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Audi A5 Sportback 2.0 TDI CAR review

Even though Audi is conceivably hell bent on producing a different model for each and every one of its hundred year recital, you’d be forgiven for questioning the imposition of 5-door hatchback station on anything quite a pretty as the original A5 Coupe.

There is, however, method in this ostensible illogicalness because, with Saab’s 9-3 hatch now defunct and BMW’s 5-series GT occupying the division above, the A5 Sportback now finds itself alone in offering this format to the premium D split. So, if you want something posh of A4 size with a hatchback this -as Frank Zappa would have it in Stink Foot- unbiased has to be the disease for you.

Bit of both, really. Size-wise, the 4711mm Sportback is 8mm longer than an A4, with a wheelbase by a hair's breadth 2mm longer, at 2810mm. It’s also perceptibly wider, a front track of 1590mm gaining 26mm on the A4, and not absolutely as heavily sat on as it first looks, giving away just 5mm of put up headroom to the A4. Both rear legroom and 480 litres of loadspace are completely on a par with A4.

Source: CAR Magazine

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