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Audi is rolling out a raft of updates to the A5, A6, Q5, A6 e-tron, and Q6 e-tron, all of which made their international debuts within the final year-and-a-half.
The oldest mannequin within the quartet is the Q6 e-tron (March 2024), adopted by the A5 (July 2024), A6 e-tron (July 2024), Q5 (September 2024), and A6 (March 2025).
Main the updates is the steering wheel, which ditches the capacitive sliders on each spokes for bodily scrolling wheels.
A spokesperson informed Motor1, “The explanation for the change is suggestions from clients who’ve more and more requested operation with bodily controls.”
Audi’s latest mannequin, the second-generation Q3, misses out on this replace, for now. The quartet of fashions listed above achieve the Q3’s infotainment and instrumentation interface, which has a simplified construction, bigger on-screen icons, and the flexibility to indicate smartphone navigation directions on the instrumentation display.
The in-car gaming system now helps wi-fi controllers, like these used on gaming consoles.
Bodily features of the inside stay untouched, with many of the automobiles’ features nonetheless accessed through on-screen buttons or the steering wheel controls.
There could also be extra inside adjustments in retailer for these fashions once they obtain their mid-life facelifts, with the Idea C, unveiled in September, stated to preview a return to top quality buttons, knobs and switches.
Different adjustments embody a brand new Dynamic Plus driving mode for the S5 and S6 e-tron that retunes the all-wheel drive and torque vectoring methods to ship a “significantly intense driving expertise”.
Within the electrical A6 e-tron and Q6 e-tron the regenerative braking system has been revised in order that it may well convey the automobile to an entire cease with out partaking the friction brakes.
The A6 additionally positive factors the choice of digital matrix micro-LED headlights, which aren’t solely brighter, however can show symbols on the highway forward if the driving force is drifting out of their lane or the automobile senses icy circumstances forward. A factory-fitted 4K dashcam is now on the choices record for all 5 mannequin traces.
The voice assistant has been upgraded with ChatGPT integration. It will probably additionally entry extra of the automobiles’ numerous methods, and may automate a driver’s frequent routines, like elevating the automobile when crossing railway tracks or partaking adaptive cruise management on a freeway.
In Germany the up to date automobiles will start showing in showrooms from the start of 2026. It’s unclear when these adjustments can be accessible in automobiles offered in Australia.
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