2025 Audi S5 is not better than its predecessor: Review

The last generation Audi A4 and A5 have been disregard. They have never won the comparison tests or the hearts and minds of enthusiasts in general, but they represented all that Audi did well – a great design, great building quality, an excellent work environment, and strong driving dynamics. The new S5 is not necessarily a bad car, but it is a frustrating and beloved thing.

Audi has completely killed the A4 board, with plans to use equal numbers for EVS and the individual gas car numbers. The company has since then Abandoning this ideaBut not before the launch of the new A5 and S5 – an alternative to both S4 Sedan and the old S5 Sportback.

A5/S5 Ride on the New Plant Platform Creptus (PPC), which is really just a development of the longitudinal height engine, the AUDI front transmission platform for years until now. For the S5, the engine is also familiar, which is 3.0 liters V-6 made 362 hp and 406 lb-ft torque. This five -door opening is also the only body style available in the United States, where S5 Coupe and Convertible died, and a Avant vehicle is not for our beaches.

The deportation components are not bad news here, because the basics of the previous generation “B9” S4/S5 were sound. This is a beautiful driving car. Even without the moderate hybrid system that it gets in Europe, this V-6 has an excellent strangulation response and the delivery of smooth energy via the ReV. It also seems fun, if it is somewhat silent.

Audi got rid of eight automatic speeds here as well, and instead, he went to a seven -speed dual clutch. It looks curious on his face, but this step comes because the S5 also avoids the traditional SUV system in the lighter and most efficient Quattro Ultra setting. This means, in theory, that the S5 should act more like a front -wheel drive vehicle, but in practice, you will not know anything that has a meaning change. It still sends the energy back often, and the sporty difference across the back helps the car to rotate.

I will not say that the S5 is as fun as it is very qualified, but this is the case with the previous generation as well. The guidance is decent, but the car is not flexible terrible, and indeed, Audi quotes 4,288 pounds. This seems to be a lot of luxury sporting non -Hijri sport of this size. BMW 3 category is not lightweight either, but even the current M340i xdrive weighs slightly more than 4000 pounds.

Pros: ARMBACK Operation, Great Seats, Soft Engine

This weight is manifested in the S5 does not feel graceful. It is noticeable in riding quality as well. Regardless of the situation in which adaptive residue-which is available only as an option is available on the medium premium plus and normative premium on the highest standing-the passenger does not stabilize. The car only fills, some of which are definitely returning to the optional wheels 20 inches.

So, to lead, the S5 is good, if not great, in some respects. But I will not go to the point that it is much better than its predecessor, or a correction on the excellent BMW M340i or the left field Cadillac CT5-V. This is not the big problem, though.

Odees used to feel expensive. You paid a bonus, but you did not feel short of what you got. Now, though, the interior looks nice enough at the beginning, and the seats are beautiful, but then I noticed that there is no single piece of metal pieces anywhere. The dashboard is covered in Alcantara, the central console is the least favorite material for everyone, black piano, and even plastic door handles.

Then there are strange touch panels – one on the mirrors of the controls on the door, external lighting, lock, and seat memory. It works well, but it looks and feels cheap. He has a touch wheel touch platform, also, which responds to both strikes and clicks, and he will accidentally rebel them, and change some of the settings you do not want.

Cockpit Digital Digital Virtual Virtual Cockpit is used to set the standard for these types of screens, with excellent graphics and an ultra -understandable interface. But now, the 14.5 -inch -inch menu structure is strange and confusing, and strange graphics, with a speed meter (or a rotating speed scale in the dynamic mode) that is width vertically for some reason.

Audi also has one of those ridiculous Tesla screens that shows you the location of cars around you, and does not actually work well. Cars and corridors suddenly appear and disappear without warning.

Negatives: cheap interior, confusing entertainment, and weight

The information and entertainment system now depends on Android, and although it is very fast-the days of information and entertainment that cars feel is significantly slower than your iPhone-it is not easy to use like the old Audi system. There are a lot of lists and things that must be wandered.

The complaint of comfortable dodgers is a difficult one in reviewing cars because, in the end, buyers are accustomed to things. I just spend a week with a car before I return to it. However, although I am sure I will get used to this S5 too, it also bothered me in several ways that the previous Audi models did not do. Entry to Audi felt like a breath of fresh air. Hell, S3, which traveled two months ago I felt this way. This car angered me, and it did not have enough recovery characteristics to compensate for it. Especially in $ 73345, this version is one copy.

In Audi’s defense, the company knows it needs that Raed in quality. The new Q3 looks as it is Move in the right directionAlso, we had good things to say about electricity Q6 E-Tron.

Basically, the new Audi S5 is not a defective car; It is just a side step, if not a step back, from its predecessor. Currently, you were looking at the S4 and S5 models used gently on this.

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