A report by UK’s Autocar magazine says Audi’s A5 will be unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show this year. Despite talk that the A5 will be a 4-door coupe competitor to the Mercedes Benz CLS, spy shots have suggested the Audi A5 will most likely a classic 2-door coupe, very sleek, very nice, very similiar to the previously exhibited Audi Nuvolari Concept pictured above. The Audi Nuvolari quattro Concept made it’s debut at the 2003 Geneva Motor Show, so you can say 4 years later it will be reincarnated as the Audi A5!
Debuting for the first time is the usage of Audi’s new MLP platform, which stands for Modular Platform for longtitudinally mounted engines. Current Audis like the Audi A4 I tested last year has it’s engine positioned longtitudinally ahead of the front axle, hence the long front overhang and a very nose-heavy weight balance. Audi’s new MLP chassis has the engine mounted longtitudinally behind the axle, allowing for better weight balance. Combined with quattro, Audi has the ability to tune cars using the new MLP chassis to either understeer or oversteer or have neutral handling.
More photos of the Audi Nuvolari Concept after the jump.
After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history. An avid electronic gadget aficionado as well as big-time coffee lover, he's also the executive producer of the Driven motoring TV programme.
yum…beautifulll….smooth, simple & nice..
simple, and far mature than r8 or tt,
got the essence without overdoing,
sucessfull concept, after 4 years still a iresistable piece of sculpture.
I think future A4s will look like these. Strikingly bold & futuristic, yet simple.
Perghhh, strecth TT, i presumed…..
A5 appearance is better to R8 anytime if they make it like the picture. It should have been a 4 doors version to challenge the CLS and leave the two doors market to TT and R8.
Unfortunately beyond my reach……..
jz wait n see…
I nearly wanted to say that it looked like the Audi Nuvolari Quattro but it actually is the Nuvolari. Too bad it has always been a concept model. The Nuvolari in GT4 was a beast of a car with monstrous torque even in stock form.
Hopefully the A5 will live up to the pedigree of what we have come to expect.
too plain esp side profile
its going to be styled by walter de silva.
so this is obviously going to be a good looker.
my cheque book is ready.
This is realli Classic Audi.
Only Audi can manage to make sports cars so sleek!