One million Audi Q5s

Audi’s award-winning mid-sized SUV the Q5, has reached a production milestone with the one-millionth vehicle coming off the production line at Audi’s headquarters in Ingolstadt. In fact, the number of Audi Q5s on the roads of the world is much greater than one million, given that the brand also specifically manufactures the Q5 in China and India for those countries’ domestic markets.

The dynamic Q5 can be seen on the roads of more than 100 countries around the world, and when coupled with the markets in China and India, the figure stands around 1.6 million.

Australia has embraced the Q5 since its first introduction, with sales of the mid-sized SUV rivalling and at times passing those of the ever popular Audi A4. That combination of size and drivability across a range of applications and road surfaces proving tremendously popular Down Under.

The one-millionth Q5 to emerge from the Ingolstadt plant was in fact an SQ5 5 performance model,  destined for a family in Germany, another tremendous success story and the fastest diesel-powered SUV in the world when the model was first launched in 2012.

“The Audi Q5 is a genuine guarantee of success for us. For that reason, I am very proud that we have created a worldwide crowd puller with this SUV model from the main plant in Ingolstadt. One million Audi Q5 cars – that is due to the outstanding performance of our production team. We achieved it with great effort and commitment,” said Albert Mayer, Plant Director at the Audi site in Ingolstadt as the Sepang Blue SQ5 was completed.

This production milestone will no doubt not last long given the tremendous popularity of the Q5 around the globe. Audi produced and handed over just shy of 270,000 Q5 models last year – a figure that was well up on 2014.

The best-selling premium SUV in its segment in numerous markets around the globe, demand for the Q5 was up nearly five percent in the first half of this year alone. The addition of performance models such as the Audi SQ5 and SQ5 plus – the latter launched in Australia at the start of the year – have only seen that demand grow.

Future production of the Q5 is set to increase at an even greater pace, with the new plant in Mexico – which is mentored by the Ingolstadt plant – set to see the first Audi Q5 drive off the production line in San José Chiapa late next month.