Audi is slowly shedding all its coupes and convertibles

Audi may quickly be left with no coupes or convertibles in Australia, because the model strikes away from these physique kinds globally.

“It’s positively diminishing,” stated Audi Australia product planning supervisor Peter Strudwicke about coupe and convertible demand.

“Individuals are sort of transferring to totally different physique kinds which might be type of new, so Sportbacks is a kind of issues.

“It may be a Sportback in a low-riding automotive like an A5, or it may be an SUV Sportback.

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“So there are rising new physique kinds, it’s at all times altering and we’re at all times responding to these adjustments.

“However positively the quantity of quantity we’re seeing in coupes and convertibles has been steadily lowering, and it’s not simply us. You see different producers as effectively are both lowering or stopping manufacturing of sure variants of these forms of automobiles.”

Audi Australia not too long ago launched Competitors Plus packages for its RS4 and RS5, however opted to solely convey the latter right here in five-door Sportback guise regardless that the RS5 Coupe is out there with this bundle in Europe.

“The rationale why we provided the Competitors Plus on the Sportback A5 is as a result of that considerably outsells the coupe,” stated Mr Strudwicke.

He additionally famous the coupe was dominated out because the Competitors Plus’ signature bucket seats weren’t out there globally.

These seats can’t be folded ahead, and subsequently wouldn’t make sense in a coupe… except you actually wished to check the agility of your passengers.

VFACTS business gross sales knowledge doesn’t break down Audi mannequin gross sales by way of common, hotter S, and hottest RS variants.

Nonetheless, gross sales figures for the A5 coupe and convertible vary – inclusive of S5 and RS5 fashions – exhibits a complete of simply 78 have been bought throughout the first eight months of this yr.

The A5 Sportback vary – inclusive of S5 and RS5 fashions – has notched 307 gross sales this yr.

Audi has revealed a new-generation A5 which is due right here subsequent yr, nevertheless it’s being provided solely in five-door liftback and five-door wagon physique kinds.

There’s been no phrase of a alternative for at present’s two-door coupe and two-door convertible physique kinds, which seems to point Audi will cede this section to BMW (with its 4 Sequence) and Mercedes-Benz (with its CLE).

Audi’s coupe and convertible lineup was already being thinned.

Manufacturing of the TT coupe and convertible ended final yr and native inventory is drying up, whereas the R8 stopped rolling down the manufacturing facility line this yr.

The supercar was discontinued domestically in 2021, shortly after the A3 Cabriolet exited manufacturing with the changeover to a brand new technology.