I love driving my wife's SQ5, we test drove the non S. All Q5 have a very comfortable ride, sharp handling and great acceleration. I have 23 dodge charger r/t daytona and I'm very impressed my wife's q5.

I currently drive a 2024 Audi Q5 on a 3-year lease. The Q5 is my least favorite vehicle that I’ve driven in the last 15 years. On the outside, my black Q5 is glossy and stylish, and looks like a true luxury SUV. But the attractive appearance is probably the only good thing about my Q5. From the inside, the Q5 is driver-unfriendly and prone to technical glitches. First off, the gear-shift is counter-intuitive. Audi might think that the push-button Park gear is technologically advanced, but I’d take the good-old-fashioned gear-stick & parking-brake in most automatic transmission vehicles over the Q5’s any day. Plus, if you just happen to inadvertently tap the Q5’s gear-stick, then the SUV either shifts into “M” (manual) mode or “S” mode. It’s much too easy to do by accident. And “S” mode doesn’t do anything but make the text on your driver display change from S1 to S2, etc. as your speed increases. The Automatic Start/Stop feature is a real pain, because in slow-moving traffic (which I’m often driving in), it just makes the engine shudder frequently. It’s so annoying that, as soon as I start up my Q5, I immediately disable the this function. Plus, in stop-and-go traffic, the Collision Avoidance function kicks-in at the most inappropriate times, causing the SUV to automatically slam on its brakes even where there’s no frontal collision risk whatsoever. But it does increase the risk of the driver behind me ramming into my Q5 when it stops so suddenly. Similarly, the Q5’s Parking Assist system causes the annoying warning signal/sound to start-up the moment I begin pulling into or reversing out of a parking space, even when there no collision risk. The Q5’s Collision Avoidance and Parking Assist features are actually more bothersome and distracting than helpful. Lastly, the Infotainment system in the Q5 is glitchy and user-unfriendly. E.g., after about 6 months, the wireless CarPlay system permanently disconnected from my iPhone and won’t let me reconnect. I’ve tried all the suggested fixes, but nothing has worked. So, now I’m stuck using the Q5’s much more basic MMI system. While the MMI system lets me make & receive calls and play music from my iPhone, it requires me to purchase a subscription from Audi in order to use maps/driving directions. If I had the chance to do my 2024 car lease all over again, I wouldn’t choose the Q5. I’ve owned other so-called “non-luxury” SUVs in the past, and I’d go back to those in a heartbeat over the Q5. GRADE: C-

I currently drive a 2024 Audi Q5 on a 3-year lease. The Q5 is my least favorite vehicle that I’ve driven in the last 15 years. On the outside, my black Q5 is glossy and stylish, and looks like a true luxury SUV. But the attractive appearance is probably the only good thing about my Q5. From the inside, the Q5 is driver-unfriendly and prone to technical glitches. First off, the gear-shift is counter-intuitive. Audi might think that the push-button Park gear is technologically advanced, but I’d take the good-old-fashioned gear-stick & parking-brake in most automatic transmission vehicles over the Q5’s any day. Plus, if you just happen to inadvertently tap the Q5’s gear-stick, then the SUV either shifts into “M” (manual) mode or “S” mode. It’s much too easy to do by accident. And “S” mode doesn’t do anything but make the text on your driver display change from S1 to S2, etc. as your speed increases. The Automatic Start/Stop feature is a real pain, because in slow-moving traffic (which I’m often driving in), it just makes the engine shudder frequently. It’s so annoying that, as soon as I start up my Q5, I immediately disable the this function. Plus, in stop-and-go traffic, the Collision Avoidance function kicks-in at the most inappropriate times, causing the SUV to automatically slam on its brakes even where there’s no frontal collision risk whatsoever. But it does increase the risk of the driver behind me ramming into my Q5 when it stops so suddenly. Similarly, the Q5’s Parking Assist system causes the annoying warning signal/sound to start-up the moment I begin pulling into or reversing out of a parking space, even when there no collision risk. The Q5’s Collision Avoidance and Parking Assist features are actually more bothersome and distracting than helpful. Lastly, the Infotainment system in the Q5 is glitchy and user-unfriendly. E.g., after about 6 months, the wireless CarPlay system permanently disconnected from my iPhone and won’t let me reconnect. I’ve tried all the suggested fixes, but nothing has worked. So, now I’m stuck using the Q5’s much more basic MMI system. While the MMI system lets me make & receive calls and play music from my iPhone, it requires me to purchase a subscription from Audi in order to use maps/driving directions. If I had the chance to do my 2024 car lease all over again, I wouldn’t choose the Q5. I’ve owned other so-called “non-luxury” SUVs in the past, and I’d go back to those in a heartbeat over the Q5. GRADE: C-