Audi brings new finishing touches to the Q2

Audi has revised its Q2 crossover, allowing the car to showcase its progressive character even more clearly.

The new Q2 has grown a few millimetres longer, and now measures 4,210mm, while its width (1,790mm) and height (1,540mm) have remained the same.

Audi's designers have now applied the motif of the polygon, which already characterised the front and shoulder line, to the rear end of the facelifted car. The bumper thus now has an integrated diffuser insert with large five-sided polygons.

The front has also been modified, with the surfaces below the head lights emerging in a more striking manner. The octagonal Singleframe grille is now slightly lower, making the front section appear wider, while its insert also interprets the polygon motif.

The advanced and S line equipment lines also now feature narrow slits between the radiator grille and the hood that are reminiscent of the Audi Sport quattro, an icon of the brand. The large implied air inlets also appear even more expressive, especially in the S line.

LED head lights now come as standard in the Audi Q2, and Matrix LED head lights are available as an option. Seven individual LEDs seated in a shared module produce an intelligently controlled high beam light.

The colour palette of the compact SUV contains five new colours - Apple Green is celebrating its premiere with Audi, and Manhattan Gray, Navarra Blue, Arrow Grey, and Turbo Blue are new with the Q2.

The blades on the C-pillars are painted in vehicle colour or kept in black, gray, and silver shades, depending on the equipment line.

There is a choice of three versions for the attachments in the lower section of the body - Pitted Black in the basic version, Manhattan Gray in the advanced line, and vehicle colour in the S line.

On the interior, the air vents and the gear lever knob, or selector lever of the S tronic, have a new look. Q2 customers can order the S line interior instead of the basic variant, and both interior versions can be combined freely with the three exterior variants.

With the optional ambient lighting package plus, the trim strip on the instrument panel and the knee pads on the center console feature elegant backlighting.

The new car also gets a new suite of infotainment options ranging from the analog instrument cluster and the MMI radio plus with DAB+ to the Audi virtual cockpit with a 12.3-inch diagonal and MMI navigation plus with an 8.3-inch display.

The revised Audi Q2 is currently being launched in Germany with a turbocharged 1.5-litre TFSI engine delivering 148bhp and 250Nm of torque. The engine also comes with cylinder on demand technology, allowing it to temporarily deactivate the second and third cylinders at low loads and engine speeds.