SFV A4

Don't like hatchbacks, and this is no different. A car should be a car, a truck should be a truck, and an SUV should be an SUV. When you start mixing them up, the vehicle loses its purpose and people scratch their heads and say "what is it" before they say, "wow, that looks good." I don't think that's a positive.
But I must say out of all the newer hatches out there, this one is the least odd-looking.

Bottom line...

2-door Coupe = sporty. Trunk = prestige. Hatchback = utility, Toyota Starlet, and Mrs. Roper's Datsun B210.

Scout49

Just because Audi has the best looking coupe on the planet why do they feel obligated to bastardize it with small engines and weird variants like this?

What once looked to be a classic vehicle like the early mustangs is quickly becoming a rental car bonanza.

BlueSander

The pictures are alright but this Sportback without S-line looks like crap.

wgosling

Audi has always offered smaller engines in the A5 in Europe, and the do quite well with them. Audi of America knows that people in the U.S. have big egos that need to be fed with big engines, so they've planned their offerings around market data. Their releases here have been a progression, S5 first, then A5 3.2, now A5 2.0T. They can't keep selling V8's without balancing them out with more efficient offerings. They'd get buried in CAFE fines.

You're not going to see 10 times as many on the road just because they're offering the 2.0T now. Look how many Mustangs you see as rental cars vs. Audis. Don't think you need to be worried about that.

tubi

Plus the lease rate on the A5 will continue to suck for the foreseeable future. It just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to get an A5 when you can get a similar A4 for a song.

snow day

The sportback is now available on Audi's home website (http://www.audi.de) and in the Konfigurator (http://ak4-de.audi.de/entry). Looks like it's priced about 1500-1700 euros higher than the A5 coupe.

ACaudi

The sport back isn't coming to the US. http://www.fourtitude.com/news/publi...cle_5130.shtml

ACaudi

No, not coming to the US, see here: http://www.fourtitude.com/news/publi...cle_5130.shtml

Lucien4

Same price if you select the same engine. US will only get the A7... I could imagine too much competition to the A5/A6 in the US (whereas in Europe market is bigger for these type of cars).

snow day

I guess I misread the konfigurator the first time. Upon a closer look, the sportback is consistently less expensive than the coupe by 600-700 euros, depending on transmission. Seems like Audi is positioning the Coupe to be slightly above the Sportback, unless there are some other differences in base content that account for the price offset.

I think its too bad the Sportback isn't coming here. It's kind of like a sporty version of the A4 sedan, thus strengthening the separation between an A4 and A5; A4 is conventional, A5 is sport.