Sharp looks can’t hide uninteresting drive of the new Audi A5

Things are not good right now in the German motor industry and last week’s announcement by Audi that they were recalling some 850,000 cars to update the software in Euro 5 and 6 engines, was indicative of how much a mess the likes of Mercedes, Audi and VW find themselves in right now.

VW, we all know to have been riven by the dieselgate scandal, while Mercedes announced recently that they too will be having a recall of every modern diesel they’ve made — about 3m of them. Three million. Yikes.

Just this week, Daimler, VW, BMW and the rest of the German automotive industry promised to update the software of 5m diesels to make them less polluting. The transport ministry will allow them keep these cars on the road.