{"id":80049,"date":"2025-01-30T06:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T11:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=80049"},"modified":"2025-01-30T06:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T11:03:15","slug":"1144550_2027-audi-rs-5-spy-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=80049","title":{"rendered":"2027 Audi RS 5 spied with new details"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>The redesigned 2026 Audi A5 will soon spawn a high-performance RS 5 flagship<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The new RS 5 will come with liftback and wagon body styles<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Power will likely come from a plug-in hybrid powertrain built around a twin-turbo V-6<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Audi has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1143758_2025-audi-a5-s5-revealed-replaces-a4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new A5<\/a> headed to showrooms shortly as a 2026 model, and once again there will be a high-performance RS 5 flagship, prototypes for which are still out testing.<\/p>\n<p>Our latest spy shots show a prototype for an RS 5 liftback, but also out testing is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1142110_2026-audi-rs-5-avant-spy-shots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RS 5 Avant wagon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"static-marker-video-player-primis\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The redesigned A5 is based on Volkswagen Group&#8217;s new <strong>Premium Platform Combustion (PPC) architecture<\/strong> designed for gas and hybrid cars, and this time around there are only the liftback and wagon body styles for most markets, while a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1145026_new-audi-a5-launched-as-proper-sedan-in-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">traditional sedan option<\/a> is available exclusively in China.<\/p>\n<p>The previous generation didn&#8217;t have a wagon body style, but it did offer coupe and convertible body styles in addition to a liftback. The <strong>coupe and convertible won&#8217;t be repeated<\/strong> with the new generation due to low demand.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_wrapper first_wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" name=\"tccimg_100936156_m\" title=\"2025 Audi A5 S Line\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAD\/ACwAAAAAAQABAAACADs=\" alt=\"2025 Audi A5 S Line\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"first_image lazy\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"768\" data-url=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/audi-a5_100936156_l.webp\" data-src-h=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/hug\/audi-a5_100936156_h.webp\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/audi-a5_100936156_l.webp\" data-src-l=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/audi-a5_100936156_l.webp\" data-src-m=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/audi-a5_100936156_m.webp\" data-src-s=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/sml\/audi-a5_100936156_s.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>2025 Audi A5 S Line<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The redesigned A5 made its debut last July, in regular A5 and sporty S5 guises. The RS 5 is expected to debut late this year or early next, meaning it will likely be offered as a 2027 model in the U.S. The A5 and S5 are due in showrooms this spring or summer.<\/p>\n<p>We know the latest prototype is for an RS 5 and not the A5 or S5 because of the large intakes in the front fascia, the wide fenders housing a widened track, the huge cross-drilled brake rotors, and the <strong>signature RS oval exhaust tips<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Audi hasn&#8217;t mentioned plans for a new RS 5, but the car is expected to feature a plug-in hybrid powertrain using the same <strong>twin-turbocharged 2.9-liter V-6<\/strong> found in the previous RS 5. The addition of one or more electric motors should help boost power from the previous RS 5&#8217;s 444 hp. That will let it put up a fight against the 671 hp of the Mercedes-Benz AMG C 63 S E Performance, which is also a plug-in hybrid.<\/p>\n<p>The RS 5 liftback is almost certain for the U.S. market, though the jury is still out on whether Audi will bring over the RS 5 Avant. The automaker currently sells the bigger RS 6 Avant, though 2025 will be the car&#8217;s final model year. Both an electric <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1144387_2026-audi-rs-6-avant-e-tron-spy-shots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RS 6 Avant E-Tron<\/a> and a plug-in hybrid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1143817_2026-audi-rs-7-avant-spy-shots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RS 7 Avant<\/a> will fill the gap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The redesigned 2026 Audi A5 will soon spawn a high-performance RS 5 flagship The new RS 5 will come with liftback and wagon body styles Power will likely come from a plug-in hybrid powertrain built around a twin-turbo V-6 Audi has a new A5 headed to showrooms shortly as a 2026 model, and once again [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design-concepts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}