Hofele Design’s R8-inspired Audi A5 styling kit

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What’s a successful halo car? In our opinion, a halo car has fulfilled its purpose if models below it start to ape big brother. The Lancer Evo is a classic example, and Audi seems to have executed a similar masterstroke with its R8 supercar. The mid-engined beauty that Tony Stark drives is so cool that it’s inspiring “R8 style” kits for cars like the Audi A5 and TT.

German tuner Hofele Design takes a shot at this direction with kits for the A5 Coupe, Convertible and Sportback. It comes with an R8-look front bumper with the air vents below the headlamps. Coupe and Convertible owners can even match it with the R8′s signature side blades and a rear bumper with faux air-outlets and integrated diffuser. Four exhaust tips complete the “transformation”.

Style is subjective – some might like it, but we think that these add-ons contaminate the sleek, classy design of the A5. Not to mention proclaiming to the whole world that “I can’t afford an R8″. I have seen an Audi TT with similar looks in the Klang Valley and was nearly fooled, from a distance I must add.

More pictures after the jump!

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  1. austin_cipan says:

    fugly…

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  2. wanfumi says:

    FUGLY BOTTOM

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  3. jean says:

    Front… sweet….

    Back… Over doing it.. No No

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  4. theanswer says:

    agree..ugly rear.

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  5. chinaman says:

    its like china made car =D

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  6. Captain Cook says:

    Wasted… Fugly

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  7. jg says:

    Audi, yeah

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  8. adioss says:

    Rubbish

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  9. Netz says:

    spoil a perfectly good looking car….

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  10. techboy_88 says:

    Ah Beng car, German/Deutschland version.

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  11. csv says:

    what a waste. the original A5 is already a beauty to behold. the only bodykit that should fit on the a5 is either the s-line bodykit, or those by caractere. nothing else.

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  12. eadgez says:

    looks ugly. everything is pfect except with the black. :(

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  13. wAzYz says:

    too much makeup lorrrr..
    ruin the originality….huhu

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  14. mr_3m says:

    the R8 look may work on the TT becos of similar silhoutte/shape between the the two… but on the A5??? It’s eff-ing UGLY… it will never work on a sedan-shape coupe like the A5…

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  15. farghmee says:

    was ist das?

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  16. mitlanevo says:

    gotta agree with eadgez, i think all-white should be better…

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  17. Alex Toh says:

    no way……rear side problem

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  18. kodok says:

    too much bling-bling

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  19. rid says:

    pathetic.. i always been audi’s fan.. but the color combination’s really sick esp at the side…. don’t ruin audi.. plss

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  20. fiz17 says:

    very beuty car!!i love it

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  21. JOhn says:

    i wonder which fool will buy this car…its so damn ugly….

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  22. c14man says:

    spoils the whole point of A5 being a subtly sexy car.
    it was a car that stands out without even trying hard.
    this “sporty” body kit just doesnt match A5′s characteristics.
    gotta vote against it.

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  23. Gajen says:

    ugly like shit…prefer the stock a5 or s5

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  24. kuku stim says:

    It’s beautiful… in the way a mushroom stuck up your ars* looks beautiful. :-D

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  25. shawal says:

    this bodykit makes you look poor , an A5 is a svelt , elegant coupe , this kind of bodykit shud go on the RS4/RS6

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  26. xshiro says:

    front looks ok..

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  27. paparazi says:

    later will sell it at Why Pay More Store…. i rather without this so call styling kit

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  28. GL3n says:

    What the shit……..whatever it is! LOL!
    You shouldn’t do it Hofele!

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  29. Mazda 3 MPS says:

    i think…no….

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  30. skinky says:

    lol, i have been seeing that fake TT around jln imbi alot whenever i head up to kl. it’s so….. bleah

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  31. Ah Beng Ko says:

    too less done. should add F1 A380 spoiler, Twin Giant Airscope, Super Tuber Alum. Intercooler Double Super “Chass”, big & small stickers “too fast, ultra fast”, ” turned by Ah beng & ah lian” couple, Nismo, TRD, Mugen all Zhap Ba Lang….eh?? how come look like our proton wira EVO VVXXll ?

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  32. toycar says:

    sorry folks… my car just kena bang by someone, under repaint :) , so bumper color is different..

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  33. I-HATE-GG889933000-GOVERNMENT says:

    Stupid make over.. I guess the workshop is consider ‘ah beng’ category in their region…

    Audi A5 should has his own styling…

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  34. coolguru says:

    What a disgrace to an otherwise great looking automobile… sigh!

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  35. GL3n says:

    I hope this is just a 3D rendering…
    Please Hofele do NOT make this crap into productions…please..
    You are lowering the A5 status symbol.

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  36. khaix19a says:

    rear is ugly…..front is ok…..i think better leave a5 alone rather than turn it to hideous car…..

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  37. Mohd says:

    Hahaha, I just had a look at their webpage. There you can find even more ugly ‘designs’…

    I’m just wondering in which part of the world they sell their ‘design creations’ ?

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  38. Wen says:

    beyond fugly.
    god help the tuners who came up with that bkit.

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  39. mystvearn says:

    My Eyes!

    Blinded by the back

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  40. 4ringfan says:

    Pathetic. Terrible.

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  41. droll says:

    i have seen that audi TT too, around bkt bintang area. what a poser! it’s proportions looked really weird from a distance even though the styling seemed to point towards an R8. the proportions was a give-away.

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  42. meteoraniac says:

    the back just doesnt makes sense .. kind of reminds me of wannabe Evo on Waja rear …

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  43. Patrick says:

    the front bumper seems nice (if the black part above the side vents are white)… the sides and rear are terrible tho…..

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  44. CatmaN says:

    front look…ok, can consider flawless. backside..overdone, summore with the 2 tone paintjob. wud prefer Caracter’s bodykit over this Hofele thingy..

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  45. Boink says:

    this is like a sick joke

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  46. W. says:

    Pelik.

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  47. Saifful says:

    It may look ugly in pictures, but in real life up close, I might think differently.

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  48. narrowband says:

    fugly.

    the stock S5 is already a beautiful ride.

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  49. no eye see says:

    like a puzzle that out of fixes, simply taruh…. hehe…
    will give some respect to those future buyers with a kind of taste

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  50. Mel says:

    Ugly like hell.

    Yeah I ‘ve seen the R8 wannabe near Imbi area as well…I ‘m a firm believer that you should stay true to yourself, pity buggers who paste RS4, M3 etc badges on their car when it’s nothing more than a standard model…

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  51. mu_77 says:

    One of the figliest audi seen… I prefer the standard one..

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  52. Jozain says:

    Audi???Oh yeah…

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  53. wochomi says:

    Audi @ performance luxury —->transform—–> Ah Tee @ Ah beng class

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  54. Timo says:

    Desparate looking. make-believe vents? Hofelle could do better.

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  55. solidxtate says:

    A perfect way to tell the whole world….look guys, i am desperate for the R8 but i can’t aford one

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  56. CH says:

    LOL
    look like another ah beng copycat car
    ugly

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  57. Friqo says:

    i saw the TT which i tot it ws a r8 hahaha..i saw it at pavi yesterday…dang the kit looks good..

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  58. fiz says:

    nice styling bodykit,cheers

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