August 4 is a date that will be noted in Audi’s calendar, as the brand with the Four Rings has celebrated a production milestone – the one-millionth Q5 built at the company’s main plant, in Ingolstadt.
Finished in Sepang blue and waiting to be delivered to a German family, the milestone vehicle is an SQ5.
This comes eight years after the model’s official market launch and during this time, the Audi Q5 became an international success and can now be seen on the roads of more than 100 countries.
“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 Ingolstadt’s plant Director, Albert Mayer, who was joined at the ceremony by Chairman of the brand’s General Works Council, Peter Mosch, and by the A4, A5 and Q5 production employees.
Since Audi’s Q5 is also a top-seller in China and India, where it is manufactured for the local markets, deliveries of the SUV worldwide sit at nearly 1.6 million examples, and in 2015 alone, the automaker handed over a total of 266,968 units globally, up 8 percent compared to the year before.
Audi’s second Q-model, after the Q7, “continues to be the bestselling premium SUV in its segment”, as the company states, and in the first half of 2016, the vehicle’s sales increased by 4.7 percent.
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