audi a7 sportback

audi a7 sportback
Quadruplet V6 engine options are acquirable at propulsion: 2.8 L (201 bhp (150 kW; 204 PS)) and supercharged 3.0 L (295 bhp (220 kW; 299 PS)) petrol engines and two 3.0 L diesel engines with either 201 bhp (150 kW; 204 PS) or 241 bhp (180 kW; 244 PS).

The Northeast Indweller 2012 A7 is exclusive acquirable with the 3.0 L supercharged TFSI V6 nonindustrial 310 bhp (231 kW; 314 PS) and 325 lb•ft united with an 8-speed mechanical transmittal

Reviewers hold cited the Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class as a competitor to the Audi A7 in the tetrad entree head coupé marketplace.The A7 has also been compared to the BMW 5 Broadcast Gran Turismo since both are mid-luxury hatchbacks, tho' the 5 Serial GT is based on the full-size BMW 7 Serial patch the A7 is misrelated to the flagship Audi A8 despite the single-digit disagreement in their traducement.

The A7 features all the wood resource systems from the 2011 Audi A8, but adds a head-up display and Busy Lane Aid.

audi a7 sportback

audi a7 sportback

audi a7 sportback

audi a7 sportback

audi a7 sportback

Audi A7 Sportback

Audi A7 Sportback

Peruse the A7's spec sheet and, behind the sofa, a large, grey pachyderm stirs. Five doors, lifting tailgate, front-wheel drive, check; a trunk snakes gently over your shoulder in search of a currant bun. Look at the A7 photos and you realise that not only is there an elephant in the room, but that Audi has built a hatchback.

After years of telling the world that only a saloon is stiff enough for sporty German handling, Audi has now 'fessed up that while hatchbacks might be potentially more floppy, people like them. First it was the A5 Sportback, and now this: the new A7.

Big, high-strength steel side frames and complex bracing around the hatchback retain torsional strength, with cast-aluminium front suspension turrets just like Audi's top-model A8 limo. Doors, bonnet, hatchback and the front wings are hot-formed aluminium.

The result passes America's fearsome pylon side-impact test, but is stiffer and 15 per cent lighter than the outgoing A6 saloon (the A7's new chassis will underpin the forthcoming A6 replacement).

While the blurb pitches the A7 as a grand coupé competing with the newly updated Mercedes-Benz CLS, it's both more and less than that. It's also standout lovely in that utterly understated Audi mien – horrible Q7 excepted. There are even shades of Alfa Romeo's GTV6, Giorgetto Giugiaro's and Alfa Centro Stile's elegant Eighties coupé. Funny that Walter da Silva, VW/Audi's design grand panjandrum, ran Centro Stile at the time.