Used test: Audi Q5 vs Jaguar F-Pace costs

Buying and owning

Costs, equipment, reliability, safety and security

After two years on the used car market, the Audi Q5 has landed at around £36,000 and the Jaguar F-Pace at around £38,000. Both cars have depreciated by a similar amount in the first two years and we'd expect them to carry on having similar residual values as they age further. 

Both cars return a solid 37mpg in varied real-world driving, not to mention you’ll see 40mpg or more from either if you spend most of your time on the motorway. 

To insure, the F-Pace should turn out cheaper. Its insurance group of 28 puts costs at around £765, while the Q5's group 35 means it should set you back around £903. 

For £672, you can get two services of the Q5 through Audi. We were quoted £967 for two services of the F-Pace via Jaguar. 

Things are close in the equipment stakes. The Q5 may miss out on the F-Pace’s full leather upholstery and electric seat adjustment (its seats are half-leather), but it makes amends with adaptive LED headlights (these can automatically shape their beams to avoid dazzling other road users) and three-zone climate control that enables you to control the temperature in the back separately to that in the front. The F-Pace has non-adaptive LED lights and two-zone climate control.

The Q5 required its original owner to add the £1395 Comfort and Sound Pack if you want keyless entry, although you also gain a surround-view parking camera, a Bang & Olufsen sound system, extended interior ambient lighting and a handsfree tailgate that opens when you wave your foot below the bumper. Keyless entry was a £555 option on the F-Pace when new, while a surround-view parking camera came as standard.

In our 2022 What Car? Reliability Survey, the Q5 (in diesel form) ranked 23rd out of 32 cars in the large SUV class. The F-Pace came 15th. As brands, Audi ranked 21st out of 32 manufacturers, besting Jaguar in 26th. 

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