MotorMouths

The Audi Q5 will make you look for longer routes home — though it may not take you any more time to drive them. You’ll just arrive with a bigger smile on your face.

The Audi Q5 combines sportiness, luxury, and all-round driveability in a good-looking package that I expect will age with grace.

The Audi Q5 has managed to separate itself from its competitors with its gorgeous looks inside out, its sporty yet well-composed driving capabilities and the host of luxury features.

The Q5 broke my heart and left me crying on the side of the road, but not through any fault of its own. It’s only because the people at Audi wouldn’t let me keep it.

The Audi Q5 is simply the best driving crossover in its class, and Audi has put it all together with its typical careful execution. It’s the segment’s ringer if you can afford it.

Audi has paid attention to every detail in the 2009 Q5. This CUV succeeds where so many crossovers have failed – it actually drives like well-toned midsize sedan.

The Audi Q5 is the most compelling small luxury crossover I’ve driven. It lets owners feel they’re making a purely rational choice even as they spend a bit more.

The Q5 is Audi’s compact crossover, the little brother to Audi’s Q7. Unless you need three rows of seating or beaucoup cargo space, the Q5 has everything a family could want.

The 2009 Audi Q5 Premium Quattro dances uphill in the rain, tiptoes lightly through the fog, that literally feels the road regardless of precipitation.

The Audi Q5 separates itself from the other German offerings by being much more user friendly and comfort oriented. It pampers you with a well dampened ride and still manages to hold up under hard driving.

The Q5 weighs over two tons, but so do its main rivals. Unlike some of them, however, the Audi manages to feel solid rather than heavy. It manages to mix-and-match luxury, safety, performance and style in a combination that leaves it wanting for… really, nothing.

We came away very impressed by the 2009 Audi Q5. It clearly has surpassed the aging BMW X3 in terms of exterior styling, interior ambience, drivability, and comfort.