The Audi A7 Sportback combines the chic petition of the A8 sedan with the comfort of the A5 Sportback to create one incredibly desired car. And without the equally styled A5 Sportback in the way at U.S. dealerships, the A7 actually has a venture to ensue. Inside and out, the A7 skin version minutiae that reward the driver before the engine has ever been crooked on. The A7 faithfully follows the model of the Sportback model from the 2009 Detroit Auto Show, remark from the concept's oversized 21-inch wheels. The large glass roofed enhancing the propose of the concept is also dead on the production model, which retains the show car's frameless windows.
The new A8 sedan has rewarding goal details too, still not near as many as the A7. Comparing with rivals from Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Lexus, the A8's sales are low but the A7 can act as a supplement for Audi's high-end sales.
Overseas, the A7 will go on auction in the reduce for €51,650, or about $66,600 U.S. Like the Mercedes-Benz CLS, we think the U.S. A7's pricing to reduce between Audi's midsize and large sedans, still nearer to the A8's base estimate. Before the inevitable S7 variant is unveiled, A7s in Europe will tender only V-6 engines; two gas and two diesel. Front-oblige models get a CVT while all-wheel-effort A7s have a seven-hurry reflex transmission.
In the U.S., deem on the supercharged 3.0-liter V-6 making 300 horsepower to complete as the foremost engine. Accelerating from 0-to-62 mph will take 5.6 seconds, Audi says. On the more fuel-able border, some markets will get a 3.0-liter diesel that will achieve the U.S. equivalent of about 44 mpg by European standards. All A7s get a stay-institute routine to horde fuel. The body is serene of steel and aluminum mix, and the car is about 15 percent lighter than it would have been were the A7 made completely from steel, according to Audi.
Efficiency, of course, isn't the A7's raison d'etre. The A7 starts with the A8's large six-place lattice and (possible) LED headlights, making the strongest impression from the periphery regard. Xenon headlights are banners, and the slim row of LEDs integrated into the wall mirrors is a kind upset.
The bank analysis shows off the A7's grace to the peak make, with the C-column rising to the roof in what the automaker calls a "dynamic wave." The dedicated quality line running atop the door handles and below the frameless windows gives the A7 beefy shoulders in back, where a spoiler automatically lifts about 81 mph, retracting about 50 mph. Again, the A5 Sportback has parallel shape, but the A7's total extent sets it apart, though the 18- and 20-inch wheels help too.
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