2024 Audi S5 Sportback

The federal record for this generation (2018–2021) shows a volatile but generally declining complaint trend—peaking at 26 complaints in 2018, dropping to 6 in 2019, rebounding to 25 in 2020, then falling to just 1 in 2021—while recalls have steadily climbed from 3 to 5 and TSBs have grown consistently from 807 to 954, indicating Audi has been increasingly proactive in addressing issues through service bulletins and federal recalls as the platform matured. Notably, the provided year-by-year record ends at 2021 and does not include full complaint, recall, or TSB counts for the 2024 target year, so it cannot be precisely placed within that arc; however, the limited 2024 data available shows only two complaint areas—Air Bags (1) and Forward Collision Avoidance (1)—with zero crash complaints and zero fire complaints, suggesting a very low early issue rate consistent with the downward trajectory seen by 2021. The data does not specify root causes for any of these complaints. Given that the generation's complaint volume had already collapsed to a single complaint by 2021 and the 2024 model shows minimal, non-safety-critical complaint activity with no crashes or fires reported, the 2024 S5 Sportback appears to benefit from the platform's late-cycle maturity; based on the available federal data, this looks like a solid year to buy, though buyers should verify that any outstanding recalls from the generation's cumulative total have been addressed on the specific vehicle.