Belgian tuning company Caractere adds the Audi Q5 to their list of modified vehicles. The new kit is more subtle and less aggressive than the Abt Sportsline Q5, which is good for people who want to change the appearance of their Q5 without being too flashy about it.
autobild.de has some artist sketches of the next round of SUVs from the European luxury manufacturers. They're just guesses with liberal use of retouching, but they're worth a look for anyone considering them.
“Hey did I already write about this?” I literally said that out loud to myself when this landed in my inbox yesterday. Nope, I was thinking of Audi’s Q7, this is Audi’s brand new, smaller Q3. Strong family resemblance though, huh? And you don’t have to have a degree in product planning to see who the Q3 is aimed at: would-be buyers of BMW’s smaller X3 sport-ute. The question becomes, does Audi have what it takes to beat BMW?
Audi just chose a production site for the upcoming Q3 crossover - the SEAT facility in Martorell, Spain. Manufacturing should being in 2011 with a production capability of 80,000 units/year. Audi threw around €300 million into this, and chose the site after careful consideration of other facilities internationally.
Audi is pressing forward and releasing it’s new, smaller Q5 SUV to the public. Not the road behemoth like the Q7, the Q5 is somewhat smaller, and aimed squarely at a more urban buyer (i.e. yuppies).
Let’s take a look under the hood, shall we?
Audi made their first appearance at the Wörthersee Tour in Austria this year, with quite a display. The highlight of the Audi display however was a heavily modified version of the 2009 Q5, called (quite descriptively) the Audi Q5 custom concept. For this new concept, Audi engineers lowered the Q5’s suspension by 2.36 inches, widened the track by 3.54 inches, added big 21-inch custom wheels, and gave it a special Daytona Gray paint finish.
As part of promoting their Audi Q5 SUV in the US, the commercial featured below seems to continue the company's way of aggressively advertising its products by comparison.
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