Hi,
Had my first drive of the Q5 with my wife yesterday from Watford Audi, it was a pretty boring grey 2.0 tdi with vanilla white leather seats. Loads of extras that hide the basic spec very well. Sat Nav was reasonably easy to use and both of us were able to get comfortable. Mirrors are huge though, hadn't quite realised that nearly all the goodies we wanted were all extras. It realy does drive just like a car, minimal body roll but felt very agile and a lot quieter than my B7 Avant. Very impressed with build quality it felt really well put together.........
Then we sat down and did the sums, now I didn't chose that many options but just enough to make it comfortable and I did chose the S Tronic (March onwards) and it came to ?36500. And there's the rub my 56 B7 Avant Sline is down in the ?12500's and for ?27000 I can drive away a new 3.0 Altitude Touareg, Freelander HSE and a month old Discovey HSE and to add insult to the injury for ?3000 less than the Q5 from the same dealer I can get a new Q7.
Now don't get me wrong it's a really nice car to drive as long as you want an elevated A4 but one thing it is not is a ?36500 car. In this market residuals will drop like a stone and the dealer is unlikely to fulfill it's contract on the Q5 and it's a big dealership which was also devoid of salesman and used cars, loads of empty desks and not a lot happening!
I have looked forward to driving this for months and took a day off to fit in with the dealer to get a drive and had the cost to change been reasonable my pen would have been out. But it's not worth ?24000 more than my A4 so my money will now go on something else after 5 Audi's three of which from the same salesman!
I look forward to your views on this............sad day for me....
Had my first drive of the Q5 with my wife yesterday from Watford Audi, it was a pretty boring grey 2.0 tdi with vanilla white leather seats. Loads of extras that hide the basic spec very well. Sat Nav was reasonably easy to use and both of us were able to get comfortable. Mirrors are huge though, hadn't quite realised that nearly all the goodies we wanted were all extras. It realy does drive just like a car, minimal body roll but felt very agile and a lot quieter than my B7 Avant. Very impressed with build quality it felt really well put together.........
Then we sat down and did the sums, now I didn't chose that many options but just enough to make it comfortable and I did chose the S Tronic (March onwards) and it came to ?36500. And there's the rub my 56 B7 Avant Sline is down in the ?12500's and for ?27000 I can drive away a new 3.0 Altitude Touareg, Freelander HSE and a month old Discovey HSE and to add insult to the injury for ?3000 less than the Q5 from the same dealer I can get a new Q7.
Now don't get me wrong it's a really nice car to drive as long as you want an elevated A4 but one thing it is not is a ?36500 car. In this market residuals will drop like a stone and the dealer is unlikely to fulfill it's contract on the Q5 and it's a big dealership which was also devoid of salesman and used cars, loads of empty desks and not a lot happening!
I have looked forward to driving this for months and took a day off to fit in with the dealer to get a drive and had the cost to change been reasonable my pen would have been out. But it's not worth ?24000 more than my A4 so my money will now go on something else after 5 Audi's three of which from the same salesman!
I look forward to your views on this............sad day for me....
