2021 Audi Q5 vs 2022

What's the difference?

The mid-size SUV is now a brand's most crucial model. 

Now the defining volume seller of our age, the ever-popular category transcends brand and market position – and Audi is no exception.

To that end, the German brand reminds us that Q5 is its most successful SUV, having sold almost 40,000 units in Australia so far. No pressure on this new one then, which brings some much-needed updates to the current-generation SUV which launched back in 2017.

Has Audi done enough to keep the Q5 sticking it to its (also very good) arch-rivals from Germany and the world for years to come? We sampled the updated car at its Australian launch to find out.

Audi’s new Q5 35 TDI joins the company’s local line-up at a crucial time. Fuel prices are sky-high so, in light of that, any potential savings a vehicle may yield in its day-to-day operation only serve to further bolster its appeal more than anything else at the moment.

The limited edition Q5 35 TDI is, Audi reckons, the most fuel-efficient diesel SUV on offer in the Australian market with a combined fuel consumption of 4.8L/100km and a theoretical driving range of more than 1400km – but, as always, we prefer to real-word test any car makers’ claims for ourselves, rather than merely take them at face value.

So, what’s the new Q5 like? 

Read on.