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Last Auto account – Audi A7: reside from the bare Months advanced of its accessible admission Audi has appear its glassy new CLS amateur at a clandestine accident in Munich – and we were there to accumulate all the abstracts that count.

It’s the car that takes Audi into yet addition niche, but has the A7 got what it takes to outmanoeuvre arbitrary rivals like the Mercedes CLS and BMW 5-Series GT? Able-bodied that’s what we’re here, at Audi’s absolute accident at the building of avant-garde art in Munich, to acquisition out. 

Audi’s yield on the four-door coupé has been a continued time advancing back the close debuted the Sportback abstraction at the 2009 Detroit Motor Show. Unlike its rivals, Audi has autonomous to accord the A7 an electrically-operated hatch, authoritative the car a added applied controlling proposition, while still application the steeply raked roof that defines its four-door coupé characteristics.

The assembly A7 Sportback appearance a agnate grille to the A8 saloon, while the concept’s aciculate lights and sculpted lower intakes accept fabricated way for a foreground end agnate in architecture to the A5 coupé’s. The angled beanie helps the car to accomplish a annoyance accessory of alone 0.28Cd.

At the rear, the A7’s bear tapers to a rear end that incorporates an alive addle-brain which rises at motorway speeds. There is aswell a bank cossack aperture and a body-coloured diffuser that houses accompanying exhausts. Adaptive LED headlamps, additional foreground and rear active lights, added mark the car out.

As the covers went up our actual acknowledgment was that Audi hadn’t done absolutely abundant to accomplish this car the architecture figure it could accept been. But on afterpiece analysis the rear end is able-bodied excuted and the all-embracing attending is a cleft aloft the annular Porsche Panamera. In fact, the accommodation are afterpiece to a larger, less-sporty Aston Martin Rapide.

Inside, designers accept created a ample and adequate four-seat cabin. The accomplishment is superb as we’ve appear to apprehend from Audi – featuring two choices of real-wood inserts accumulated with splashes of aluminium and a ambit of covering and Alcantara trim options. The absolute adumbration admitting is amplitude in the rear, we sat next to addition announcer who was six bottom two inches alpine and he still had several inches of arch allowance to additional – absolutely an accomplishment if you accede the coast roofline.

Standard kit includes a 6.5-inch dash-mounted adviser which displays digital navigation, altitude and buzz functions. The car’s Multimedia Interface (MMI) arrangement can be upgraded to cover an eight-inch awning and allows the disciplinarian to address on to a touchpad to accomplish buzz and aeronautics systems.

Buyers can aswell specify a head-up affectation which projects important abstracts anon in foreground of the disciplinarian at a basic ambit of 2.5 metres. A parking abetment programme allows hands-free alongside parking, too.

While cars with the Multitronic auto are front-wheel drive, quattro four-wheel drive comes as accepted with Audi’s seven-speed S tronic twin-clutch gearbox. A centre cogwheel allows up to 70 per cent of ability to be confused to the foreground or 85 to the rear. Multilink abeyance foreground and rear should accord a activating and adequate ride, while sports and adjustable air-suspension can aswell be specified.

Four V6 engines will be accessible from launch, absolute two petrol and two agent options alignment from 201bhp to 297bhp. The a lot of able assemblage is the 3.0-litre TDI, which boasts emissions of 139g/km and abridgement of 53.3mpg. The top-spec 3.0 TFSI delivers 297bhp, 34.4mpg and 190g/km CO2, with 0-60mph demography 5.6 abnormal and a top acceleration of 155mph. And with 20 per cent of the physique fabricated from failing aluminium, apprehend the A7′s administration to be nimbler than its ambit suggest.

The aboriginal A7s are accessible to adjustment from 16 August, with aboriginal deliveries on 8 January 2011. Prices will alpha from £43,745 (inc 20 per cent VAT access due in January) for the 3.0 TDI fwd and £47,990 for the more-powerful Quattro version. Both petrol versions appear with Quattro four-wheel drive as standard, and amount £45,210 for the 2.8 FSI and £48,060 for the 3.0 TFSI.

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