2026 Audi A5 TFSI 150kW review

Audi has abandoned its plan to cause widespread confusion by renaming all of its combustion-powered models, though not before launching the A5 Sedan.

Despite its name, the Audi A5 Sedan – which replaced the A4 Sedan and A5 Sportback last year – is technically a Sportback and not a Sedan. That’s because this BMW 3 Series and Mercedes-Benz C-Class rival is a five-door liftback, not a four-door sedan.

Audi has called it a sedan anyway, perhaps because it looks like a sedan… oh wait, it really doesn’t. It looks like a liftback. A fairly handsome one too, despite its somewhat overwrought front-end styling and a move away from the crisply tailored lines of the old A4 Sedan.

It’s rounder, with a hint of A7 at the rear – that chunky full-width light bar is distinctive, and we love the lighting animations it plays when you lock and unlock the vehicle. The daytime running lights also have multiple selectable signatures, a pointless gimmick that may entertain a handful of people.