NEW Audi A5 review – the A4 is DEAD, but is this better?

33 thoughts on “NEW Audi A5 review – the A4 is DEAD, but is this better?”

1. Is the new A5 a step forwards or backwards for Audi?

   a) Step forwards – I love the modern screens and new look! 🚀
   b) Step backward – Bring back the physical air-con controls and the A4 name! 🔙

   Let us know your thoughts below! 👇

2. Way to much tech and shoddy interiors. Audi dying by degrees.

3. It’s a simple fact of if you want tech you sacrifice quality and I’d rather have quality

4. Full of plastic and screens we don’t need – the focus should be on the road and drive experience. The older models by far nicer and have more character. These blend into today’s car fad of everything looking the same – there’s no individuality anymore beyond the badge.

5. As an American consumer, I don't recall any Audi having cloth seats and manual seat adjustments in the past 35 to 40 years. Is this a European thing?

6. My mate’s brand new Volvo xc90 screen kept going to black screen, dead of winter and he had just turned all the heaters up to full when the screen disappeared and he had to drive for two and a half hours in a 27c temperature green house 😂😂😂😂 dials work so leave them alone, we want to drive cars not phones

7. And where did the A4 Allroad go?

8. Got the Audi S5 and absolutely love it..performance, interior and exterior. Great car

9. Genuinely insulting with the cloth materials and manual seats at this price point.

10. My 10 year old TT is much nicer than this on the inside. All modern VW/Audi are full of shiny creaky black plastic, yuk! The steering wheel controls alone would put me right off.

11. Nope have one 8 months sorry I bought it pile of garbage

12. Imagine cutting costs but still charging the same price 😂 this is why people are drawn to Chinese brands. You get full spec and good price.

13. You didn't talk about the moonroof that doesn't open on the new A5…….
    Cant believe they did that to the car.

14. My 2008 non turbo 2.0 Focus Zetec has the same power as the 150 TFSI….. when did new petrol engines become so gutless

15. I’ve been a happy driver of previous gen A5 and A4. I recently drove this new A5 and will hang onto my old car, thank you. In addition to everything this review points out, the tachometer situation is ridiculous – the wonderful old Virtual Cockpit has been destroyed – that black panel on the dash in front of the passenger is a source of dazzling and distracting reflections, and instead of an opening sunroof, you get one of those electro-chromic things. All round, this car is a big step back as a user experience.

16. This car is failing badly in the USA, where people like saloons and estates but don’t want a hatchback.

17. It's not premium anymore. Their marketing staff are geniuses, NOT. We knew what an A4 was …………

18. Looks like a Chinese car.

19. I don't particularly like the Gloss Black Trim, Physical Dials would be better than Touch Sensitive Buttons, Looks very nice though 😉

20. Audi sack the designers and start again….that passenger screen is an ugly elephant…the front grille…i drove the new Q5 and went ahead and bought the 2024 model instead. The 2023 A5 i drive looks way better. Audi have lost their way

21. Design language is awful, they have really lost their way. Cheap, tacky shapes, interior couldn't be more drab and generally, I see nothing appealing about this car.

22. cheap plastic

23. Overengineered car. Think about total cost of ownership… No difference compared to Chinese cars anymore.

24. And I guess it requires a subscription to open the doors?

25. Knowing what the A5 once was and seeing what it's turning in to is like seeing your favourite (highly respected) celebrity figure turn to drugs or seeing your favourite combat sports personality get CTE…
    It's made all the more tragic because it was totally preventable.
    Sad.

26. VW is ruining the Audi brand by cost cutting.

27. Why does an average car needs as much functions you can control as a jumbo jet? It also looks like you sit in a pair of jeans with all that denim.

28. “Meant the odd numbered cars would have an engine” And to cut costs the even numbered cars would get cycling pedals.

29. Another disappointing effort. The exterior is a master class in blandness and it’s unfortunate to see Audi down grading interior quality. I bought a new A4 B6 in 2003 because it was so desirable. The styling was classy and understated, and it had fantastic interior materials. I would take a 3 series over the A5 everyday of the week.

30. I have a 2018 Audi A5 Sportback (B9).
    I have no desire to replace it with this new A5.
    The design looks so drab and I hate the dashboard controls of the latest cars….

31. Cheap Chinese EVs now have better interior quality than German "premium" cars. What a joke Audi.

32. Exterior is smart, aside from the new badges. Interior is awful.

33. The front actually looks a lot like a Ford Focus.

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