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RE: 1st RHD SQ5 review - Whatcar - griff - 17-05-2013 09:46am
its on my list for next year as I am more interested in 4x4 for snow and tracks than out and out mud plugging.
I just hope that LR upgrade the evoque as I would buy another if the current niggles are sorted, power being one of them.
RE: 1st RHD SQ5 review - Whatcar - Straydox - 17-05-2013 10:10pm
(16-05-2013 11:28pm)XFullFatTim Wrote: Very nice, I have at long last been able to persuade the local Audi dealer to let me have a test drive in one. I don't hold out much hope as the last time I went to them for a test drive of their A6Allroad it had turned into an A6 Saloon with a 2.0ltr engine............because despite having an appointment made a week earlier to drive their AllRoad they had given the salesman who was looking after it the day off the day I was to drive it.
Thanks Tim, I'd be curious to hear your thoughts. It doesn't have all the off-road settings of an Evoque aside from a hill descent function (or the ground clearance either for that matter) though Audi claim that the drive train is 'terrain-sensing' sounds like marketing blurb to me - some stuff on it here:
Audi SQ5 Quattro pages
And the self-locking Centre diff is the new Torsen T3 - which is technically neat and apparently maintenance free.
Torsen T3
It seems Audi have a wide range of tyre suppliers - some people are getting mud & snow tyres and others like myself pure road - Michelin Latitude Sport, they'll be cheap to replace, not!
RE: 1st RHD SQ5 review - Whatcar - XFullFatTim - 18-05-2013 12:48am
Audi are so modest in claiming the Audi Quattro was the first 4WD car............. Conveniently forgetting one of my dream cars of the late sixties - the Jensen Interceptor FF........... Which also had ABS and Dunlop run flat tyres long before anybody else, let alone BMW or Audi, thought to use them!