Audi A5 Coupe Six Speed Manual Transmission With Turbo Engine
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- Audi A5 Coupe Six Speed Manual Transmission With Turbo Engine System
Audi A5 is a sleek two-door luxury car available as a coupe or convertible.
The styling of the Audi A5 Coupe is at once elegant and striking, clearly built with attention to detail. The cabin is understated and soothing, lavish and luxurious, with a choice of carbon fiber, stainless steel or wood trim.
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- The 2017 Audi A5 is a four-passenger luxury coupe that is also available as a cabriolet (convertible). A six-speed manual transmission is standard.
The A5 Cabriolet gives the driver the option of dropping the top. The Cabriolet’s cloth top is insulated and powers open or closed quickly. The convertible loses some of the clean lines of the coupe, but it’s a great car for top-down motoring.
The A5 uses Audi’s legendary 2.0-liter turbo now making 220 horsepower, and quattro all-wheel drive is standard. It uses an eight-speed automatic transmission, although you can get a six-speed manual in the coupe.
2016 Audi A5 Coupe and Cabriolet come standard with the S line exterior trim. 2016 A5 Premium Plus models are equipped with the excellent Bang & Olufsen sound system. A Red Acoustic convertible top is offered for the 2016 A5 Cabriolet and S5 Cabriolet. Now eight years old, the A5 was introduced as a 2008 model in the fall of 2007 and was refreshed for the 2013 model year.
A5 with eight-speed automatic is EPA-rated at 22/31 mpg City/Highway, or 25 mpg Combined and Premium gasoline is required; with the six-speed manual, it’s rated 32 mpg Highway.
The A5 offers many safety features including eight airbags and pop-up rollbars in the Cabriolet.
Model Lineup
The 2016 Audi A5 Coupe ($41,500) and A5 Cabriolet ($47,900) are powered by a 2.0-liter turbocharged engine and come with an eight-speed Tiptronic transmission and quattro all-wheel drive. A5 Coupe is also available with six-speed manual gearbox ($40,500). Leather, satellite radio, and Bluetooth come standard. Options include Bang & Olufsen audio, navigation, and iPhone integration.
The Audi S5 Coupe ($53,100) gets a powerful a 3.0-liter supercharged V6 rated at 333 horsepower and 325 pound-feet of torque. Audi RS5 features a glorious old-school 4.2-liter V8, good for 450 throaty horsepower.
Walkaround
Audi A5 styling is timeless, and it looks like a more expensive car. It isn’t daring, just sculpted with grace, and it definitely has presence.
The A5 Coupe has muscular haunches and classic lines. The Cabriolet looks good too. Too bad the deep, open-jawed grille, tall and oblong, seems too large and abstract, lacking definition that might separate it from a car bra at first glance. But the LED lighting makes it all good at night.
Interior
The A5 seats four, not five. Head, leg and shoulder room in the front is good, while the rear is too tight for adults; even with the coupe’s long doors, it’s hard to climb in and out of the rear. The cabin is well laid out and the controls are light. The seats are well padded and well bolstered.
The cabin design is clean and simple, and the materials high grade. The intricate instruments and aluminum trim make it feel high end. The two-tone leather and suede seats on our model used piano-black trim.
Rear visibility is poor a result of the thick C-pillars that look so good on the outside. Storage space is good, with the rear seats folded flat and open to the trunk with a good 16.3 cubic feet of space on its own. Cabriolets cut it to 11.3 cubic feet for the trunk, plus even less rear legroom.
The MMI controller makes it easy to tune things with the joystick. Google Earth and Street View shows some of the best images we’ve seen on a GPS.
The Cabriolet comes with a wind deflector that works well. It stores efficiently in the trunk in a bag or can be left in your garage when not needed.
Driving Impressions
The A5 will accelerate from zero to 60 in about 6.5 seconds, which might fall short of high performance, but it is peppy and fun, with a crisp throttle response and 258 pound-feet of torque. The 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine produces robust torque from 1500 to 4300 rpm, to propel the car from intersections and up hills. It’s as quiet and smooth as the four-cylinder engines from BMW, Mercedes and Cadillac, although it can sound a bit buzzy or gritty at high rpm.
Both the eight-speed automatic or a six-speed manual transmission suit the car’s character, as the automatic shifts quick enough to satisfy enthusiasts.
The ride and handling are tuned for comfort in the base model. Available Drive Select enables the driver to adjust settings for throttle, transmission, steering and suspension. We liked the Audi base settings. It’s comfortable on rough roads, and responsive on twisting roads. Even better, there’s a sports suspension option.
Quattro adds to the stability. With quattro, 60 percent of the power is directed to the rear wheels and 40 percent to the front under normal conditions. That 40/60 front/rear is a good balance. In very slippery conditions, the all-wheel drive can lock the center differential for traction.
Steering response is generally good. Active Dynamic Steering uses sensors to read the road and adjust the steering effort and quickness accordingly.
Audi S5 features a direct-injected, supercharged V6 with a two-stage intake manifold. It has large brakes and grippy 19-inch tires. An optional active rear differential overdrives the outside rear tire in corners, forcing the front end to turn in more quickly. It also communicates with the vehicle’s Drive Select system and stability control to help maintain control in emergency maneuvers. The S5 is heavy, however, so it doesn’t handle like a sports car.
Summary, Prices, Specs
Audi A5 is less expensive than comparable models from BMW and Mercedes-Benz. Still handsome, these cars are becoming dated and new versions are expected to be introduced soon.
Driving impressions by Marty Padgett, editorial director, The Car Connection. Sam Moses contributed to this report.
Redesigned, the 2018 Audi A5 and S5 models get new platforms, engines, styling, technology, and safety features. And there is a new model, a sexy Sportback that’s been available in Europe for some time. Actually, make that two models, because the Sportback comes as a high-performance S5 as well.
That makes three body styles available: two-door Coupe, four-door Sportback hatch, and sporty two-door Cabriolet convertible. Each comes in A5 and S5 tune.
The A5 improves on all levels, especially power, handling, and looks. It’s the best A5 ever, as any redesigned model should be. It presents a comfortable ride, balanced handling, and a strong engine having a subdued note.
The A5 is built on platforms and running gear of the A4 sedan and Q5 crossover. Every A5 has the bombproof and totally refined Quattro all-wheel drive, with the coupe getting Quattro Ultra that improves fuel mileage by cutting drive to the rear wheels.
The A5 uses a 2.0-liter four-cylinder turbo making 252 horsepower teamed with a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission, or a six-speed manual in coupes. It hits zero to sixty in 5.7 seconds and gets an EPA Combined 27 miles per gallon. Every A5 has a Drive Select system with modes to relax the dynamics or sharpen the edge.
The S5 with its 3.0-liter turbocharged V6 accelerates from zero to 60 in 4.4 seconds, and gets 24 miles per gallon Combined. It uses an eight-speed twin-clutch transmission.
The redesigned platform has moved the engine farther back in the chassis to improve the balance, and lost some weight to improve the handling. It’s sportier than before, although the true sports sedan and hatch is the S5. Or take the big leap to the track-ready RS 5.
For 2018 Audi A5 adds safety technology, with forward collision warnings, automatic emergency braking, rear cross-traffic alerts, and active lane control.
Model Lineup
Audi A5 comes as a coupe, convertible and the new Sportback. Standard equipment includes leather seats, automatic climate control, MMI infotainment system, and ambient interior lighting. Options include navigation, a Bang & Olufsen sound system, Audi’s high-tech virtual cockpit digital instrument cluster, adaptive dampers, and 4G LTE data services with WiFi hotspot.
The S5 comes in the same models, in Premium Plus and Prestige trim. Premium Plus includes S sport seats with a diamond-quilted pattern, front seat massagers, automatic climate control, Bluetooth connectivity, 18-inch wheels with summer 245/40 summer tires, LED headlights, leather seating with Alcantara inserts on the doors, a 7.0-inch driver information screen, and 7.0-inch infotainment screen.
Eight airbags are standard, along with a rearview camera and parking sensors. Also standard is Audi’s active safety suite called Pre sense city, which can slow or stop the car if a head-on crash is imminent.
Exterior
The A5 coupe styling is elegant, understated and sleek, with muscular haunches. It sets the styling benchmark for coupes. The 2018 redesign doesn’t change its looks much at all, maybe just sharpens the edges.
The devastating lines of the new Sportback flow like those of the gorgeous A7. Its wheelbase is a bit longer than the coupe or convertible. The roof is low like the coupe’s, but stretched into a hatchback, sleeker than the BMW 3 Series GT. The Sportback skips the chrome frame around the windows, a plus in our book.
The S5 fastback sedan has been restyled and sharpened from nose to tail, on the same measurements. The nose is lower and the headlamps higher, creating a look like a furrowed brow. The hood gets more demonstrative creases. The character line along the side of the car gets some starch. In direct light, it casts a shadow that makes the body look longer.
Interior
The classy A5 cabin has horizontal lines and uses low-gloss black plastics with the wood or metal trim. Paddle-shifters for the transmission are standard, but they’re small and disappointingly made of plastic. One competitor for the S5 Sportback might be the new Alfa Romeo Stelvio, which has big beautiful metal paddles.
The tech features are added in a cohesive manner, not confusing or futuristic. The rotary dial for MMI interface with center screen is something Audi owners are used to, blessed buttons instead of a touchscreen. The MMI is fairly easy to use, but connecting an iPhone is more difficult without a touchscreen.
There’s an optional 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster Audi calls a virtual cockpit. It gives the cabin a look of state of the art.
In the S5 coupe, one of our tall testers couldn’t get his head low enough for comfortable visibility, given the tall driver’s seat and low roof; rearward visibility was worse, with the thick C-pillars creating big blind spots. Blind-spot monitors are optional but would be useful in all models.
We haven’t had a chance for seat time in the A5 sedan, but in the coupe at least, the rear passengers will be squeezed with only 32.7 inches of legroom.
Audi A5 Coupe Six Speed Manual Transmission With Turbo Engine Specs
The coupe has an adequate 11.6 cubic feet of cargo space in the trunk, less in the convertible of course because of mechanism: 9.3 cubic feet with the roof down. If it’s cargo space you need, the Sportback brings you 17 cubic feet.
Audi A5 Coupe Six Speed Manual Transmission With Turbo Engine For Sale
Driving Impressions
Used toyota tacoma access cab. The turbocharged 2.0-liter engine is new, making 252 horsepower which is 30 more than before. It’s mated to a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic manual transmission that’s the best in the business, with shifts that are smooth and quick. With the coupe, a six-speed manual is available.
The engine has sharp throttle response, being absent of turbo lag or drama, and accelerates from zero to sixty in a satisfying 5.7 seconds.
The A5’s Drive Select offers Comfort, Normal, Dynamic, and Individual (custom) modes for the for the steering, suspension, transmission, and throttle. In the appropriate mode, the steering is sharp and direct, and the handling is balanced. The ride is comfortable and composed. It’s sporty and fun to drive, although its mission is meant to be more sedate than that; the adrenaline is saved for the S5, which adds torque vectoring to help the car rotate in turns.
The turbocharged 3.0-liter V6 in the S5 makes a whumping 354 horsepower and 369 pound-feet of torque, to drive the car to 60 mph in 4.4 seconds. It’s a twin-scroll turbo designed to reduce lag and deliver a broad torque band. The torque comes on strong at 1350 stays there to 4500 rpm. It’s a fantastic passing machine on two-lanes.
Audi A5 Coupe Six Speed Manual Transmission With Turbo Engine Reviews
The eight-speed automatic is quick and tight, and the Quattro all-wheel drive splits the torque 60/40 rear/front. New in 2018 is an available rear differential that moves the torque from side to side, as needed in cornering.
Some of the weight loss in the 2018 comes from the use of aluminum components in the five-link rear suspension.
A sport package lowers the car by nearly one inch. It includes adjustable dampers, the new rear differential, and red brake calibers. It can be set from Comfort to Dynamic, with an Auto mode making it easy for the driver. Even in Dynamic mode, the S5 doesn’t feel harsh or high-strung.
Final Word
The 2018 A5 succeeds as redesigns are supposed to, with better looks, more power, and sharper handling. The new Sportback model is a very welcome addition; it brings the line alive. The S5, with its powerful twin-scroll V6 turbo, succeeds as a grand touring machine all the way.
Audi A5 Coupe Six Speed Manual Transmission With Turbo Engine System
Sam Moses contributed to this report.