Welcome to Tech in the Car! I am Oliver and this is the Audi SQ2. Now there's a valid
question to be asked here is there a place in today's car market for a small sporty suv
is it worth getting should it exist and is this a good car in this video i'm going to try and answer
those questions now the Q2 started off in 2016 and then you've got the sporty version the SQ2 which
is available in three different trims the SQ2 the black edition and the vorsprung which is what
this is this car starts at 48 250 pounds on the road for the raw spring edition the SQ2 has
300 horsepower from its 2-liter four-cylinder engine 400 newton meters of torque and can do
0-62 miles an hour in 4.9 seconds and it's got a combined mpg of around 33.9
miles per gallon so pretty good efficiency for car which has got a lot of power a lot of torque and
is really really fast as well so that's impressive what makes a wall spring different from the other
trim levels well there's a few things first of all this car has these fantastic 19-inch
five double spoke audi sport wheels i've never seen an audi with white wheels like that which
hasn't been from the aftermarket so this is really really interesting to see and then we've got all
black badges all over this car another sign of all spring is when you have black badges on the front
and we've also got a decal down the side here which is very very interesting which says quattro
because this is of course a quattro four wheel drive car this car also has a panoramic sunroof
also part of the vorsprung pack and then we've got obviously the blacked out wing mirrors we've got
full matrix led lights we've got all the audi assistance features including driver
assist lack of lane assist cruise control everything's on here automatic parking as well
everything everything so this car has got all the latest safety technology let's have a little
bit more some of the details of the design though telltale signs of the voice sprung are the matrix
led headlights the blacked out grille and you can see these have the split daytime running lights
down here and they have dynamic turn signals where they sweep from left to right one obvious sign of
a expensive audi and this car big intakes this is really interesting the grille here has got massive
holes i can literally fit my hand between them i can actually even touch the radiator i don't
recommend anyone does that but i can do i haven't seen any other houses that such large holes
in the grill but it's blacked out we've got the adapter cruise control sensors down there very
very nice the only option on this car is this tango red paint which is 575 pounds but other
than that everything else is standard on this top of the range for spring model i really like tango
red it looks really great with a contrasting black on the trim and it's really stand out and when we
get inside you can also see that red color carried over into some of the interior design features
such as the ambient lighting which is very very cool what about the rear design of the SQ2 well
being the vorstrom we've got our black badges the audi badges the SQ2 badge i look really like the
hue there and it looks very cool we've got this obviously really nice spoiler which comes on the
SQ2 which isn't on the standard Q2 and then down here we have our diffuser what makes an S Audi
or an RS Audi is the tailpipe so we've got our quad round tail pipes here which you get on the
s model audis and then the rs you've got the big round oval double tail pipe so that one makes them
different you go through that little diffuser here now obviously this is a hatchback being an suv
and it has an automatic tailgate and i do love an automatic tailgate we have 355 liters of
space here plus you can put down the back seats as well there is some space underneath the floor
here but really it's not very much a subwoofer takes it up it's a tiny bit of space i'm not
sure i would use that as storage we've got hooks and tether points back here as well and you can
put down the back seat we've got the 60/40 design here you put it flat there's a lot of space here
and you can fit loads of stuff over there there are a thousand liters with the back seats down
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car to see what it's worth here in the back of the SQ2 you can see that it's fairly spacious
i've got enough space as a adult about 178 centimeters tall i've got a bit of head space here
and i've got a bit of near space now the thing with the knee space here is this is in the driving
position and you can see actually there isn't an awful lot of space here on this side there'd be
more space so i do think that it might be a bit cramped for big adults in the back of this car
it is a small suv and you can definitely feel that in the back here in terms of comfort and
quality these seats feel really comfortable these are leather in this high trim of the SQ2
we've got little pockets here we've got a 12 volt so you can plug in your phone if you have a usb
12 volt charger converter we got some lights and you know quite wide open windows here where you
can get good light invisibly through and plus this panoramic gloss sunroof does add some more light
into the back here these seats will fall down as well as you'll see when we look in the back of
the car overall it's fine back here obviously if you need more space maybe you want to go
for a Q3 in the audi range instead of the Q2 here inside the SQ2 it's like audi combine the best
of the previous generation and the best of the new generation to make this car the interior is
very similar to previous generation A3 we've got these round vents which are very very familiar
we've got the same design dashboard however there are some differences these inlays are backlit and
say quattro in them in red on this car and then we've got the same design of the infotainment
system in terms of the screen although it doesn't go up and down like on the previous generation A3
we've got the same design climate control we've got a similar design center console with a scroll
wheel it's slightly slimmer on this car but it's very very similar and then we've got our
round steering wheel so this is exactly like how the new generation cars we've got on hexagonal
airbag we've got the double metal spokes and it's fully round audi won't seem to offer any more a
flat bottom steering wheel with cars that have the driver assistance packs and this car does
have it all adapter cruise control lane assist automatic parking it has all the latest technology
and then one other thing which is the same as a previous generation in front of me is a virtual
cockpit it's got the same round tachometer which shows you the speed and the gears in a central
position which lots of people miss on the new style cars for me personally it doesn't really
bother me but i do like this is a very nice design it's a shame it's an option on the new
cars as well in terms of the seats these seats are harder than i would expect they are still leather
they are still comfortable but they're harder than other seats i've sat in in other Audi’s
they're manual they don't have five support but they do have electric lumbar control so
you can adjust the lumbar control everything else is manual we've got a cubby hole in the
middle here where you can store stuff there's one USB underneath the central infotainment screen
and a 12 volt and then there's another usb in the middle here as well as an auxiliary input the door
design is a lot more fancy than new generation cars it's got a glossy design it's very attractive
makes you see that i already spent time putting attention into the design here which maybe has
been missing for the newer generation cars we also have a sono sound system audio started rebranding
their bang and all of sun systems to sonos doesn't sound any different to bang and olive system but
people i think maybe think sonos is more well known than bang olufsen and so they'd rather
brand it with that and there was about 8 open hatch at the back overall really nice interior
very comfortable but does it drive as sportily as it looks and does it feel sitting in this car
let's take it for drive and find out at the start of this video i asked the question is there space
for the sq2 very sporty luxury hatchback which is what this is as far as audi are concerned
that is a small hatchback is a space for one in today's market does it make sense is it worth
having and is this car a good car to have well let's first of all talk about
the driving experience what this is like to drive so right now i've got this in
efficiency mode and in efficiency mode designed to maximize obviously the miles per gallon and
the efficiency it feels like every car in efficiency mode a bit slow to respond
a bit hesitant you know i've never liked the car in efficiency mode i think the efficiency mode
really should only be used on motorways when you're sitting in traffic if we go to comfort
and we're going to have these speed bumps now this car is obviously risen it's higher than the
a3 which is the platform that it's based on and how does it feel now i mean if i'm honest with you
it's okay it's comfortable but there's an irony that the suspension on the new audi rs3 which is
the sporty fast rs car is actually better than this i feel like
this car just suspension is just a tiny bit too firm now this could be a result of the sq2
being the most sporty version on the q2 it might be slightly better
but on here it's just a bit hard again it's fine you can see i'm not being thrown around the car
as i'm driving along it's just it's just not as comfortable as i would expect from a car that sits
higher up when going over bumps in the road now if we go into auto i think auto is a sweet spot
it will speed up with quicker response when you go faster and it will slow down
when you're doing be more efficient and then we go to dynamics so if we go into dynamic immediately
you can hear the valves open up on the exhaust and so now we've got the performance mode of this car
of the SQ2 you can feel that this car has the desire to pounce to take off to give you that
extra speed to give you that full 300 horsepower and that 400 newton meters of torque you can
definitely feel that in this mode even though i'm coming along to 20 mile an hour speed limit camera
so i'm definitely not using it but you can hear kind of the deep rumbling coming from the back
and i don't think there's much noise pumped into the car here i think it's very very
slight if at all any and this is really where you've got a car which is great for overtaking
great for that extra boost you need and for that more fun playful drive which you want you know i
put my phone down a tiny bit here and i can hear some noise it feels a lot better you know you've
got 300 horsepower and that's more than 90 of the cars on the road and you've got an suv and you've
got that space in the back which you wouldn't get from other cars so you've got some big advantages
going here which you don't get with other vehicles and other cars and that is a really good thing now
if we move it now into our next mode which is individual now individual allows you to adjust
what you want it to be so you can adjust the gearbox to be auto you can adjust the steering
to be comfort and dynamic auto for all of these and the same with the sound as well
we can adjust the sound to be comfort auto and dynamic and they need that to cruise
control as well so individual let's you get the best of both maybe you want the
more comfortable suspension setting but you want a bit more performance from the car but i
think auto is the sweet spot with this car now toured driver assistants this car has it all
i'm sitting in traffic now i can turn on the lane assist and adapt to cruise control it will turn on
here now there are no lane markings here so it's not going to keep me in the lane but the adaptive
cruise control will keep me the distance from the firefront just like i want and i'm safe and it's
actually got very good lane assist as well if i was on a road where there were lanes where i could
demonstrate it then you'd be able to see it works really well as well on par with the new
generation cars from audi so let's go back to that original question is there a place for this car
in the market now for a small sporty suv well the volkswagen and audi seem to decide the answer
is no as they've announced they're going to stop production on the Q2 range going forwards shortly
so if you want a Q2 and SQ2 this is the time to get it because it will no longer be around
they've said that the reason why is they think that the market is for larger suvs and you
know if you go up just a tiny bit to the Q3 you then get the rs q3 which has got the character
of that five-cylinder engine plus a bit more space a bit more room and a bit more comfort
and you know that is probably what you want now if you're after a small suv which has
got that performance it absolutely you should get this car but if you want a bit more space
and you want a bit more performance then the Q3 is probably the way to go so what's my verdict
on this the Audi SQ2 well i think it's a great looking car it's a fast car it's a sporty car
it's an suv and if you're looking for a small suv then it's definitely the car for you to
check out my tech in the car score reflects that it's got the latest technology it's comfortable
park itself it can do pretty much everything you can want in a car and i think it's really
great value for what it is especially if you look at it starting in the Q2 line
going up to the SQ2 you got a lot of choice a lot of variety please give this video a
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