Audi explained it truly is targeting a whole new market place segment using the 2011 Audi A7, that is a comparatively big five-passenger product measuring 197.7 inches extended – about an inch as well as a fifty percent shorter than Audi’s massive A8 flagship sedan. Audi didn’t offer powertrain facts, apart from to say the base engine will be a 201-horsepower 3.0-liter TDI. Driving the entrance wheels via a Multitronic constantly variable automated transmission, the 3.0 TDI returns a regular 44 mpg within the European mixed cycle. A sport differential is definitely an extra-cost alternative around the 2011 Audi A7 Quattro.
2011 Audi A7 Sportback; 3.0-litre, V6, supercharged, seven-speed dual clutch.
It’s a big, bold car that cannot fail to grab your attention. Audi is at pains to point out the ‘passion’ in the Audi A7 design and proudly states that its huge radiator grille is unique to the model. It has an almost Aston stance and is quite handsome – if only they’d been a bit more brave at the front end.
Ignore the marketing waffle – for Sportback read Hatchback. Obviously trying to distance the "Audi A7" from its more normal brethren in name, what this car offers is a remarkably practical, electrically operated rear tailgate. Behind it is an impressive load space of 535-litre load space that more than doubles to 1390 with the rear seats folded down.
Rear legroom is adequate for adults on longish journeys and, as a whole, the Audi A7 cabin is extremely well designed with high quality, tactile materials and ergonomics that could teach Mercedes a thing or two.
For tech fans there’s no shortage of delight, especially if one has plundered the extensive options list. Toys on offer include a night-vision camera, radar cruise control, a head-up display that warns you if a hapless pedestrian wanders into the road in front of you, full internet browsing and a staggeringly good navigation system that’s hooked up to Google Maps.
Initially four engines will be available before the inevitable onslaught of endless variants starts emerging: two V6 petrol engines: a 2.8 and a supercharged 3.0 TFSI quattro, along with a couple of 3.0 TDi motors. Grip, predictably, is monumental and cornering is flat and true, inspiring massive levels of confidence from driver and passenger alike. Select the Sport setting on the Drive-Select system and the ride becomes firmer Enter the Audi A7, Ingolstadt’s answer to BMW’s Gran Turismo (in style and utility) and Mercedes’ CLS (looks).
With rear seats up, the Audi A7 has 18.9 cu ft of luggage space under its electrically opened/closed liftback. Drop the rear seats and there’s 49.0 cu ft.
Audi doesn’t break new ground with the interior design of the Audi A7, which is fine with us...it has comfortable seats, the expected great design and excellent fit and finish.
Audi’s MMI electronic interface has long been the most logical of the German systems.
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