Sexy 2025 Audi RS 5 Avant rendered
Audi’s incoming RS 5 high-performance wagon looks the part in unofficial images, based on recent spy shotsYou’ve seen the spy photographs, now get ready for the unmasked (and unofficial) renders of the 2025 Audi RS 5 Avant.
The first digital images of Audi’s upcoming high-performance wagon have surfaced on the internet, speculating just how the next-generation plug-in hybrid machine might look after a camouflaged prototype was caught in action last month.
And the answer is feisty.
Tipped to offer RS 6 levels of power and torque, the RS 5 Avant will replace the RS 4 Avant as Audi’s premier mid-size performance car, maintaining the rage against the BMW M3 and Mercedes-AMG C 63 S E Performance.
The rendered vehicle in the images you see here from Kolesa.ru uses the current Audi RS 4 Avant as its basis, but the designer has instilled the slimline features and gaping grille glimpsed through the camouflage of the RS 5 prototype spotted last month – and seen again on the standard A5 Avant pre-production car spied a few weeks ago.
Key changes include a bigger, redesigned grille, relocated Audi logo larger intakes, smoother lines, full-width rear lighting signature and centralised exhaust outlets.
Overall, the RS 5 Avant looks a lot sleeker than its predecessor and will surely boast an improved drag coefficient, which should help maximise the electric range provided by its plug-in hybrid powertrain.
It’s unclear at this stage if the PHEV powertrain will be based around a four-cylinder petrol engine or a V6, but either way outputs of at least 400kW/800Nm are on the cards.
Quattro all-wheel drive is a guaranteed inclusion, as is a sub-4.0sec 0-100km/h time, considering the current RS 4 Avant stops the clock in a brisk 4.1sec.
But why is the RS 5 – traditionally a coupe – replacing the RS 4 as Audi’s hi-po mid-size wagon?
The brand is reworking its naming strategy to have even-numbered nameplates refer to EVs, while odd numbers will be designated for internal combustion or hybrid cars.
That means the next RS 4 will be a very different beast to the one we know and love today.
Our sources tell us the new A5 family will retain some small-capacity internal combustion engines in its lower ranks but will focus on plug-in hybrids in the middle and upper reaches of the range.
The RS 5 is set to sit at the top of the tree once it debuts in 2025 – hopefully with an electrified V6.
Digital images: Kolesa.ru
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