Audi A5 coupe, convertible and soon Sportback

The Audi A5 family grows. After the cut and the new convertible, here is a new listing CALLED declination A5 Sportback five-door. It will be in fact the first car Audi Griffee give a look to cut four-door, although reality it will have a tailgate opening to the vertical. Will follow next year, the model also A7 style cut has four doors, but with a conventional trunk. Moreover, it wants to be a direct rival to the very seductive Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class.

A new environment

To confirm the seriousness of the manufacturer, it was just to give us two small images of this novelty of a future extremely close, along with Broadcast dropper data.

The new five-door cut shapes will inherit the Audi Sportback Concept unveiled at Detroit. Its external and internal dimensions should normally be slightly higher than those of the cup and of the convertible, but its cargo space will collars and certainly more versatile, given the presence of the tailgate. The manufacturer announced that its cargo spaces vary between 480 and 980 liters with the seats folded down completely, more than double that granted by the cup, or nearly double that offered by the A4 sedan space.

New engines 'known'

Of his arrival in European soil, the Audi A5 Sportback have three TDI engines delivering respectively 170, 190 and 240 horsepower. Only two petrol engines it will be designated at the beginning, is the four-cylinder 2.0-liter TFSI 211 hp or 3.2-liter V6 FSI 265 hp.

For America, one can easily imagine that the 3.2-liter V6 will still go, but what other engines will be offered, all that speculation can not be ...

Its official unveiling is planned for September, when holding the Motor Show in Frankfurt.