A redesigned Audi Q5 is within the works and a prototype has been noticed. The most recent take a look at car is for the sporty SQ5 variant that ought to arrive alongside the common Q5 someday subsequent yr. Each ought to be 2025 fashions.

We all know the prototype is for the SQ5 due to the four-pipe association of the exhaust ideas in again, the enlarged air intakes up entrance, and the massive wheels housing massive brake rotors. The common Q5 solely has a pair of exhaust tips about the left aspect of the rear fasica. Prototypes for each variations are featured within the video beneath.

We get a glimpse of the dashboard in one of many photographs, and it seems to disclose the now ubiquitous single panel combining a digital instrument cluster and an infotainment display screen.

The brand new Q5 would be the third era of the nameplate, and may arrive with considerably acquainted styling and powertrain choices. It’ll probably journey on an evolution of dad or mum firm Volkswagen Group’s MLB platform designed for premium front-wheel-drive automobiles and located within the present Q5.

Notably, the brand new Q5 would be the final era with fuel engines as Audi will solely launch electrical automobiles from 2026.

Within the case of the SQ5, count on the powertrain to be the identical turbocharged 3.0-liter V-6 present in the present SQ5, probably with a hybrid part connected. Peak energy ought to eclipse the present mannequin’s 349 hp. An 8-speed automated and all-wheel drive also needs to type a part of the bundle.

Manufacturing of the brand new Q5 vary for North America ought to happen at Audi’s plant in Mexico, the place the present mannequin is constructed.

Earlier than we see the brand new Q5, Audi will launch a redesigned A4 Avant wagon. The brand new wagon is rumored to be rebadged an A5 Avant as a part of a naming technique shift that may see internal-combustion fashions characteristic an odd quantity of their names, and electrical automobiles characteristic a good quantity. A redesigned A4 is predicted sooner or later, although as an EV solely.