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Fifth-generation Audi A4 debuts in grand style

By Editorial board
03 July 2015   |   8:28 am
THE fifth-generation Audi A4 has been unveiled, revealing its evolutionary exterior, contemporary interior, heavily revised petrol and diesel engine line-up and newly developed chassis ahead of a planned public premiere for Ingolstadt’s crucial new executive class saloon and estate at the Frankfurt motor show in September.
Audi A4

Audi A4

THE fifth-generation Audi A4 has been unveiled, revealing its evolutionary exterior, contemporary interior, heavily revised petrol and diesel engine line-up and newly developed chassis ahead of a planned public premiere for Ingolstadt’s crucial new executive class saloon and estate at the Frankfurt motor show in September.

Key elements include a wider single-frame grille, newly shaped headlights with revised LED daytime running light graphics, a clamshell-style bonnet, larger wheelhouses, a flatter roof, a more prominent shoulder with a deep swage line running the length of the flanks, greater structure in the lower part of the doors, sharp new tail-lights featuring a new take on Audi’s traditional LED graphics and, on the saloon, a higher boot lid.

Although appearing a lot like a facelifted version of its predecessor, every body panel is described as new. Greater attention to aerodynamics, including the adoption of a largely flat undertray and detailed sculpturing around the rear end, has also netted the new Audi a class-leading drag co-efficient of 0.23 for the saloon.

The new A4 has grown, but only slightly. With a length of 4726mm, width of 1842mm and height of 1427mm, it is 25mm longer, 16mm wider and the same height as its predecessor in saloon guise. This makes it 41mm longer, 32mm wider and 13mm lower than the latest Mercedes-Benz C-Class.

The adoption of the latest evolution of Audi’s MLB platform has also seen its wheelbase increase by 12mm to 2820mm.

Despite the bump in size, Audi claims the A4’s weight has been reduced by up to 120kg through the adoption of hot-formed high-strength steel within the body structure and aluminium for various body panels, including the roof.

While its exterior styling leans heavily on that of its predecessor, the interior of the new A4 boasts a contemporary new design that provides it with greater space than ever before. Audi claims an additional 24mm of headroom in combination with 11mm more shoulder aroom up front. The incremental stretch in the wheelbase has also provided the basis for a 23mm increase in rear seat legroom.

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