We’ve always recognised the AS5 as being one of the sexiest coupes on the scene, but now it’s just got a whole lot hotter thanks to top German tuners Abt.

Lifting the bonnet first, Abt has turned up the heat on the original 245bhp 3.0-litre diesel, transforming it into a torquey 300bhp firecracker, while the 2.0 TFSI has had a power hike from 211bhp to 270bhp, with tweaks to other engine variants in the range promised later. To cope with the extra oomph, Abt has dropped it closer to terra firma and added its trademark front spoiler, side skirts and wing embellishers, while at the rear there’s a rear skirt insert, rear spoiler and distinctive four-exit exhaust.

To complete its totally cool as hell visage, Abt recommend its CR Silverlight or DR alloys in 19 or 20in measure.
Said Abt’s MD Hans-Jüren: “For us, it was important to combine this car’s extraordinary design with our ideas and thus to underscore the car’s character. Its increased performance and its body parts form a unit. If you look at the AS5, you want to take in every inch of its marvellous silhouette, and if you sit in it, all you want is to get it on the road. This coupé is really a power pack.“