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meet the newest addition to the family my 2011 Audi s5 it is sporting a 354 horsepower v8 engine are a tronic six-speed automatic transmission and an optional sport differential for added fun in the corners so that won't do me much good in the city now before I say anything else I was not going to purchase a 6-speed manual not only are they difficult to find but they're a major pain to drive in dense cities like mine was to be you drive stick know that I'll trade raw mechanics for ease of use any day of the week especially for a car like this but of course your preferences may differ from mine I want to apologize for the wind I know that's really rough on you guys I do apologize for that but I bought an Audi s5 2011 v8 4.2 liter and it's fitted with pretty much everything you can want in the car it's not the prestige model which is like the highest end model that you could get a V S 5 and the time but it does have all the extra things that if prestige would have apart from push-to-start which is kind of weird the guy I bought the Premium Plus model and then you put everything that the prestige has in it in it except for push-to-start so I wonder how much that cost at the time but this is my car it has about 67,000 miles on it I just bought it I'm not leasing it do anything weird obviously it's a used car so I kind of had no choice but to buy it but there are a few things that I do want to show you that I'm not going to talk about in the original audio overlay because know you kinda have to see some of these things to really get the idea across so let's take a tour no joke I think this is one of the best-looking sport coupes and money can buy but it also isn't too flashy to where it draws too much unwanted attention speaking of which I paid less than you probably think before I reveal the figure though consider this it's a six year old car with around 67,000 miles even hit a deer at one point in its life somewhere in New Jersey I mean check it out the CARFAX literally says it hit a deer there's a first time for everything so the price I paid was exactly twenty-two thousand seven hundred and sixty US dollars excluding tax title and license I'll be registering the car in Florida however I purchased the car here in Lafayette Louisiana at the local outtie dealer excellent folks over there by the way you should check them out if you're in the market soafter TTL I'll be looking at around twenty-five thousand dollars at a pocket if I do say so myself I certainly could have gotten one for cheaper but at the expense of additional mileage and these cars aren't the friendliest to repair howdy parts are in general expensive so we'll see how long I can go with this one before I get a shell out more cash off to the side you'll find custom accented mirrors power everything by the way VA badges on the left and right panels and single driver passenger doors this is a coupe after all this is the meteor gray color from Audi by the way I like its hint of blue not too flashy but not the typical white black or grey either now these are not soccer rims these are Hartman rims and I can see why the previous owner chose these if you're not aware the rs5 features the five-spoke I believe 20-inch rims these are only 19 but I'm not going to bother wasting extra money to increase the size by an inch I think they look perfectly fine the way they are in fact this is one of the only like non-stock rim kits that I would have applied to this car and I like the fact that the previous owner went with the rs5 design now this is the stock s5 grille but seeing as though the previous underside do with the rs5 rims I think what I'm going to do is swap this grille with the rs5 grille which is actually more like a mesh design there isn't this ugly front license plate holder there I mean this is this is all just disgusting so I think I'm going to replace this whole thing it's not the Alli badge and it does still have the s5 badge but it'll just be a mesh grille and civic I think will make this car look a bit more aggressive now one of the key physical differences between the s5 and something I'm sure you've seen quite a bit on the road the Audi a5 is the quad exhaust system that's just a split h pipe so you have two exhaust ports on each side and that's just the result of having a v8 now the v6 supercharged engine and the 2013 and up models do the exact same thing but other than just looking at the badge this is one of the ways you can tell whether or not you're sporting an s5 or an a5 the taillights are stylish and unique the dual exhaust tips on either side give it a subdued gtfo appeal and the subtle badges keep it on the deal for anyone who isn't an Audi enthusiast I mean you wouldn't think much of this car just driving behind it even though it is sporting a solid v8 engine with sports trim and a mean growl but that's what I enjoy most about this car apart from the inconsiderate pricks who recklessly disregard any in all cars next to which they park you we'll have any problem with unwarranted attention and looky-loos it's just a sports coupe no different than a BMW 335i or even a Chevy Camaro SS in that regard though I wouldn't trade this interior for any other one of the cool things about this car that I did not know when I was inquiring about the s5 is how much trunk space it has this has got to be one of the largest trunks and a coupe that I've ever seen and it goes way back here it just keeps going further and further back let's see if I can get it in I'm actually gonna try to get in there oh yeah yeah we could definitely make this work oh this is a subwoofer right here yeah there's room for about three people so if you're a kidnapper this is the car for you I'm not endorsing that statement but just matter of fact now one of the key features about this particular model that I really like that maybe you want to buy this car we're the red leather seats now you can get these seats in a variety of colors you can get the white ones the black ones even like the kind of burgundy orange color but this is just the straight-up red leather and I know that's a bit exotic and a bit ostentatious in most cases but for a car like this I think that it just makes the interior pop brings everything to life and just all on all makes me enjoy driving in the car a bit more than just regular black leather seats what it sounds a bit gaudy but trust me in person these look pretty cool the prominent s5 floor badge gives way to a crazy cool interior that's sure to impress even other Audi owners red leather seats complimentary carbon fiber trim Audis trademark MMI interface and driver position two navigation system I think is pretty cool check this out I was actually programming my voice so that the system would recognize me when I was talking over a bunch of others in the car 2 3 1 4 2 3 1 4 navigate the John Smith navigate to John Smith 9 0 2 3 9 0 2 3 a few things I'm thinking about changing I might swap a steering wheel for the flat bottom 2013 steering wheel just because this one's a bit bulkier not as appealing in that sense and I might change the shifter as well and you can't see it I'm inside because the wind is terrible outside but that shift lever there is kind of just bland I think I might upgrade that to the 2013 model as well a weird core about this car the fact that the sunroof isn't really a sunroof it's actually more like a moonroof and the backend of it just kind of lifts up for extra ventilation I guess that's the only function there because of the XM satellite radio antenna whatever this is back to your radio antenna you can't slide the glass back like the newer models can I think that's the excuse that Audi was using at the time so we're stuck with just this one inch of clearance here now one of the only issues this car I had when I bought it was the hood lever is just dead there's no way to keep this cropped up there is no just mechanical lever that you can use to keep the hood open so if I want a cleaning engine which it clearly has not been cleaned in several several months I have to have somebody hold the hood open or I can try to do it like this but that's really awkward so I get that baby back to outies quattro technology for a second as someone who's driven GTRs and r8 on many occasions this feeling is really no different the pool is almost instantaneous wait a minute does an olive trap system pull or push you or both well most of the power is sent to the rear wheel so let's say push this s5 is packing nearly as much torque as it is horse powering can propel you from 0 to 60 in roughly 5 seconds flat with the automatic transmission a little under 5 if you want to sound really cool 4.9 for whatever intentional launches are insanely fast but the added weight from Audi's Quattro system definitely slows or down at higher speeds nonetheless it's a thrill to drive pretty much anywhere man I'm always trying to catch the next red light now I'm going to attempt to get into the back seats I know that it's possible but it's a difficult process there are ways where I can get to the position he's get to all right and over got to keep going let's see that is far forward is that seat rolls wow they are not they're not concerned about large people getting into the back of these cars oh it's actually quite roomy and the reason for that is because the car isn't just like a steady slope to the trunk it actually has kind of like an uplifted back end and you can see that from like a side shot of the car so it actually gives you a bit more Headroom than you might expect my head you know isn't hitting the ceiling I got about three three or so inches so if you're about six 162 that might be the upper limit of compatibility for backseat writing anyway Wow getting out is just as difficult getting in I'm serious though if you weigh like around 200 pounds good luck fitting between these I can't believe it doesn't rolling more forward than that I'm finding new things about my car even in this video when I first saw this car on cars calm I did not realize it was right down the road for me I have 500 mile radius turned on literally a 10 minute drive to the local addi dealer which was actually just built a few years ago I don't know what to call that that sounds like fate to me there aren't any dealers in the Panama City area though so any official maintenance will have to be done in Mobile Alabama that's you know three hour drive let's hope and pray that a trip like that isn't warranted any time soon so you know the routine thumbs-up thumbs-down subscribe if you haven't already and tell me in the comments what you think i should name her this is salazar studio thanks for driving with us you