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Audi’s Top-Selling SUV Expected to Be Unsellable in US After Trump Tariffs

Trump Tariffs: Was 90-Day Pause Always Part of The Plan?Photographer: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images
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The Audi Q5 is the German brand’s top-selling vehicle in the US. It’s also a prime example of how Donald Trump’s drastic reordering of global trade is wreaking havoc on automakers.

The president’s tariffs are hitting the $45,400 model thrice, rendering the sport utility vehicle unsellable, according to people familiar with the carmaker’s thinking, who declined to comment on the record.