2024 Audi SQ5 spied | CarExpert

Audi’s subsequent mid-sized SUV rival to the Mercedes-Benz GLC and BMW X3 is taking form.

The hotter SQ5 SUV has been snapped testing on the Nurburgring, with what appear like manufacturing headlights and tail lights hiding beneath that black-and-white camouflage.

Our spy photographers additionally suppose there are production-ready grilles and bumpers hiding someplace in there, though they’re difficult to make out.

With 4 chunky exhaust pipes, large brakes, and larger wheels than the common Q5 prototypes we’ve beforehand seen, there’s no query that is an SQ5.

What’s going to energy the automotive isn’t clear. We’re assured it’ll function some kind of mild-hybrid help, like the present SQ5’s 3.0-litre turbo-diesel V6.

Whether or not that engine or the three.0-litre turbo-petrol V6 supplied overseas will keep it up hasn’t been confirmed.

Earlier spy images displaying the automotive side-by-side with the present mannequin present it’s clearly decrease and wider than the present mannequin, and we’re anticipating an extended wheelbase to liberate extra inside house.

Inside, anticipate a cabin that borrows lots from the most recent Volkswagen Group merchandise. Meaning numerous large screens, and only a few buttons.

The steering wheel with its touch-sensitive buttons and the nubby gear selector look nearly an identical to those within the all-electric This fall e-tron.

It’s understood the next-generation Audi Q5 will use an up to date model of the present MLB Evo platform, just like the next-generation Audi A4 which was beforehand spied.

The subsequent Audi Q5 may be the final to function petrol and diesel engines, with the corporate planning to stop gross sales of automobiles with inner combustion engines outdoors of China by 2033.

The present-generation Q5 has been on sale domestically since 2017 and it acquired a refresh in 2021.

The Sportback coupe SUV model of the Q5 and SQ5 joined the native vary in August 2021.

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