Audi A5
The renamed compact executive car's line-up expands with a new E-hybrid PHEV powertrain You can now buy a new Audi A5 Avant, and that’s neither a typo nor the promise of some sort of coupé-based shooting brake.Audi briefly decided to shake up its model-naming structure so that all the odd-numbered cars had combustion engines while all the even-numbered cars had batteries and electric motors. But after the move proved generally confusing, it has already ditched that approach – although it won't rename models already released, so some oddities remain.This means that, after being known as the 80 for 25 years and the A4 for 20 years, Audi’s compact executive saloon/estate now prefers to be known as the A5 – and, as per tradition, there’s a faster Audi S5 version, which we've reviewed separately.There's also a new plug-in hybrid powertrain, which will carry the new E-hybrid label. Audi says the branding is designed to make the new PHEVs “recognisable at first glance”. We're not fully sure it does, but it's definitely a welcome step forward compared with the whole odd/even thing and Audi's previous model-numbering system that was so loosely related to power output that it rivalled Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariff equation for befuddling opaqueness.
The renamed compact executive car's line-up expands with a new E-hybrid PHEV powertrain
You can now buy a new Audi A5 Avant, and that’s neither a typo nor the promise of some sort of coupé-based shooting brake.Audi briefly decided to shake up its model-naming structure so that all the odd-numbered cars had combustion engines while all the even-numbered cars had batteries and electric motors. But after the move proved generally confusing, it has already ditched that approach – although it won't rename models already released, so some oddities remain.This means that, after being known as the 80 for 25 years and the A4 for 20 years, Audi’s compact executive saloon/estate now prefers to be known as the A5 – and, as per tradition, there’s a faster Audi S5 version, which we've reviewed separately.There's also a new plug-in hybrid powertrain, which will carry the new E-hybrid label. Audi says the branding is designed to make the new PHEVs “recognisable at first glance”. We're not fully sure it does, but it's definitely a welcome step forward compared with the whole odd/even thing and Audi's previous model-numbering system that was so loosely related to power output that it rivalled Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariff equation for befuddling opaqueness. 
