The new Audi Q5 isn’t about flamboyance, but gravitas
Teetering on the brink of the forties, years of living and acquired savoir faire, cast their shadow in discreet, subliminal ways. You can sense, for example, that something strange is afoot when you feel, genuinely, like taking a road trip with the girlfriend.
Your ride for the trip, the new Audi Q5, seems perfectly content with that decision. The SUV, when you set eyes on it for the first time, doesn’t set your heart racing. None of those familiar stirrings of instant infatuation that so many men—pardon the gender, since this writer can’t claim spokesmanship for women—make an appearance. It’s a good-looking car, but not drop-dead gorgeous; on the road it does your bidding with reasonable urgency but not in a manic fashion; its flamboyance isn’t avant garde, but classy in an assured old-money kind of way.
This story is from the March 19, 2018 edition of India Today.
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