With the covers barely off the much-anticipated Audi Q7 sports utility vehicle and the new Audi TT Coupe, Audi has announced three more new vehicles.

The new Audi Q5 a medium-sized SUV will be built in Germany. The new model will start production at Ingolstadt in 2008. The Audi Q5 will join the Audi Q7 as the Audi brand's second model in the sport utility vehicle segment.

Audi's board chairman Prof Dr Martin Winterkorn, said: "The Audi Q5 will be an overtly sporty vehicle that will add an important product to the Audi model range. The Audi Q5 will take us a big step closer to vehicle sales of 1.4 million per year, a target that we have set ourselves for 2015."

He also said the new Audi S3, a three-door model with a sporty engine which will be hitting showrooms in the second half of 2006 and disclosed that the Audi A5 Coupe would join the Audi model line-up, to be launched in the first half of 2007.