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Audi Q5 vs Honda Accord

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Audi Q5
Audi Q5

$73,400 - $113,984

2025 price

Honda Accord
Honda Accord

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Summary

2025 Audi Q5
2024 Honda Accord
Safety Rating

Engine Type
Diesel Turbo 4, 2.0L

Inline 4, 2.0L
Fuel Type
Diesel

Premium Unleaded/Electric
Fuel Efficiency
4.8L/100km (combined)

4.3L/100km (combined)
Seating
5

5
Dislikes
  • Noisy diesel
  • Annoying safety systems
  • Screens a little large

  • Missing a few features for price tag
  • Cabin is nice but plain
  • Multimedia system needs an overhaul
2025 Audi Q5 Summary

So EV evangelist Audi is still making a range of Q5s with engines in them? New ones?

Yes, it is confusing, isn’t it? When Audi said they’d like us to fly to Spain to drive its new Q5, I was still digesting the fact that its sexier sister brand - Porsche’s Macan - had gone all-in on electricity. And wasn’t Audi one of the early adopter, all-EV trailblazer brands? Surely the new Q6 EV was the car they were talking about?

But no, all of these new Q5s would have engines - a 2.0-litre petrol, a 2.0-litre TDI diesel and, praise be, a howling, growling 3.0-litre V6 petrol one in the SQ5 - and none of them are even PHEVs (the initial launch phase are all mild hybrid electric vehicles or MHEVs, the PHEV variants will launch in the second half of 2025).

Furthermore, this new and yet old-school Q5 was built on an all-new PPC platform (Premium Platform Combustion), which will be shared by the whole Volkswagen group and which, very strong rumour has it, Porsche is now desperately trying to get its hands on to reverse engineer a Macan variant that more people might like to buy.

So does that make this new offering the SUV the new Macan should have been, or just the Q5 you didn’t expect Audi to be making at all? Either way, it’s quite likely to be the last of its kind, so there was quite a lot to be curious about as we jetted off to Malaga to check it out.

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2024 Honda Accord Summary

The Honda Accord is now in its 11th generation and there was a time when the Accord, and rivals like the Skoda Superb and Toyota Camry were the perfect family cars.

But if you head to a car park, it's obvious they're no longer the choice when it comes to family hauling.

We’re family testing the new Accord, now offered in one highly-specified variant, to see if its new hybrid powertrain and design are worth a look in a world where the SUV is king.

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