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As domestic SUV models gradually become the choice of more consumers, various car companies will also launch more SUV models one after another. Oddly enough, the SUV Coupe version does not sell well in China, but there are more car companies filling in this field.

A few days ago, Audi officially revealed that it will build Audi Q5 Sportback (or named Q5 sedan) based on Audi Q5. The new car will compete with BMW X4 and Mercedes-Benz GLC sedan in the future. The new car will be launched globally at the end of 2020, and this model will be made in China at FAW-Volkswagen Audi in the future.

There is even news that Audi Q5 Sportback's first body-in-white has been officially offline on December 11, 2019, and its project is codenamed AU246/1. In the future, this model will become the second model produced by the welding workshop of Changchun Q factory (the first is Audi Q5L). Judging from the exposed pictures, the rear of the white model does use a slippery back shape. For this reason, there is also a certain degree of authenticity to the news.

It is understood that this model is the first FAW-Volkswagen SOP Audi model project synchronized with Europe, which means that Audi Q5 Sportback will be very close to overseas models on the market.

As the car still does not have much information, according to the previous rendering of overseas media. There are many changes on the new car and the current Q5, including the use of a family-style hexagonal honeycomb grille in front and a brand new LED daytime light belt on both sides, the overall style is more athletic, which is closer to the Coupe positioning.

The side design and cash design do not change much, only adjust to the back shape for the tail, and replace the more sporty wheels at the same time. As for the size, we can't see much from the white body. As it has been made in China, it should also be similar to the cash Q5 in size. In the aspect of tail, the current family-style penetrating taillight design is adopted.

Although more and more consumers choose SUV models in the current Chinese automobile market, according to the SUV models that FAW-Volkswagen has been integrated into in recent years, they are all Coupe models, including FAW-Volkswagen Tanyue Coupe, FAW Audi Q3 Coupe version and FAW Audi Q5 Coupe version and so on.

Although the current launch of the Coupe SUV has become a major trend of global automakers, this type of model is not popular and can even be described as poor performance. According to the comparison of Coupe SUV sales of Audi's rival brands, Mercedes-Benz GLC sold about 10,000 vehicles this month, while GLE sold about 3000, while GLC/GLE Coupe sold only about 100 in the same period. The monthly sales of the BMW X3 are about 10,000, the BMW X5 is 3,000, while the BMW X4 and X6 are relatively high, at around 200. it can be seen that even the major models that entered the Coupe SUV earlier have performed very poorly in the market.

Of course, with the current Q5 terminal offers in the market sales are also considerable, the launch of Q5 Coupe may be slightly higher than Mercedes-Benz and BMW brands, but from this market area, the brand can not bring more sales, if only to enrich the SUV market, then the outcome will be the same as the above-mentioned models.

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