The New Audi S5 in Detail

At the recent 77e Salon International de l'Auto Geneve (77th annual Geneva International Motor Show) early this March, Volkswagen Group's Audi division unveiled their latest luxury high-performance sports coupe in front of the European crowd who participated in the show. The Audi S5 took the center stage in the Audi stand along with the Audi A5 coupe.

As for a sports coupe, the Audi S5 features a sporty and elegant exterior and interior design along with clear functionality. Outside the car, you can find the radiator grille painted in platinum grey and fitted with vertical chrome inlays. The front and rear bumpers are more distinctive along with the air inlet grilles. Other exterior parts found on the Audi S5 include aluminium-look exterior mirror housings, colour-keyed door sill trim, dual-branch exhaust system with four oval tailpipes, xenon plus headlights with daytime running lights featuring LED light sand, 18-inch wheels with 245/40 R 18 performance tires, and the pronounced rear spoiler providing aerodynamic down force for better road-to-vehicle traction.

In addition to sporty exterior parts, Audi S5 also comes with a host of elegant and sporty interior amenities. Customers can choose between the available interior trims including carbon, aluminium, stainless steel or wood. Customers can also feel the dynamic environment on the interior with the car's sports seats, sports steering wheel, instruments with grey dials, and aluminium door sill plates. Just like the VW cargo liner, the Audi S5 also comes with a functional luggage compartment.

Audi tuned up the S5 and installed some of the highest quality chassis parts and powertrain systems. The sports coupe comes with a specially tuned sports suspension and high-performance brakes to provide improved vehicle handling and driving dynamics. The special high-performance brakes with their black painted brake calipers ensure precise deceleration. For challenging drivers who have starving needs for speed, they can fully deactivate the Audi S5's electronic stabilisation program (ESP) and explore the sports coupe's full driving potential.

In terms of performance of a sports coupe, the Audi S5 is equipped with a monstrous V8 FSI 8-cylinder engine with an impressive and powerful output delivering 354 hp (260 kW) and produces 295 lb.-ft. (400 Nm) amount of peak torque at 3,500 rpm. With this V8 FSI engine, the Audi S5 is capable of accelerating from zero to 62 mph in a mere 5.1 seconds. Audi has also included some of the high-end powertrain technology for the V8 engine to boost the Audi S5's performance. The engine comes with a standard FSI direct injection technology with high compression and optimum fuel mixture formation.

The torque distribution is perfectly balanced, 40 percent on the front axle and 60 percent torque out put carried to the vehicle's rear axle. To complete the Audi S5's powertrain system, a six-speed manual gearbox is mated to the engine to power the four wheel drive (4WD) configuration.

Watch out for the Audi S5 when it rolls out in dealerships starting in June 2007, along with the Audi A5 luxury coupe.

By Benjamin Hudson.

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The New Audi A5

With a complete and renewed range, audi makes it's entry in a new segment with high emotional value: Audi A5 combines the Audi design with a great dynamism, and combines refinement with the quality of completion specific to the mark. The modern design confers on the new A5 half-compartment an incomparable elegance and a dynamism. Sporting version of the new large half-compartment Audi, S5 will be available as of marketing in series of the range Audi A5.

The eight cylinders provides 260 kw (354 CH). Its stall torque of 440 Nm is available as of 3.500 tr/min. It hardly propels Audi S5 from 0 to 100 km/h in 5,1 seconds. V8 also draws its great power in new technology FSI with direct injection providing a high compression and an optimal formation of the mixture. The very precise gear box mechanical to six reports/ratios, with short clearances ets provided out of standard while the permanent integral transmission quattro with variable distribution of the couple and a basic distribution of the driving forces of 40 percent with before and 60 percent with the back guarantees a perfect motricity naturally. S5 is equipped in series with rims 18 inches to the new design S with tires 245/40 R 18, of headlights xenon more with the impressive stringcourse of fires of day LED and seats sport to electrical regulation.

The New Audi A5 would arrive on our roads in the 2007 summer. The new audi half-compartment convertible version would be a few months later available in and should possibly replace the convertible Audi A4.

By Charles Piche.