2025 Audi Q5 (3rd Generation)

New Audi Q5 Sportback revealed and confirmed for SA!

Meet the new Audi Q5 Sportback, again defined by its sloping roofline and again set to be available in potent SQ5 guise, too. Expect a 2026 market launch in South Africa…

The new Audi Q5 Sportback has been revealed, with the Ingolstadt-based automaker describing this 2nd-generation version’s roofline – which slopes dramatically from the B-pillar and is arguably its defining feature – as “more dynamic” than that of the original.

Based on the 3rd-generation Q5 SUV revealed as recently as September 2024, the new Q5 Sportback has been confirmed for a 2026 launch in South Africa, though exact timing has yet to be announced. Since the standard-bodied Q5 is set to arrive in Mzansi late in 2025, we’d speculate the Sportback should hit local shores relatively early the following year.

Though the SA powertrain line-up has yet to be nailed down, it’s worth noting the new Q5 Sportback will be offered in Europe with a choice of 3 engines from launch (with others, including plug-in hybrid powertrains, set to follow later). Each motor is connected to a 7-speed dual-clutch transmission and features 48-volt mild-hybrid technology, with the latter able to briefly generate up to 18 kW and 230 Nm.

This mild-hybrid system, which additionally powers the electrically driven air-conditioning compressor, can feed up to 25 kW back into the 1.7 kWh lithium-iron-phosphate hybrid battery under deceleration. Interestingly, it furthermore renders the Q5 Sportback capable of what Audi describes as “limited all-electric maneuvering and parking”.

 
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