Based on the Audi A5 will construct five-door hatchback

Audi is going in 2009 to launch production of a further modification of the model Audi A4 - five-door hatchback, which will be named A5 Sportback. This car, according to British publication Car, will be about the same length as the recently introduced sedan A4 Avant, but it will be wider and lower - as a coupe Audi A5. In the lineup Audi future new product will take an intermediate position between the utilitarian station wagon and sports coupe. According to British media is one of the engineers, Audi, "the name of its line, and Avant and we will make Sportback very tough competition and the BMW 3-Series and Mercedes C-Class with a body of 'universal'." According to him, A5 Sportback just will not, and "four-door sedan" like the Mercedes CLS and Volkswagen CC - this role ugotovlena another vehicle, which is based on Audi A6 new generation. According to preliminary information, for A5 Sportback until there are only two engines - a two-liter gasoline turbo power of 211 horsepower and 240-hp turbodiesel V6. According to tradition, this car will be available with all-wheel drive quattro, and with the drive only on the front axle.