Reader Spy: Audi A5 Sportback caught under canvas
Audi A5 Sportback spy shots - Click above for gallery
Although Audi has said that it won't be bringing the new A5 Sportback to these shores, that didn't stop them from doing exactly that recently. Whether for testing purposes or marketing work, a Sportback was spotted here in Southern California recently and was luckily captured by frequent AB commenter Zamafir. Although the car was covered in camo, Zamafir says he also saw the vehicle in the flesh and offered his thoughts on the car:
Thanks, Zamafir!I had the chance to poke my head around the A5 sportback this morning, it's a wonderful car. Out of respect for the gentlemen handling it I didn't snap any shots of the car with the camouflage off, but it's very much what you would expect the A4 with an A5 rear superimposed upon it to look like. It's very very cogently penned. All the lines are very crisp, and I honestly prefer the profile from the side to the A5 and the BMW 5 series GT.
Inside the dash is the standard A5 affair with a different sort of trim than I'm used to seeing here in the US, though It's an ingolstadt car so who know if it'll make it over. Kind of a perforated metal look. Most importantly, the rear seats are quite a bit more roomy than I had expected. About on par with the A4. It's hard to tell from the spy shots but there is a reasonable amount of head room in the back thanks to the way the roof liner kind of arches up towards the rear inside. Visibility out the rear windows is a little obscured by their dramatic cut downwards and backwards to facilitate the sloping rear.
Gallery: Audi A5 Sportback spy pics
Photos copyright ©2009 Zamafir / Weblogs, Inc.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Taglane 3:34PM (6/23/2009)
jesus thats the suckiest camo ever.
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SeanGulden 3:40PM (6/23/2009)
Hah, it kooks almost like the dog van from Dumb & Dumber.
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Beastage 3:42PM (6/23/2009)
Lol what is next, picture of a closed garage where the car supposed to be inside?!
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Black Assassin 3:42PM (6/23/2009)
Who cares about it. Look at the FORD GT in the background! I would take that over any AUDI product including the R8 with the v-10.
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996700 4:09PM (6/23/2009)
I have never seen camo like that on the audi,and the FORD GT isn't parked he's just stopped to read his recall list hopeing his car will start again .....LOL
i.c. weiner 4:12PM (6/23/2009)
wtf is wrong with you. i like the ford gt and all, but the R8 just owns it.
Yaroukh 4:32PM (6/23/2009)
@Black Assassin: +1
DCragtop 9:05AM (6/24/2009)
I'm with you BA; not too interested in another Audi TT err, R8.
elpepe 3:50PM (6/23/2009)
If the guy was too stup.... I mean too respectfull to take pictures with the camo off, then there was zero point to this. These pics are absolutely useless....
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Mike P. 4:16PM (6/23/2009)
Speak for yourself.
Some of us are incredibly fascinated by the tiny bar of chrome detailing in the headlamps exposed by the equally tiny hole in the camouflage...
zamafir 4:45PM (6/23/2009)
I'm not sure why youre moaning, it looks exactly like the car fourtitude posted three months ago.
http://www.fourtitude.com/news/publish/Audi_News/article_4796.shtml
elpepe 5:25PM (6/23/2009)
"I'm not sure why youre moaning, it looks exactly like the car fourtitude posted three months ago."
Ah, in that case correction. If the pics already out, then there was LESS than zero point to this....
zamafir 6:11PM (6/23/2009)
lol, to each his own, I'm just passing along my impressions of the car inside and out.
toysbyus 9:16PM (6/23/2009)
Exactly.......that Ford GT just sits there begging for some photos and, instead, we get a tarped-up Audi?
Steve
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zamafir 4:14PM (6/23/2009)
The car's still at UCSD, it's been there for four hours, if anyone wants to grab shots, you're all more than able.
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Coolio 4:17PM (6/23/2009)
Those guys above are jerks. Thanks for sending this to AB.
Chris
Harrison 8:44PM (6/23/2009)
Which part of UCSD? The fact that there's a car like this there makes the rejection worse.
zamafir 4:15PM (6/23/2009)
The GT's owned by the production crew, it's one i've seen around LA a few times.
At this moment it's sitting there with the window down. Well, not there, perpendicular to that side of the building.
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Black Assassin 4:21PM (6/23/2009)
And just how does an R8-v10 own a FORD GT. The GT has better stats ( 0-->60, quarter mile, top speed, handling) and with the exception of the engine sound...I will give you that...the GT is just a better supercar. Plus the look has stood the test of time for more than 40 years.
GT for Me!
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tankd0g 4:32PM (6/23/2009)
Also holds the record for most time spent in the shop! Win all around!