Audi Car Leasing

Why Lease An Audi?

We all like nice things don’t we? And when it comes to premium automotive brands, Audi is definitely that. Britain is one of Audi’s leading markets, with buyers attracted by the company’s effortlessly cool image. Today, this maker is a key premium part of the Volkswagen Group but the company’s roots go all the way back to 1932 and the foundation of Auto Union, a combination of Auto Union and two other manufacturers, DKW and Wanderer. The Audi brand was relaunched in 1965 when Volkswagen merged with auto union creating the company that we know today.

The Audi range begins with the premium A1 supermini, available in both Sportback and Citycarver forms. Next up is the A3 premium family hatch, just launched in 4th-generation and available as a 5-door Sportback and a saloon. The brand still offers the 3rd generation version of the A3 in Cabriolet form.

One of Audi’s strongest selling models is the medium-sized A4, available as a saloon and in an Avant estate form and recently updated with Audi’s mild hybrid engine technology. Using the same engineering, Audi’s A5 Coupe, A5 Cabriolet and A5 Sportback models have recently been facelifted and also include the mild hybrid tech.

Moving up to Audi’s larger luxury models, the brand’s executive offering is the A6, available either as a saloon or an Avant estate and also lately embellished with mild hybrid technology - tech which also features with the alternative 5-door ‘Gran Turismo’-style A7 Sportback. The largest saloon Audi makes is the A8, which can now be ordered with plug-in technology or in top S8 Sporting form. 

Audi is quickly joining the trend for electrified models. As well as its mild hybrid engines, there are now plug-in TFSIe hybrid versions of the Q5, the A5, the A7 and the A8. And the company’s EV battery electric vehicle range is growing, a line-up launched in 2018 with the e-ton, a model now available in sleeker Sportback form. Audi also still sells its TT sportscar in coupe and roadster guises.

But arguably the most important genre for the Ingolstadt brand is that for SUVs. The range begins with the compact supermini-based Q2, which sits below the slightly more spacious family hatch-based Q3, now available in sleeker Sportback form. Next up is the mid-sized Q5. Audi’s large SUVs are the 7-seat Q7 and the sporting five-seat Q8 model.

Audi has a wide range of sporting variants, badged S or RS. There are S3, S4, S5, S6, S7 and S8 models, plus the SQ2, the SQ5 and the SQ7. The Audi Sport RS badge is reserved for top versions of the TT, the A3, the A5, the S6, the S7 and the Q8.