A redesigned Audi Q5 is within the works and a prototype has been noticed. The most recent take a look at automobile is for the sporty SQ5 variant which ought to arrive roughly alongside the common Q5 someday subsequent 12 months. We should always see them arrive in showrooms as 2025 fashions.

We all know the prototype is for the SQ5 due to the four-pipe association of the exhaust suggestions up again, the enlarged air intakes up entrance, and the massive wheels housing massive brake rotors.

There’s additionally a glimpse of the dashboard in one of many pictures, which seems to be to disclose the now ubiquitous single panel combining a digital instrument cluster and infotainment display.

The brand new Q5 would be the third technology of the nameplate, and it ought to arrive with considerably acquainted styling and powertrain choices. The platform will probably be an evolution of mother or father firm Volkswagen Group’s MLB platform designed for premium front-wheel-drive automobiles and located within the present Q5.

Notably, the brand new Q5 would be the final technology with gasoline engines as Audi will solely launch electrical automobiles from 2026.

Within the case of the SQ5, count on the powertrain to be the identical 3.0-liter turbocharged V-6 discovered within the present SQ5, probably with a mild-hybrid part connected. Peak energy ought to eclipse the present mannequin’s 349 hp.

An 8-speed computerized and all-wheel drive must also kind a part of the bundle.

Audi can be engaged on a redesign for the A4. This time round we’d solely see the A4 Avant wagon which Audi is anticipated to rebadge an A5 as a part of a naming technique shift that may see gas-powered fashions use odd numbers of their names and EVs use even numbers. An electrical A4 E-Tron would then probably be launched to switch the present gas-powered A4 sedan. Keep tuned.