Yahoo Autos 2021 Audi Q5 gets more power, new look, and better technology
Audi updated the Q5, its best-selling model in the United States, with a redesigned front end, more power, and new available rear lights that use technology television fans will be familiar with. It's due out later in 2020.
Stylists tweaked the Q5's front end with a light hand. The idea was to bring it in line with other recent additions to the Audi range, like the second-generation Q3, not to start from scratch and give it a completely new face. Its grille is wider and shorter, its headlights gain new lighting elements, and the air vents chiseled into the front bumper have a new shape. Out back, the big news is that OLED lights are available for the first time. That's the same technology found in some televisions, and the company pointed out putting it on a car makes sense.
"In addition to perfect contrast, the benefits of digital OLED are a high level of homogeneity and minimal gap between the segments. Looking to the future, OLED is the perfect technology for executing personalized light design with a high degree of precision and extensive variability. This technology offers all sorts of opportunities for further development," explained Stephan Berlitz, Audi's head of development for light innovation.
Many of Audi's lighting-related innovations (like its matrix-beam lights) have been illegal in the United States; OLED lights are an exception. They come standard on the range-topping SQ5 Prestige, and Berlitz's comments suggest they'll spread across the company's line-up of models in the not-too-distant future.
Inside, the Q5 benefits from the latest generation of Audi's infotainment system displayed on a 10.1-inch touchscreen. The software is compatible with wireless Apple CarPlay, and it allows users to receive over-the-air updates, including navigation if the buyer chooses not to purchase it when ordering the car. The digital, driver-configurable instrument cluster remains available, and the list of electronic driving aids grew with the addition of lane departure warning, parking sensors on both ends, plus Audi side assist with pre-sense rear.
