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    2010 Audi A5 Sportback: A Look Inside The Hatch

    Audi A5 Sportback: Practical, Sporty And Sad

    Audi Sportback Concept Previews 2009 Audi A5 Sportback
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Audi A5 Sportback: A Look Inside The Hatch
    Again... this.




    Shit's still cool.

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    Image of dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity
    06/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Audi A5 Sportback: A Look Inside The Hatch
    They are using calipers for their measurements? Where is the micrometer? German engineering quality must be slipping...
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    Image of DonLuc DonLuc
    06/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Audi A5 Sportback: A Look Inside The Hatch
    I almost didn't come here, thinking that this was an advertisement for Audi.


    Now that I'm here, though, I'm glad I came.


    By the looks of it, there is only slightly more cargo space advantage over a sedan. I don't understand these things at all. The same functionality of a sedan without the good looks. Weren't they supposed to add something nice instead of take it all away?

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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    06/26/09

    @DonLuc: er, A5 comes only as a coupe at the moment, and speaking as an Audi owner, I can tell you that although the trunks are quite commodious, the openings are small enough to reduce overall utility.
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    Image of drewdrawshashtags drewdrawshashtags
    06/26/09

    @Ben Wojdyla: Absolutely. I don't see this as looking worse (hatchhater!), and the utility of a hatch is huge over the A5's standard trunk opening. Audi probably would've made the A5 like this outright if Americans didn't have such a hatch stigma.
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    Image of DonLuc DonLuc
    06/26/09

    @Drew draws in French, in Russian:


    Whoa whoa whoa...I'm not a hatch hater--I drive an Explorer after all--it has a HUGE hatch--haha. It's just that this particular model seems to open up very long, but the space inside is still rather short vertically like a sedan.


    And I love the Avants--probably the only wagon I'd own.

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    Image of drewdrawshashtags drewdrawshashtags
    06/26/09

    @DonLuc: My point is, if there's all that space behind the back seats for a trunk, but the opening is so small you can't access it, why not a hatch? With true coupé style and practicality to boot, what's not to love?


    Don't think I don't love the idea of a shooting brake too, but that's going to have a seriously limited audience, n'est ce pas?

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/26/09

    @Ben Wojdyla: It's the Cyclone effect. Murilee told me after I submitted a couple photos of a '68 Fairlane 500 fastback that while he owned his Fairlane and Cyclone, he kept a broomstick with a hook on the end so he could fish things out of the huge trunk through the tiny opening.
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    Image of TheGuinnessTooth TheGuinnessTooth
    06/26/09

    @DonLuc: Without the good looks of a sedan? Since when have Audi sedans been their good looking models?
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    06/28/09

    @TheGuinnessTooth:


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    Image of It's a Camaro It's a Camaro
    06/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Audi A5 Sportback: A Look Inside The Hatch
    What I don't get is why this is an A5? Isn't that supposed to be the A4's coupe sibling? Shouldn't this be the A4 Sportback?
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/26/09

    @It's a Camaro: Because it's supposed to be a "coupe"? (?)
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    06/27/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Even though a coupe is only supposed to have two doors...


    Damn Germans marketing people, always messing up my s**t.

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    Image of yisoo yisoo
    06/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Audi A5 Sportback: A Look Inside The Hatch
    lego rear bumper ftw
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    06/26/09

    @yisoo: Really expensive, high precision Witte fixturing rear bumper. It's like Lego for wealthy grown-ups.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/26/09

    @smalleyxb122: All I can picture is the drive cage of a Chenming server tower.


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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Audi A5 Sportback: A Look Inside The Hatch
    Meet the new BMW 5-Series hatch, now with 75% less fugly.
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    Image of something_unique_and_descriptive something_unique_and_descriptive
    06/17/09

    In reply to Audi A5 Sportback: Practical, Sporty And Sad
    Wait, isn't the A5 essentially the coupe version of the A4? So shouldn't this be the A4 Sportback seeing as how it's got four doors and all?
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    06/17/09

    In reply to Audi A5 Sportback: Practical, Sporty And Sad
    First they denied us the RS6 Avant, then they quit the ALMS (which might lead to Acura pulling out after this year), and now they deny us the A5 Sportback.


    Why do you hate America, Audi?

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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    06/17/09

    In reply to Audi A5 Sportback: Practical, Sporty And Sad
    I thought they were axing the 3.2 V6.
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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    06/17/09

    In reply to Audi A5 Sportback: Practical, Sporty And Sad
    Audi used to build another coupe- this one based on the 100 platform:


    We didn't get that one in the U.S. either.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    06/17/09

    @Graverobber: Definitely not crack pipe!
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    Image of Miscellanea Miscellanea
    06/17/09

    In reply to Audi A5 Sportback: Practical, Sporty And Sad
    It seems like Audi's getting a little model bloat these days. I always like that they kept it simple. They're playing Keeping up with the Jones's with the A3,4,5,6,7,8, and Q5,7. Now, they're making a variant 4 door coupe model for the A5. I thought that's what the A6 was for? Anyway, I hope Audi doesn't go the way of BMW by making every possible niche market vehicle.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    06/17/09

    In reply to Audi A5 Sportback: Practical, Sporty And Sad
    One asscheek all by itself does not a sexy picture make. Up close like this, it's more a clinical study of an individual feature, e.g. we'll suck a little fat out of here and reinject it under the fenders over there.


    Show me the whole car.

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    Image of Tossed Accord taco salad over Malibu face Tossed Accord taco salad over Malibu face
    06/17/09

    @Elhigh:


    Its got a third nipple..


    Plenty of blackheads, its jacked up a good 2' BUT...


    Wait for it...


    IT RUNS ON STREET TIRES.


    Worst part..
    They give us the Q7 (Cayenne), the Q5 (always the larger vehicle.. cause the smaller one makes too much sense.) Inaddition to the Tiguan (prob a Q3).


    What a bunch of horse shit.

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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    06/17/09

    @suidroccA suidellik suibilaM: Third nipples are said to be symbols of great prowess. Go Audi.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    06/17/09

    @Elhigh: At last! After plowing through all the gloom and moping in the preceding posts, we now have bitter funny!

    Maybe they'll name it the Audi Asscheek.
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    Image of Gearhead_42 - Nibbles ate my garage! Gearhead_42 - Nibbles ate my garage!
    06/17/09

    In reply to Audi A5 Sportback: Practical, Sporty And Sad
    Audi just built a Saab 900. Cool!
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    06/17/09

    @Gearhead_42: Close. A 9-3 (NG900)? Transverse motor changes everything.
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    Image of .357 .357
    06/17/09

    In reply to Audi A5 Sportback: Practical, Sporty And Sad
    Eh, it's sadder that they don't sell us the RS6 Avant.
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    Image of Ray Wert Ray Wert
    06/17/09

    @Ambiguously Unfunny Serial Killer: Ain't that the truth?
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    Image of Miscellanea Miscellanea
    06/17/09

    @Ambiguously Unfunny Serial Killer: I third that motion.
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    06/17/09

    @Ambiguously Unfunny Serial Killer: It's saddest that they won't sell the R15 TDI anywhere.


    Actually, no, not really, that was just a random dream of mine.


    But I thought maybe they should offer more diesels in the USA, and as the price of oil climbs and climbs, diesel might become more attractive (except in California, that is).


    And wagons, just for Jalops.

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    Image of CorporateFelon CorporateFelon
    06/17/09

    @Ambiguously Unfunny Serial Killer: Even sadder, I was reading that they might not even sell the new S4 Avant in North America when the S4 gets released in the fall.


    That makes me a sad panda.

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    Image of ThreeLitre ThreeLitre
    06/17/09

    @Miscellanea, 1-800-CASH-4-JALOPNIK-GOLD: I don't. Because I might actually be able to, you know, afford this version.
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    06/17/09

    @CorporateFelon: Is that a Chrysler Panda?
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    Mobius was starred Mobius was unstarred
    Image of Miscellanea Miscellanea
    06/17/09

    @ThreeLitre: Hopes and dreams my friend. Just like what it'll take to get the A5 Sportback here in the US. Kinda ironic isn't?
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    01/11/09

    In reply to Audi Sportback Concept Previews 2009 Audi A5 Sportback
    Wow... Just.. WOW!


    If they put a 6 speed manual in it, I would have to consider it...

    Nice finish on this. VAG has officially surpassed Mercedes now.

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