub doing it's platform prostitution best with that new curvy roof line. We'll keep our ear to the ground for more details. [Autobild [translated] via Germancarblog]

Abt Audi AS5 turbodiesel ich bin Bat Guano

A few months back we told you about the Abt AS5 which is a tweaked version of Audi's 3.0-liter TDI A5. Well guess what? They went even harder. Horsepower, originally up from 240 to 272 hp, is now an even 300 ponies. But the real news is the torque. Are you sitting down? Yeah? OK: 442 ft-lbs. of the stuff. From a 3.0-liter engine!! Wasn't it not long ago that heavy duty one-ton pickups stonked way, way less twist? All that torque shows up at 2,400 rpm, 60 mph happens in 5.3 seconds on the car's way to a 164 mph top speed. It always bears repeating: Americans buy horsepower but drive torque. Can we get some decent diesels over here, or what? [via Motor Authority]

Audi A5 E85 Edition Spotted In San Francisco

The folks at CNet's Crave blog were out driving an Infiniti G37 on the curve-tastic streets of San Francisco when they came across a brand-spanking new, and as-of-this-moment unavailable, Audi A5. Even more strange was the car was branded with white lettering declaring that it runs on E85 and that it was powered by the 2-liter turbocharged Euro engine instead of the 3.2-liter V6 it'll have when it comes stateside next year. [via Crave]

Renderings Of The Audi A5 and S5 Sportback

We love how Audi just can't stop themselves with the new models. 18 new ones in the coming years is the official company line. Here's one: Looking like the unholy offspring of an A3, a Dodge Magnum and a Mercedes-Benz CLS, somehow this rendering S5 looks pretty good to our wagon loving eyes. Sure, the A4 Avant and A6 Avants are fine cars. No, to our knowledge their will not be an A5 sedan. Why then an A5 station wagon Sportback? Meine Brüder, why the hell not? The Sportback should be wider, taller and more slanty than the A4 Avant. Oh, and hopefully they'll figure out the damn battery for a US bound RS5. [Motor Authority]

Abt Audi AS5

Audi tuning shop Abt sent word of a new tweaker package for Audi's new A5. It's the AS5, and it includes such add-ons as a front skirt with a grid element that suggests the single-frame grill, side intake gills, rear spoiler and the rear skirt insert. The 3.0 TDI engine, Abt says, gets a significant "power treatment" that ups power from 240 hp to 272 hp — with an extra Abt turbocharger, power reaches 300. Underneath is an adjustable sports suspension, Abt brake system with a disc diameter of 380 millimeters and — in the rendering — the company's AR wheel, available for the A5 in the sizes from 18 to 20 inch. Gilding the lily, or painting the fence? You make the call. More »

New York Auto Show: Audi S5 Midtown Tousled Hair Piano Bash

The Audi with Italian passion in red was unveiled to a well dressed New York crowd last night. The photographer for the new ad campaign explained why square digital pixels could not capture the true curvy detail of the S5, and why she used film instead. Famous chef David Bouley served up shot glasses half full of cream of mushroom soup. Impossibly tall waitresses served up some manner of organic cocktail which leveraged key core competency moving into the gala evening. We left and got a New York strip, and broccoli rabe. – Mike Bumbeck More »

Spy Photos: Audi A5 in Simi Valley

Our new buddy Zack caught sight of this jet-black Audi A5 on Route 118 in Simi Valley, California. Maybe it's on its way back from a weekend visiting the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, or perhaps the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza where its pilot showed up too early to take in the Shields & Yarnell Reunion Tour. Maybe he even stopped by the Stagecoach Inn Museum to eyeball its collection of adobe huts. Sounds like a hell of a weekend for whichever earlybird got a ride in Audi's new coupe. Still, however the weekend passed, the A5 does look simply smashing in black. – Mike Spinelli More »

Spy Photos: Audi S5 on the 'Bahn

The blogistas at Luxvelocity found a clip of the new Audi S5 cruising the 'bahn in casually disinterested style. It didn't take off, weaving through traffic to escape the interlopers, meaning it's just some vip out for a pre-production cruise. Still, the new coupe does give off an air of what-the- f***-are-you-numbskulls-looking-at. Maybe that's been designed in. – Mike Spinelli More »

Geneva Premiere: Audi A5/S5

GENEVA — Audi's former chief designer Walter d'Silva told the gathered mob here the Audi A5 is the most beautiful car he's designed in his career. We're inclined to agree, considering the original Alfa 156 hasn't aged as well as we thought it would. Nonetheless, it can't be underestimated what an achievement the A5/S5 is in this age when designers generally have no clue what to do with a two-door model that's not a supercar. (We're looking at you, Toyota Solara.) Look for it parked in front of a 12th century apartment complex near you, beginning this summer. – Mike Spinelli More »

Now It's Official: Audi A5, S5 Revealed

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Audi S5 Images Revealed

Information wanting to be free and all that, another set of Audi photos leaked earlier today. They're some press shots of the S5, the A5's sportier, likely V8-powered sibling. Insiders are split on whether the S model will debut alongside the A5 at the Geneva show next month. Nonetheless, most believe it'll be powered by the company's sublime 4.2-liter V8 and come in DSG and six-speed configurations. We'll have more as it leaks. Shots of the RS5 later today? Anyone? – Mike Spinelli More »

Audi A5 Images Go Netward Ahead of Geneva Reveal

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Approximation of Bruce: A5 Still Coming to Geneva in March

The folks over at Fourtitude have come up with some digital ideas of what the Audi A5 might look like when it rolls out of the fog and into the Geneva Auto Show next month. Audi officials are evidently bristling with such confidence that they plan on releasing both the Super Bruce S version and base model concurrently. Speculation also has it the 4.2L eight pot mill could be tweaked to kick out 390 horsepower through judicious use of Aluminum, und Schteel. – Mike Bumbeck More »

View from the Top: Audi Launches A5 Microsite

It's just over a month until Audi unveils the new A5 coupe at the Geneva show, and the company's just launched a teaser microsite. Fans who register for updates can be further bedeviled with an overhead shot of the new coupe, which it's said will look quite a bit like the Nuvolari Quattro concept from 2003. No word on what cute viral-marketing scheme might go along with the launch, but we're hoping for an online game of Capture the Flag. – Mike Spinelli More »

Spy Photos: Yes, Still More on the Audi A5

The latest spy shots of the Audi A5 coupe come from the land of the midnight sun. No, not Camden, New Jersey. It's the Arctic Circle, where giant, roof-mounted kleig lights are required to indicate the way forward. (For the engineers' sake, we just hope the moose haven't all started wearing Ray Bans, or someone's going to make an impact.) The countdown is on until the Geneva show in March where the A5 will make its debut, with the first European deliveries expected later in the year, likely without pants. – Mike Spinelli More »

Spy Video: Audi A5 on the 'Ring

The upcoming Audi A5 coupe's been out on the N rburgring, rain or shine, in shakedown testing ahead of its launch, which some say will be at the Frankfurt show late in 2007. Spies videoed the latest in Audi's adventures in brand extension, which spies say appears to be larger than the BMW 3-series two-door, potentially filling a niche between the 3- and 6-Series coupes (anyone order that?). Word is a convertible version for ze vives who lunch is also in the works, though no word on the likelihood of a highly precise AS5 in our future. – Mike Spinelli More »

Spy Photos: Twin Audi A5's Spotted In Malibu

That's right kids, the Audi A5's been spotted here in the US. Two test mules were seen doing their thang along the winding canyon roads outside of Malibu this weekend, and the kids at Carster were lucky enough to be there and catch the engineering in action. And whereas the last pics revealed the new coupe's swage lines and cascading rear slope these ones come even closer to showing the coupe off in all of it's precision. – Ray Wert More »

Spy Photos: Audi A5, Getting Closer

We'll have to wait until next year to get a look at Audi's new A5 coupe without some dorky mask or other, but with every subsequent spy shot comes a bit more skin. This latest batch, from the Hans Lehmann squad, reveals the new coupe's swage lines and cascading rear slope. Expect Audi's sublime 4.2-liter V8 to show up under the hood, and plenty of room for a set of clubs in the trunk. And some golf stuff too. – Mike Spinelli More »

Spy Photos: 2008 Audi A5 in Paris

A quick-thinking digicam jockey caught a nearly uncovered prototype of the upcoming Audi A5 coupe on the streets of Paris. As Carscoop surmises, it'll be based on the next-generation A4 platform and get such corporate powerplants as the 2.0 TFSI, 2.8 V6 FSI & 3.6 FSI — with S5 and RS5 models getting the 4.2-liter V8 in various states of tune. No word yet on which show will host its unveiling, but Detroit and Geneva are the obvious guesses — though they may just pull a TT and launch it showless. – Mike Spinelli More »

Spy Photos: More on the 2008 Audi A5

Watch out, BMW 3-Series coupe. Audi's getting closer to launching the competition — the A5 coupe — as indicated by these new shots of what's likely an A5 prototype rounding Germany's N rburgring. Strategic cladding obscures most of the coupe's features, though the general shape is unmistakable. Look to the Nuvolari and Shooting Brake concepts for cues. – Mike Spinelli More »

Report: A5 Convertible to Replace A4 Cabrio

AutoWeek reports on the Audi A5 cabrio — the droptop version of the company's new, larger than small coup-ay. Word is the A5 convertible will replace the A4 cabrio and will be built in-haus, not by Karmann as is the case with the A4 softtop. But while the A5, which is set to debut later this year will be built in Ingolstadt, its cabrio sibling — which won't be out until late '08 according to insiders — will be built in Neckarsulm. Ingolstadt? Neckarsulm? Ah, let's call the whole thing off. More »

Is This the 2008 Audi A5?

The Audi-loving bloggers at The German Car Blog found what look to be the first shots (or reasonable fascimilies thereof) of the upcoming Audi A5 coupe, due in 2007, in Germany's Auto Motor und Sport no less. According to AMS, the A5 will come with a choice of V6 engines (no fours), the 3.2 and 3.6 FSI. More »

New Audi Coupe to get 420hp V8

The German Car Blog is reporting on Audi's upcoming A5 coupe, which Autocar says will get the company's 4.2-liter V8, producing 420hp, in top spec. That version, of course, will be the RS5 — which we'll likely be teased with until the late '00s — but lesser-grade A5s will get commensurate 2.0-liter fours and 3.2-liter sixes. Based on Audi's Nuvolari concept of 2003, the A5 will also be a full four-seater, not some 2+2 knee-cracker. Sorry, Road & Track, we just called dibs on the RS5 / Porsche Cayman S shootout article. More »

Audi A5 Set for 2008 Launch

Though unconfirmed by Audi, the new A5 is reportedly set for a 2008 release and — notwithstanding the spec image (pictured) — will share styling cues with the Nuvolari and Shooting Brake concepts and a platform with the next-generation A4 and Volkswagen's forthcoming upscale coupe (or four-door coupe as the case may be). According to South Africa's Wheels24, a soft-top A5 will replace the A4 cabrio. More »

Spy Photos: Audi A5 Test Mule

Sure, it looks like an Audi A6 that's foaming at the wheelwells, but it's actually a test mule underpinned by a new chassis Audi's developing to form the basis for the next-generation A4 and A6 — as well as a new Volkswagen four-door coupe. We'll see it first in (under?) Audi's new A5 coupe, which may appear as early as 2007, as a 2008 model. More »