2016 Audi Q5 Pictures Reveal More Angular and Aggressive Styling With High-Tech Features

Audi is working on a new Q5 for 2016, and with a raft of new compact SUV rivals also on their way, it's going to have to be better than ever.

Audi is putting the finishing touches to the new Q7 – due to be unveiled at the end of this year – and many of the features introduced on that car will make their way on to the Q5. Chief among them is the new, more angular Q styling. The basic shape of the large, upright grille remains, but where the current car’s strakes run vertically, Audi will switch to a horizontal design.

The headlights are narrower and will be offered with the same MatrixBeam LED tech as on the A8 and new TT – they can remain on main beam, while masking out small areas of light so as not to blind drivers of oncoming cars.

We know Audi wants other models to get the simple Virtual Cockpit design found in the TT, which limits the number of buttons and places all information on a large
TFT screen in front of the driver. The new Q7 will benefit from this, and the tech will almost certainly make it into the Q5.

The new car is set to be based on the MLB architecture that will also underpin everything from the next-generation A4 right up to the Q7. With high-strength steels and aluminium structures, Audi hopes to reduce the kerbweight of the Q5 by around 100kg, which will obviously improve handling and fuel economy.




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knowitall1985 - 4/3/2014 2:48:53 PM

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Looks like the range rover......

cidflekken - 4/3/2014 4:23:04 PM

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I am absolutely not digging the direction that Audi's current products are going. I know I've said this before and I know the above is strictly a rendering. But the new TT isn't a rendering, and it's a disappointment. They've turned a once character-heavy car into a generic, soulless design.

GermanNut - 4/3/2014 4:55:48 PM

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I love the direction Audi's products are moving in. Many believed Audi's products were too bland looking and there was no enough differentiation. It appears that Audi is attacking those two issues head on with a more angular design and greater differentiation between models.

The 2016 Audi TT was going to be even more radical than the production version but Ferdinand Piech wanted the final version to be more like the original TT.

"This next TT successfully recalls the original, and it does so in a manner more directly than originally envisioned by Audi's design department. We hear that Volkswagen Group chairman Ferdinand Piëch—the Group’s final arbiter of style—insisted on keeping the rear end visually close to those of the previous two generations, but the overall look of the TT has nevertheless been starched. The sheetmetal is packed with more angles than ever, the grille now features a hexagonal shape, and the details again beg to be lingered over."

Piech likely knew the TT was not a huge volume seller like the A4 and Q5 so he could go more conservative with the design. For high-volume models like the A4 and Q5/Q7 expect Audi to hold nothing back.

cidflekken - 4/4/2014 12:29:09 AM

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Honestly, Nuttie, your affinity and obsession for Audi is outright unhealthy.

youngandaspiring7 - 4/5/2014 8:27:40 PM

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dude we get it... give it a rest.

youngandaspiring7 - 4/5/2014 8:29:34 PM

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can I also add that the car looks like a giant plastic hair drying with that cheap looking light gray plastic around the entire grill

TheSteve - 4/3/2014 7:03:04 PM

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If Audi goes in this direction, it would be a grand declaration of unoriginal MeToo-ism.