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We hated them, we condemned them, we saw the downfall of Kombi-Nation-Deutschland approach. The SUV, especially in its slightly softer and more compact form has made an impressive career and duped in the sales figures already all other vehicle classes.
Audi SQ5 - first impression
What does he want to be?
He wants to be the sporty spearhead of the SUV movement. Where the new SQ5 drives should be at the front. So far, the Q5 series has already successfully conquered the compact SUV market, it is now time for Audi to make a sporty statement and introduce the first “sports SUV”. While SUVs were previously responsible for the sprint between the refrigerated counter and the diaper box, the SQ5 wants to establish a new level of seriousness.
An Audi SQ5 takes on the balancing act of lateral dynamics, load space variability and the trendy SUV look. Anyone who has already driven SUVs knows the great rifts that open up if you want to combine both: both to delight the trendy SUV world with a new top model and to be taken seriously in terms of transverse and longitudinal dynamics.
What can he do?
He hums. Not like an SUV usually hums. No. He's really buzzing. The new V6 bi-turbo diesel with 313 HP and 2 speakers is responsible for this. It seems grotesque what people did in Ingolstadt with the once simple exhaust system of an automobile. Integrated into the last part of the system, just before the mufflers, a loudspeaker has been placed and the sound waves that come out of the tailpipes at the end of the expansion process and the noise-dampening effect of 2 turbochargers is finely modeled by modern acoustic technology. No diesel sounds like that.
But only purists are bothered by this. For the occupants of the SQ5 and the passers-by around the vehicle, the brittle 3 liter diesel fills the environment with a fine baritone of pleasant-sounding, torque-promising V8 sound waves. Hot. Thanks to a 30mm lowering, the major disadvantage of SUVs, the high seating position, is put into perspective a little and you find yourself in good hands between leather chairs and Alcantara sky.
Once again, the processing fanatics at Audi are not naked in the interior. It sits, it fits and clicks so wonderfully - you would love to stick your own doorbell on the doors of the SQ5 and from now on live in this world of leather, Alcantara and piano lacquer.
313PS are a word - but what is more impressive is the sheer force with which the 650Nm of the robust diesel attack the 8-stage automatic and the heads of the occupants suddenly look for a hold on the headrests. No SUV has kicked me like this before. The all-wheel drive with its 40/60 distribution in favor of the rear axle and the 4 tires in dimension 255 ensure that the vehicle and asphalt are directly interlinked and that the torque is converted into delightful acceleration values without loss. The SQ0 shakes the important regulars' sprint from 100 to 5 km / h out of its SUV garb in 5.1 seconds. Far more important, however, is the ever-present feeling of omnipotent torque pleasure in everyday life. You don't accelerate in the SQ5 - you zoom through the torque plateau.
Thanks to the 8-speed automatic, the driver always has a suitable gear ratio ready to curve with the torque maneuver on the country roads. Thanks to the tight coordination and the lowering of the center of gravity by 3 centimeters, the chassis works surprisingly direct and free from nasty understeer attacks. Should the times be over when Audis chewed off their front tires by annoying understeer, like smokers on withdrawal from their own fingernails?
What can not he do?
Deny your origins. The basis for the SQ5 is an SUV. No lowering and no additional turbocharger help. Anyone looking for a sporty station wagon should choose a sporty station wagon. The SQ5 shows what is possible, but does not provide an answer to the question: Why? Why do I have to turn an SUV into a sports car? Why do I lower a four-wheel drive vehicle if it was previously designed in order to climb over fields and forest paths with plenty of ground clearance?
What is the new Audi SQ5?
On the one hand, the SQ5 is the answer to a question that nobody asked. On the other hand, it is above all a proof of the art that cannot be found on every corner in the automotive industry today. It is the art of making the seemingly impossible - possible. At the end of a short test drive, however, the first thought comes back to mind: Wow. What a car, what a fascinating engine. But why the vulture wants someone an SUV with the one at the traffic lights Porsche driver?
Without question - the Ingolstadt-based Q5 series is the SUV series with the greatest success and a coherent basic concept. And every series needs a top model, whether that makes sense or is a little crazy - in the end, no one cares. And yet buyers of a Q5 with a reasonable engine are happy about the capabilities of the big 313 hp SUV miracle. This helps to overcome the question of “why”.
Why you had to convert an SUV to a sporty niche model? A SQ5 will probably never leave the path of the asphalt bands. Totally sense therefore frees the mixture of ex-SUV and power diesel. An A5 Sportback with this engine would have been even more impressive.
But cool? Horny is the SQ5 always.
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