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Audi SQ5 TDI
June 18, 2012
It’s the first S-badged Audi to feature an oil-burner plumbed in behind its prodigious front grille, though Audi is confident it’s still every bit as worthy of the badge as its petrol-sipping brethren.
The 3.0 TDI twin-turbo V6 produces 230kW and 650Nm from 1450 to 2800rpm, which Audi claims is sufficient thrust to power the SQ5 in 100kph in a breathtaking 5.1 seconds.
Complicit in that urge is the Quattroall-wheel-drive system, and quick-shifting eight speed Tiptronic auto gearbox. Top speed has to be restrained by the familiar 250kph electronic limiter. Despite the diesel motor, Audi has worked to give the SQ5 a suitably enhanced engine note, via a tuned sound actuator in the exhaust.
The SQ5 is substantially more frugal that any S-model Audi that’s gone before though – Audiclaims a potential 7.2l/100km.
Familiar S-model cues adorn the body, such as flared air intakes, silver exterior mirrors, painted brake callipers, and quad exhausts. The car itself rides 30mm lower thanks to a sports suspension drop, atop 20-inch standard (or optional 21-inch) alloy wheels.
Interior upgrades come in the shape of S-badging on the dials, seats and sills, aluminium-look pedals and gearshift paddles, and optional carbon trip for the centre console. Power-adusted sports seats are standard, with a range of leather colours and finishes to choose from.
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