{"id":4576,"date":"2025-08-17T09:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T09:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/4576\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T09:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T09:27:09","slug":"audi-q5-suv-e-hybrid-has-its-limits-but-is-ageing-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/4576\/","title":{"rendered":"Audi Q5 SUV e-hybrid has its limits but is ageing well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nEveryday comfort and capability gets the premium treatment, and even if the perks can be a bit too much, the overall improvements may make up for it\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Geraldine Herbert test drives the Audi Q5 TDI Q S Line 204PS. Photo: Paul Herbert-Kane\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/f66db842-29e0-4c5a-9e66-b6a0f2f14077.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Geraldine Herbert test drives the Audi Q5 TDI Q S Line 204PS. Photo: Paul Herbert-Kane<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Audi Q5 first rolled onto Irish roads in 2008, with confidence and a premium SUV swagger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Coincidentally, it was the very same year the first of my teenagers made their debut, albeit with more noise and fewer driver-assist features. Seventeen years on, and one has evolved through multiple sleek upgrades, while the other thinks emptying the dishwasher is a violation of the Geneva Conventions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everyday comfort and capability gets the premium treatment, and even if the perks can be a bit too&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,4942,19,17,4746],"class_list":{"0":"post-4576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-geraldine-herbert","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-life-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}