Audi S5: UK video review

Here's a very nice video review of the Audi S5 from UK. Enjoy!

Think back – if you can – to the early 1980s and the introduction of the Audi quattro coupé. It turned world rallying on its head almost overnight and proved that all-wheel traction was actually useful for something other than ploughing fields. Oh yes, and it made a fantastic roaring, burbling sound as it passed. If you’re too young to remember standing in the Welsh forests and hearing the unmistakeable sound of a Group B quattro approaching at full chat, you have my sympathy.

Initial impressions of the S5, I have to say, were very good. The A5/S5 is the first car to be built on Audi’s new Modular Longitudinal Platform (MLP) that’ll also see service in the new A4. Moving the front axle forward has given the car the longest wheelbase of any mid-size Audi to date and there’s an impressive amount of interior room as a result. Head-on, the car looks like a big TT, although it would be a mistake to think of the S5 as simply a bigger version of the car we tested in late 2006. It’s an attractive car from every angle, with leather seats (complete with the “S5” logo embroidered into the front seats) as standard in the S variant.

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Source: UK Car News, picture by Audi

Audi S5: UK video review

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