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When a 5 is a 10; Audi's A5 and S5 are perfect beauties.
Byline: Natalie Neff
Remember the Audi Nuvolari, that stunning 600-hp grand tourer shown at Geneva in 2003? If that car blew you away, you may find the A5, the production car crafted in its image, a bit of a departure, but we swear you will like it even more. No, you won't find the Nuvolari's smoking 5.0-liter twin-turbo V10 under the hood of any model in the A5 lineup (RS5, anyone?), and not even the fantastic S5 will sprint to 60 mph from a standstill in 4.1 seconds. You will, however, discover that Ingolstadt can cram more beauty into a single car than you thought possible.
Where the Nuvolari concept followed an extreme but literal interpretation of the Audi design language, looking at it now, the car feels a bit too deliberately slab-sided, too rounded off, too oversized-TT. The A5 could have followed the same course; instead, Audi's first four-seat coupe in 11 years delivers a fresh take on the familiar, with more surface interest, more sensuousness, than anyone would expect ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, When a 5 is a 10; Audi's A5 and S5 are perfect beauties.