New Rendering of the 2008 Audi Q5

Wow that's one ugly vehicle at the front. It won't do much to change Audi's track record of extremely low customer retention in the US

I love the look of the Q5 and this Audi will sell in America.

Build it, bring it, buy it.

. . . and then switch to another luxury brand for a better ownership experience

What is Audi doing... They should call Chris Bangle and see how his head-scratching designs went over.

Looks very nice.

Nice looking Q5... it will do well in North America esp. da all important US marker.

This car can prob. finally bring Audi world wide sales reach the 1 million mark.

I think the Q5 rendering is quite sexy. I know many professionals that like the overall styling of the Q7 but are turned off by its size and heft. The Q5 will be a "just right" size for them. And it's also very SPORTY looking too. Hopefully, Audi will offer a clean diesel for this ute.

I agree with you, very beautiful looking design.

This is AutoBild's take on the Q5, not an actual design from Audi.

Anyone want to know about Audi ownership need look no further than this article, which shows [when you scroll down the page that almost two thirds of US Audi customers don't buy another one.

http://www.jdpower.com/global/press-releases/pressrelease.asp?StudyID=1241

I think jdpower needs to do a survey on how reliable their surveys are. They say how many people were surveyed but not how many people owned each brand.

Ex. Out of 100,000 people 10,000 owned toyotas and 63% would purchase again. But if only 1000 of those surveyed owned Audi it affects the outcome. You would actually need to ask the same number of Audi owners (10,000), not just a random sampling.

I was one of those two thirds. And so were many of my friends.

My 2001 S4 was the worst car Ive EVER owned. EVER EVER EVER EVER!!!!

Regardless of how beautiful and enticing Audis can be, I simply decided that enough was enough and lost a crap load of money getting out of it. I wont go back.

Audi's have big time reliability issues and anyone who says otherwise probably hasnt owned one.

iown1 - you obviously have enough statistical background to be dangerous, when you don't have a clue. A sample size of as little as 500 is often used in statistical polling. You don't need the same number for every brand. Get a statistics book or check in with your math teacher at junior high school.

No Mercbasher you are wrong. If they were ONLY asking about Audi a sample size of 500 would be fine, however they are asking about other brands as well.

See if you can follow this.

Someone asks you if you are satisfied with Toyota. You say yes. Great Toyota according to the poll has 100% satisfaction.

Now they ask me if I'm satisfied with my Audi, I say yes but person B says no. That means that according to the poll Audi has 50% satisfaction.

Now, what I would like you to do is extrapolate this ex. into the J.D. Powers poll and hopefully you'll understand what I'm trying to say. The more people surveyed the more the numbers will change one way or another. I'm not even saying Audi's numbers would improve, I just believe in the interest of fairness they should try to sample the same amount of owners.

That was #1. #2. If you were to believe this poll, that only %35 of Audi customers repurchase Audis, it would mean that annually Audi has approx. 500,000 new customers a year, every year. That would be a staggering number of new customers. And even in the U.S., were there presence is small, it would equate to approx. 50,000 customers a year. Again, that would be a helluva trick to pull off.

What I think you should do is THINK for yourself, before trusting blindly in what you read. Polls are good but common sense is priceless.

Funny,

here in Holland the Audi A6 came first in the Autoweek 2006 satisfaction servey.

I like it, but it is only a rendering and who knows how accurate.

Looks like they chopped a combo RS4 and S6 front end with the intakes from the ass end of the R8, then they took the A3 body and jacked it up about 6 inches and VOILA, Q5.

I don't like it, and I'm glad this isn't what it's going to look like.

Why do all you Audi bashers judge a car by an artist's impression, when nothing other than a MULE (A4 Avant body with Q5's chasis) has been spotted of this car?

To Chip: I'm on my 4th Audi since 2000. ALL OF THEM have been extremely reliable.
Even my father is on his 2nd one (99 A6 and 2005 A6).
Audis are now the most reliable European cars in the States. A lot of things have changed since 2001!

I'm on my fourth Audi since 2000, also. The worst problem I've experienced is the headlight washer cap flying off on the highway. Wow, I was devastated.

on our A8 we had a few years back the only problem was the rear self levelling being too high, so the back was a bit higher than the front.

You sound like a VW apologist...you'd fit right in with the VWVortex crowd...defend their cars to the death for no reason.

Everytime I look at an Audi that's a few years old, it looks beaten up...even looking at Pre-Owned Certified A4s in the dealer a few years old is embarrassing...worn out interior buttons, facia, door handles that are lose, etc....and what's the premium we're paying for over VW? Better coffee while we wait for the coilpacks to be changed?

Do you live in the Gutter where all the cars were bought and put together to make one car? Worn out interiors, facia, door handles have nothing to do with Audi themselves. It's the people who own them and the care they have for their vehicles. You think a car destroys itself? obviously not. Ask yourself that question. Does a car drive itself? No.

Uhh... what world do you live in?

What sets German cars apart from Japanese cars is that they're so DURABLE- durability and reliability are different. Their interiors hold up very well, as do the body panels, engines and features.

My A6, which was five years old when the lease went up in 2005, was in better shape then than my wife's RX330 (an '04) is now.

I can't believe you're actually arguing the issue of reliability and durability of German cars relative to Japanese. There are no German cars that come close to the reliability of Japanese cars. Anecdotal examples such as yours are just that.

The track record of Japanese cars and their reliability is second to none...and no amount of cheerleading is going to change that fact.

Agent63...

Cars are made to be used...if Pre-Owned Certified examples in the used-car showroom don't look particularly impressive, I can't wait to see private owners. And no...not everyone abuses their cars...some people take care of them but the elements can do the damage for them.