Highlights High-performance Audi SUV 3.0 V6 diesel (ULEZ) 0-60mph in 5.1 secs 335bhp Full service history Overview In many ways, the performance SUV is the modern equivalent to a hot hatch.

Where upwardly mobile professionals of the 1980s and 1990s aspired to yuppified versions of the era’s most popular hatchbacks, their modern progenies have bought SUVs in their droves, and the aspirational among them have added some souped-up additions.

That’s where the Audi SQ5 Plus sits.

With 335bhp, it’s as spicy as a compact SUV gets, but unlike many of its rivals, the German family bahnstormer delivers its prodigious power (not to mention its 700Nm of torque) to all four of its quattro-equipped wheels via diesel power.

It’s a monumentally punchy car, and one that’s as clinical and as smart as you’d expect an Audi to be.

Plus, if you don’t wind it up too much, then it’ll do 40mpg without too much drama, making it the perfect dual-purpose motor – a practical family car during the working week...