Audi has already begun to reduce its range of models for the coming future marked by electric cars. The German firm has already announced the first two models that will be dropped from the offer at the end of its commercial life and confirmed that the A8 will become an electric one. But there are more models to which the cross has been hung, one of them the Audi A5 Sportback.
In the middle of summer 2009, Audi presented the third body in the Audi A5 range, a sports sedan that made its debut in the D segment as a more practical alternative to the two-door model, with all the sportiness of the coupé but with the wheelbase of the Audi A4which allowed him to conquer customers for whom the fifth door, the tailgate, was a key in the purchase decision of the A5 Sportsbackideal for those who did not need the A4 Avant.
A movement that forced BMW to move quickly to launch an option alternative with the Series 4 Gran Coupé that arrived in 2013, while those of Mercedes have never succumbed to this more special approach. But the brand with the four rings is immersed in one of the most ambitious strategies in its history, in the midst of transforming its range of products to electric cars and in which they have already made it more than clear that not everyone has a place. The A8 will become a major electric and the A1 and Q2 are already sentenced.
Electric futures will cause the loss of Audi combustion models
The Audi A4 also goes gaining integers from following the same strategy as the Passat, abandoning traditional combustion to transform into a zero-emissions model in sight, confirming that the Markus Duesman-led brand has taken a radical turn in recent weeks towards full electrification. But there is one more that, according to our informants, It has no place in the range of electric futures and is the A5 Sportback.
According to them, the brand with the four rings will exhaust the commercial life cycle of this sports sedan to shelve it as soon as the end comes. And it is not far at all, because the second generation of the Audi A5 Sportback arrived in September 2016 and its life cycle is at least 7 years, so in theory in 2023 it should go out of production. In practice, the sources do not rule out that Audi extends this life cycle for another year and a half, at mostreaching almost until 2025.
One of the most important models of the firm, of great commercial success, but which Audi is forced to move on taking into account that, this time, those of Munich have advanced with the commercialization of the new BMW i4 and those of the star are already preparing a new generation of the Mercedes EQC, which will become a sedan, since the new EQE SUV will practically be a replacement for the current EQC. The Ingolstadt brand will follow the logical line that the vast majority of manufacturers have undertaken in the development of electric cars, and especially its most direct competitors, betting on traditional sedans and SUVs, mainly.