New Audi Cabriolet: Only 15 Seconds to Get the Girl
Audi’s has dropped their A5 and S5 drop-tops at the New York Auto Show. As the hardtop A5 3.2 Quattro is currently sitting on my driveway, I reckon this fresh air version will be, as The Sun newspaper would say, a stunna. In terms of dynamics and comfort, the new A4 platform is a vast improvement over ye old A4’s nose heavy underpinnings. But a question: isn’t 15 seconds a long time for a cloth convertible to lower its lid? And a word of review-foreshadowing warning for perspective A5 Cab buyers: careful with that spec sheet. A faux S5 is the worst of all possible models. Which doesn’t make it horrible. Just . . . inadvisable. And you see that shot with the four people in the A5 Cabriolet? I’d like to see that with the top up. Please.
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What, no Post-Modern Scandinavian commercials of slinky models wearing shirts that disappear in perfect synchrony with the Audi's top??!!? DUDE! -Come ON!!!! [NSFW] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTFl0rNNQrY or, just the end bit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Bf4e2C6fo [/NSFW]
The A5 Cab is by far the best looking car in the 2+2 convertible segment. The new G37 convertible looks much better than I thought it would, but you're looking at 30 seconds to put the top up or down there, and when it's down, you can't fit so much as a ham sandwich in what's left of the trunk. The A5 even with the top down still has enough space to be a practical, everyday car.