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    Image of DoctorNine's D9 Cat DoctorNine's D9 Cat
    07/16/09

    In reply to 2010 Audi A5 Sportback: Five Doors, Six Engines
    What can I say? Give me the 3.0 turbodiesel, with a nice 6-speed manual. That's got to be a rocking daily driver. In fact, I may have to look at grey marketing one of these... seriously.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    07/16/09

    In reply to 2010 Audi A5 Sportback: Five Doors, Six Engines
    It's about time someone made a new SAAB 9000.
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    07/16/09

    In reply to 2010 Audi A5 Sportback: Five Doors, Six Engines
    To be completely honest, I can't really think of a better one car than that. Da Silva's design is as classically correct as anything, Audi's engines are as competent as anything, German interiors are as luxurious and durable as anything, clever hatchbacks and four doors means as much space inside as anything, and with the right engine and suspension choices, it will run four rings around almost anything.



    Damn, it's pretty much all you ever need.



    And I still don't want one.
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    07/15/09

    In reply to 2010 Audi A5 Sportback: Five Doors, Six Engines
    I'd rather go slow in this than fast in a Panamera.
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    Image of If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
    07/15/09

    In reply to 2010 Audi A5 Sportback: Five Doors, Six Engines
    So, the United States wont get a svelte and efficient Audi liftback, but we will get a hideous, porky Accord Crosstour and an equally fat and stupid 5 Series GT?



    Bastards.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    07/15/09

    @FromaBuick6: Now, now, if we ask Audi real nice they might send it over eventually...as an Allroad version with fender flares, 8" of ground clearance, mandatory slushbox, and $60k+ price tag.



    On second thought, maybe they should keep it over there.
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    Image of Maymar Maymar
    07/16/09

    @FromaBuick6:Something tells me this won't be exceptionally svelte. Relatively, maybe, but it'll still be pushing 4000lbs.
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    Image of LandofMinos, cast thou evil bum dragger to thy scrapyard LandofMinos, cast thou evil bum dragger to thy scrapyard
    07/15/09

    In reply to 2010 Audi A5 Sportback: Five Doors, Six Engines
    That line of LED's under the headlamps make it Audis like a fleet of drag queens
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    07/15/09

    In reply to 2010 Audi A5 Sportback: Five Doors, Six Engines
    I thought coupé/sedan designation was the result of the amount of interior space, not doors.



    Given this, though, my land-yacht '73 Coupé deVille was rather obviously mis-named.



    However, if it's a term which has merely devolved to indicate a style, the automakers appear to want it to mean a roof's arc, I think, then it's being horribly mis-used here, as it is with every other four-conventional-passenger-doored... vehicle.
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    Image of Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. . Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .
    07/15/09

    In reply to 2010 Audi A5 Sportback: Five Doors, Six Engines
    Before you know it, they'll be calling SUV's coupes!



    Wait a second. . .
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    Image of wohho wohho
    07/15/09

    In reply to 2010 Audi A5 Sportback: Five Doors, Six Engines
    Note to BMW: Proof you're doing it wrong.
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    Image of r0ver r0ver
    07/15/09

    @wohho: Exactly,if you have to make any more hatchbacks,copy this not the Vel Satis.
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    07/15/09


    @r0ver: Well put.
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    07/15/09

    @A strolling player: Thanks,I was looking for a picture but you found it for me.Here have a heart click :)
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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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