Audi A5 Sportback 2.7 TDI Multitronic
DW • 66 Audi A5 Sportback 2.7 TDI multitronic The new Audi A5 Sportback is a response to the new wave of 4-door coupés that has been sweeping across the car scene over the last few seasons. The CLS from Mercedes-Benz came fi rst, and now the engineers from Ingolstadt have responded with the Audi A5 Sportback. At fi rst sight, it is a very good looking car, refl ecting its sporting nature with traces of the A5 coupé, but with its own specifi c temperament, with a slender, distinguished-looking rear. Welcome to the fi fth dimension! Concept Built on the A4 and A5 shared platform, it elegance. As witnessed by the number of But is Audi blurring the issue with the A5 has the long wheelbase (2.81 m) of the family heads that turn when the Sportback passes Sportback? Is it an A4 hatchback or an A5 car but, at only 1.39 metres high, it is still the by... with three more doors? Both: the fi rst gives same height as the coupé. Its front end also it its capacity and the second its athletic style comes from the coupé, with its frameless Mechanics and effi ciency. Actually, the A5 Sportback has doors, its wide track and short front and back It was the “small” V6 TDI engine beneath more of the saloon about it than the coupé. overhangs. Certainly, its profi le, character- the hood of the car that we tested. With a ized by the soft sloping roof, is not lacking in capacity of 2.7 litres (although there is also a DW • 67 3-litre V6 TDI), this diesel engine is available rpm!).
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