Audi S5 LED Rear Lamps & 3G MMI Coming Soon

Lol, the Audi interior is considered the best in the luxury cars class. What do you consider beautiful if this interior is ugly?

I bet you love Pontiac interiors!

At least LEDs have a useful purpose (if they would stop squandering it). Quicker illumination, extremely long life, and easier packaging for styling flexibility and space saving. Couldn't agree with you more about the Big Face Syndrome that still pervades in the industry. I mean, look at the grinning Mazda3, ghastly Acuras in the US, and silly Peugeot mugs. Funny thing is that modern lighting and cooling technology means neither the lamps nor the air intake have to be very large at all. It's just overwrought styling and car designers desperate to establish "design language" for a brand. Ironically, most of them end up making their brand's cars look more like everyone else. I used to be able to recognize an Audi just fine without a grille the size of Belgium.

Its very hard for design departments to make "small faces" when the vehicle front has to be tall and blunt to meet pedestrian crash standards. If the styling was more reserved, it wouldn't hide the recent increases in frontal area. Also, as panel stamping and molding technology gets more intricate expect this to get worse before it gets better.

With all due respect, that would only make sense if every new car on the road had a gapingly huge grille. But they don't. It's just a styling trend.

Ahh, but they do. Compare all recent front-ends to the generations before them and the difference is noticeable. Some companies pull it off better than others, but all have increased drastically in the latest vehicle generations. For example, look at the last three generations of 7-series (E38-F01). Audi is the only one with the single frame grille, but all manufacturers styling cues have become exaggerated. I cant think of any that haven't (save the 911).

This article is about updates on the S5, not a blaring announcement about how Audi debuted rear LEDs. What's wrong with putting LEDs and a new MMI system on a premium car that costs over 50K. It would make more sense than to use conventional bulbs and an outdated Navigation System. We understand that you are a BMW fanatic. Now don't make it your duty to go to every single article about an Audi and blindly find fault at everything. It just makes you look more ret@rded than you have already proved yourself to be. And it wasn't even Audi who put up this article. WCF chose to put it up so on its website if you don't like it then go b1tch at WCF, not rant about how much you dislike Audi. And wasn't it you who said you liked the S5 and the R8, but didn't like the rest of the lineup? Funny, because now you're referring to the S5 as sh!t. Kid, seems as if you have serious problems. Go resolve them on your own instead of venting them out at a car forum.