Published:
14 March 2017If you’re familiar with other recent Audis, this is the section of the road test you could write having tested the car blindfolded.
It’s now common thinking in the car industry that if you want to see a benchmark interior, you look at an Audi, and the Q5 is as predictable as Manchester City taking all three points, landing right where you’d expect it to be.
Shall we start with the driving position? We might as well, because in some recent Audis an offset positioning has been the one thing you might like to criticise.
No such drama here, though: the wheel sits dead centre of the seat, and although the brake and accelerator pedals are both offset, it’s to the right, where you’d hope. The seven-speed dual-clutch auto ’box means there’s no clutch pedal to bother about.
You sit lower than you might in a Discovery Sport – or that’s how it feels, owing to the Q5’s higher window line, which gives a greater sense of car-likeness. Even so, there’s enough elevation here to keep buyers wanting a tall seating position happy.
Accommodation in the rear is good, too. There’s enough space for adults to sit behind adults, which is about the best you can ask for, while the Q5’s luggage bay dimensions have presumably been rubber-stamped somewhere with the Ingolstadt equivalent of ‘requirements met’.
