On June 20, 2025, FAW Audi announced four models of the A5L, including the FAW Audi A5L Full-Domain Intelligent Hybrid quattro, the FAW Audi A5L Pilot Edition, the FAW Audi A5L Sport quattro, and the FAW Audi A5L Sport Plus, meeting users' diverse needs for power forms and chassis tuning. Among them, the Pilot Edition and Sport models are now open for presale. With all-around strength that delivers class-leading luxury and intelligence, the new car will open a new era of luxury fuel vehicles.
As the first model on Audi's all-new PPC luxury fuel intelligent platform, the FAW Audi A5L inherits Audi's 53 years of technical accumulation and aesthetic DNA in the B-segment, featuring an advanced platform architecture, cutting-edge exterior design, leading technological equipment, and a comprehensively evolved powertrain. At the same time, it is also the first fuel vehicle in China equipped with Huawei Qiankun Smart Driving® technology, interpreting an epoch-making intelligent and beautiful sedan with all-around champion strength. Adhering to the design philosophy of "form follows function," the FAW Audi A5L inherits the elegant and dynamic aesthetic DNA of generations of the A5, upholds the design principle of "beauty in use," and greatly enhances practicality with a class-leading wheelbase comparable to a C-segment car, perfectly blending dynamism and elegance, setting a new benchmark in the luxury B+ segment market and reshaping the new landscape of the luxury fuel vehicle market.
FAW Audi A5L: The Pioneer Work of Audi's All-New PPC Luxury Fuel Intelligent Platform
As the culmination of Audi's fuel vehicle technology, Audi's all-new PPC luxury fuel intelligent platform fully empowers fuel vehicles in the era of electrification and intelligence. It adopts Audi's latest E³ 1.2 electronic and electrical architecture, and with high computing power, high scalability, and flexible iteration capability, it provides underlying support for deep integration of combined driving assistance. At the same time, Audi's all-new PPC luxury fuel intelligent platform adopts the fifth-generation EA888 engine, with a peak power of 200kW and rapid, efficient power response, bringing drivers a performance experience that responds instantly. As the pioneer work of the PPC luxury fuel intelligent platform, the FAW Audi A5L, with all-around product strength, fully demonstrates Audi's profound technical heritage and innovative breakthroughs in the field of luxury fuel vehicles, redefines the new value standard for luxury fuel vehicles in the intelligent era, and allows users to enjoy a travel experience as intelligent as that of electric vehicles.
The design philosophy of "form follows function": creating a new trend of luxurious practical aesthetics
With "form follows function" as its design philosophy, the FAW Audi A5L insists on "beauty in use," deeply integrating practical function with design aesthetics to create an intelligent and beautiful sedan that combines German precision craftsmanship with modern luxury style, achieving a dual advancement in aesthetic expression and practical luxury. The FAW Audi A5L was led by Mr. Jakob Hirzel, Audi's global A5 designer, and his design team, and was meticulously crafted after deeply understanding the needs of the Chinese market. It not only inherits the aesthetic DNA of the streamlined body and sharp lines of the overseas Audi A5 Limousine, but also optimizes aerodynamic performance through a class-leading wheelbase, short overhangs, large wheels, and a low-slung stance, achieving a perfect balance between dynamic aesthetics and functional practicality, and continuing to lead the new trend of dynamic aesthetics with a more elegant posture. This ultimate pursuit of "form follows function" is especially prominent in the scoop-shaped cutout design on the hood. Inspired by the black tear lines on a cheetah's face, its ingenious construction combines dynamic aesthetics and practical wisdom, effectively dispersing strong light exposure and improving driving safety and comfort. In addition, the new car also offers 7 pioneering trend colors: Qingcheng Green, Danxia Brown, Jasmine White, Sky Cloud Gray, Flying Gray, Aurora Purple, and Legend Black. Among them, Qingcheng Green and Danxia Brown are exclusive body colors for the Chinese market, fully satisfying users' personalized aesthetic needs.
"People-oriented" interior layout: building a luxurious and comfortable driving and riding space
The wheelbase of the FAW Audi A5L is extended by 77mm compared with the overseas A5 Limousine to 2969mm, and the vehicle length reaches 4908mm, with dimensions approaching those of a European standard-wheelbase C-segment car, giving B-segment users spacious comfort comparable to a C-segment car and further advancing the luxury experience. Adhering to the people-oriented concept, and through dual upgrades in space layout and material craftsmanship, the FAW Audi A5L creates a luxury cockpit that combines a technological atmosphere with a comfortable experience. Especially in the cockpit layout, the "driver-centered" design concept runs throughout, with screen angles and operating logic conforming to ergonomic habits, reducing driving fatigue and improving control focus. The all-new Audi MMI panoramic display consists of an 11.9-inch Audi virtual cockpit and a 14.5-inch panoramic central control screen, together with a 10.9-inch front passenger smart screen, forming a flowing digital stage and creating an immersive intelligent cockpit experience. At the same time, the new car offers a new interior color—Amber Red—awakening elegant aesthetics with blazing red and reconstructing the color philosophy of the luxury cockpit, allowing users to fully enjoy the surging driving passion inspired by color aesthetics.
The "Cloud Sensation Seats" meticulously crafted for Chinese users are deeply optimized based on ergonomics for Chinese body characteristics, providing fitting support at 17 key positions from the backrest to the thighs, making every drive during the journey as comfortable as returning home. At the same time, the cockpit is equipped with a 9-zone intelligent panoramic sunroof and features the only galaxy starry sky roof in its class, bringing occupants an immersive private space that combines intelligent comfort and romantic atmosphere. In addition, through the industry-leading triple silver coating technology, the sunroof achieves 99.9% UV, 99.5% infrared, and 83.8% energy insulation, resisting harsh sunlight and creating a comfortable space around the clock, satisfying users' ultimate imagination of a luxury sedan.
The safety philosophy of a "century-old automotive expert": building all-scenario three-dimensional safety protection
The FAW Audi A5L adheres to a century-old safety car-making philosophy and builds a mobile safety fortress with all-around protection. Relying on German precision heritage, the body adopts a golden combination of hot-formed steel + ultra-high-strength aluminum alloy, creating a submarine-grade cage-type safety body capable of withstanding 6.04 times its own weight, building "steel-and-iron" safety protection. On top of this, the FAW Audi A5L provides dual front airbags, front side airbags, a center airbag, front and rear head safety curtains, and rear side airbags (optional), totaling 9 airbags, precisely covering the vulnerable body parts of front and rear occupants and responding instantly upon impact with flexible protection. More notably, it is also equipped with the class-exclusive "one-pull dual-use" electromechanical dual-insurance semi-hidden door handle, adopting a mechanical + electronic dual-system control design. In daily use, the electronic control system provides a convenient experience of opening with a light touch; in extreme environments, the mechanical system ensures reliable opening, greatly improving safety in emergency situations.
At the same time, the FAW Audi A5L adopts a dual-guarantee visual perception solution, safeguarding travel safety with all-scenario environmental perception and risk prediction capabilities. The new car is equipped with the industry-first light-domain aesthetic smart OLED taillights, actively warning rear vehicles through car-to-x communication and interaction with the surrounding environment, reducing the risk of rear-end collisions. From the hardcore protection of the body structure to the active warning of the intelligent system, the FAW Audi A5L builds a solid foundation for luxury quality with all-scenario, all-dimensional safety protection, interpreting the brand philosophy of "safety first" and bringing users a more reassuring luxury driving and riding experience.
After the FAW Audi A5L goes on the market, with a product form that balances aesthetics and practicality, it will precisely meet users' vehicle needs and form the core "3, 4, 5, 6" domestic luxury fuel sedan matrix together with the A3, A4L, and A6L, comprehensively covering the A-segment, B-segment, B+ segment, and C-segment luxury car markets. At the same time, FAW Audi will also introduce the overseas A5 family, satisfying consumers' increasingly personalized and diversified needs with the authentic full Audi A5 matrix, comprehensively strengthening the competitive barrier in the luxury fuel vehicle market, and reshaping the new landscape of luxury fuel mobility with a breakthrough momentum.
Five exclusive presale privileges, inaugurating a new realm of intelligent and beautiful luxury
With all-around strength, FAW Audi sincerely launches five exclusive privileges: a deposit expansion privilege, an equipment upgrade privilege, an exclusive priority privilege, an old friends benefit privilege, and a worry-free travel privilege, providing users with the ultimate experience of a B+ luxury sport sedan through class-leading luxury intelligent product strength and exclusive luxury value.
