2017 Audi Q7 - Review

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►Edited past times : Shahen Tharammal

► PRICE :

Audi Q7 3.0 TFSI quattro® Premium $54,800

Audi Q7 3.0 TFSI quattro® Premium Plus $58,800

Audi Q7 3.0 TFSI quattro® Prestige $64,300

The all-new 2017 Audi Q7 is ane of the most luxurious together with fun-to-drive midsize SUVs you lot tin toilet buy, though it also has a premium cost tag. According to our analysis of professional person reviews together with data, the Q7 comes with a muscular V6 engine that's well-complemented past times its automatic transmission, delivering might equally shortly equally you lot hitting the accelerator. Despite its large size, the Q7 is nimble to a greater extent than or less corners, with precise steering together with strong brakes to aid you lot taste twisty roads.

Inside, you'll discovery high-end materials, comfortable seats, together with lots of high-tech features to maintain you lot informed, entertained, together with safe. The showtime ii rows of seats offering generous room for adults together with are comfortable for long drives. The 3rd row is cramped, though, which is typical for 3-row SUVs. Many rivals offering to a greater extent than cargo room than the Q7, therefore you lot may desire to facial expression elsewhere if you lot demand to practise lots of hauling.(SEE ALL PHOTOS)

EXTERIOR

Design-wise, the all-new Q7 proves that Audi tin toilet occupation to a greater extent than than merely a few nips together with tucks patch redesigning a vehicle. The SUV’s torso lines are instantly sharper, blending to a greater extent than squared-off surfaces front end to rear. At the same time, the Q7 blends inward with the balance of the Audi lineup, featuring headlamps, a singleframe grille together with massive bumper intakes similar to those seen on many 2015 model twelvemonth updates. On the other hand, the Q7’s huge grille connects to the headlights for a unique appearance.

Changes are to a greater extent than subdued to a greater extent than or less back, where the novel Q7 boasts a similar tailgate together with a nearly identical bumper. Still, at that topographic point are a lot of novel features, including reshaped, narrower taillights together with trapezoidal exhaust pipes. On the sides, the Q7’s trademark grapheme line of piece of work has been repositioned closer to the sills, patch the waistline has been redesigned for a crisper look.

If you lot discovery the all-new Q7 less bulky, therefore you lot eyes aren’t playing tricks on you. The rebuilt SUV is 1.5 inches shorter together with 0.6 inches narrower, patch its pinnacle remained virtually unchanged. More importantly, the novel Q7 is a lot lighter, with certainly trims weighing upwardly to 716 pounds less when compared to the previous model. That’s a massive 26-percent driblet from the first-gen Q7’s curb weight. Impressive! Most of the weight was dropped from the chassis, which is 220 pounds lighter, together with the torso structure, which weights 156 pounds less thank you lot to a novel design.

Customers larn to remove betwixt eleven outside colors, 4 of which are new. An south line of piece of work outside bundle changes the touchstone bumpers, air inlets, side sills, roof spoiler the diffuser with sportier units, patch the grille gets a dark gray, high-gloss complete instead of the touchstone high-gloss black.(SEE ALL PHOTOS)

INTERIOR

Although the novel Q7 is shorter together with narrower, the cabin is truly longer together with offers to a greater extent than caput room together with boasts an additional 0.8 inches betwixt the showtime together with minute row of seats. Head room has increased past times 1.6 inches upwardly front end together with 0.9 inches inward the minute row. Cargo capacity has also increased. The seven-seat version offers 10.4 cubic feet of storage room that increases to 27.2 with the third-row seats folded. The five-seat comes with 31.4 cubic feet, which increases to 73.3 cubes with the minute row folded flat.

Design-wise, the redesigned interior is a massive divergence compared to the first-generation’s cabin. Gone is the bulky take in stack with its ancient A/C vents, knobs together with display, instantly replaced past times a taller take in console. As a result, the A/C controls cause got been repositioned to the same story equally the musical instrument cluster, patch the display instantly resides on the dashboard. The latter also features a unitary blueprint that stretches from the driver’s to the passenger’s side. H5N1 brand-new, three-spoke steering bike replaces the previous unit, patch the musical instrument cluster is all digital.

Naturally, the novel Q7’s cabin is packed with the finest materials nosotros tin toilet await from an automaker such equally Audi. The seats tin toilet endure wrapped inward either Cricket or Valcona leather combined with Alcantara together with at that topographic point are 7 unlike color combos to remove from. The high-grade leather is complemented past times a host of aluminum together with woods trims, including Beaufort walnut.

There’s also a brand-new AC organization that uses fewer buttons together with controls, with most options displayed on the TFT screen. The MMI organization is also new, featuring intelligent suggestions for unlike tasks, including searching for specific vocal titles or navigation destinations. As far equally amusement goes, the Q7 comes with ane or optionally ii 10.1-inch tablets equally raise topographic point monitors. The tablet is powered past times NVIDIA Tegra 4 processors, is temperature-resistant together with connected to the MMI navigation. What’s more, it provides access to the radio, media, navigation together with several motorcar functions via WiFi.(SEE ALL PHOTOS)

SPECIFICATION

► Year:2017

► Make:Audi

► Model:Q7

► Price:$ 54800

► Engine:V6

► Horsepower @ RPM:333

► Torque @ RPM:324

► Displacement:3.0 L

► 0-60 time:6.1 sec. (Est.)

► Top Speed:155 mph (Est.)

FEATURES

While the 2017 Audi Q7 appears, at showtime blush, to knock all of the basics of a luxury SUV out of the park, there’s a whole other side to this Audi: it’s a high-tech wonderland. From the consumer-geek side of Audi's newest Multi-Media Interface (MMI) to the engineer-in-a-white-coat aspect of the driver assistance systems, the novel Q7 places Audi dorsum with the caput of the cast when it comes to in-car tech.

That's why nosotros give it a 10. There's no sensual rock left unturned inward this luxury SUV.

While Audi hasn’t finalized all of the assistance systems that volition endure available for American consumption, the Q7’s smorgasbord is ample. It offers everything from adaptive cruise command together with stop-and-go traffic jam assist, to a “predictive efficiency assistant” that reads the terrain (drawing on its navigation data, fifty-fifty when route guidance isn’t beingness used) to advise slowing downwards inward advance of abrupt turns, depression speed limits, or other reasons to lighten upwardly on the throttle together with salve some fuel.

There’s also a lane-keeping system, collision avoidance, left-turn assistance monitoring, equally good equally a metropolis assistance bundle that includes low-speed lane-change assistance together with blind-spot monitoring, a raise "Pre Sense" collision organization which takes proactive measures if it senses an impending rear-end collision, cross-traffic assist, together with a novel trailer maneuvering assist, which takes the steering command together with places it on the MMI knob—much similar the organization Ford lately announced inward the novel F-150.

Other high-tech features available inward the novel Q7 include a parking assistance package, which bundles automatic parallel together with perpendicular parking together with departure, using surround-view cameras together with 12 ultrasonic sensors, which tin toilet also endure used past times the driver for precise views when parking manually.

A nighttime vision pick uses long-range infrared cameras to discovery objects upwardly to 984 feet away, equally good equally detecting people together with larger animals at distances upwardly to 328 feet, highlighting the people or animals with yellowish markings on the display screen.

The Q7 is offered inward Premium, Premium Plus, together with Prestige models. While surfaces together with trims larn upgraded on those upper-level models, stepping upwardly to them isn't something you'd practise equally much for the additional features equally for the potential options. For instance, some of the best tech features (like the Adaptive Chassis bundle together with its four-wheel steering together with adaptive suspension), together with the 23-speaker, 1,920-watt Bang & Olufsen BeoCore good system, are only available on the Prestige. But pick upwardly a Q7 Prestige with those items plus the Luxury Package with its power-closing doors together with contour seats, plus a few other extras, together with you lot tin toilet terminate upwardly pushing the cost toward $85,000—quite a distance from the $56,000 base of operations cost for a Q7 Premium 3.0T. (SEE ALL PHOTOS)

DRIVETRAIN

Despite a curb weight of close 5,000 pounds, the 2017 Audi Q7 is surprisingly maneuverable together with nimble. Especially if the optional adaptive air respite together with four-wheel steering are specified, the Q7 drives equally if it's truly a size smaller, similar Audi's Q5. Even without the Adaptive Chassis option, though, the Q7 is sure-footed to a greater extent than or less turns together with instills driver confidence thank you lot to strong, consistent brakes. This athleticism doesn't come upwardly at the expense of ride quality, either. Rough pavement is effortlessly smoothed over together with the cabin remains blissfully quiet. Accelerating to highway speeds or passing is piece of cake thank you lot to the strong V6 together with responsive eight-speed transmission.

Just equally meaning equally what the driver tin toilet depict from the Q7 is what the motorcar tin toilet practise on its own. Combining existing technologies similar lane-keeping assist, adaptive cruise control, forward-looking cameras together with navigation information, the Q7 tin toilet aid drivers considerably during congested expressway commutes or vast, unpopulated highway stretches past times doing much of the driving on its own.(SEE ALL PHOTOS)

STYLING

The 2017 Audi Q7 is a seven-passenger full-size SUV that is available inward 3 cut back levels: Premium, Premium Plus together with Prestige.

Standard features for the Premium cut back include 19-inch alloy wheels, xenon headlights, automatic wipers, LED running lights together with taillights, power-folding heated mirrors, a panoramic sunroof, roof rails, front end together with raise parking sensors, frontal collision warnings with pedestrian detection together with automatic braking, together with a might liftgate.

On the inside, you lot larn cruise control, selectable elbow grease modes, three-zone automatic climate control, an auto-dimming rearview mirror, a 7-inch color driver information display, a tilt-and-telescoping steering bike with wheel-mounted shift paddles, leather upholstery, heated eight-way might front end seats (with driver four-way might lumbar), driver retentiveness settings, 35/30/35-split second-row folding seats together with 50/50-split might folding third-row seats. Standard tech features include a rearview camera, Audi's MMI infotainment system, a 7-inch key display, Bluetooth telephone together with good connectivity together with a 10-speaker good organization with a CD player, hard disk drive together with satellite radio, together with ii USB ports.

A navigation organization pick is available together with is paired with phonation control, a handwriting recognition controller pad, a 4G LTE WiFi hotspot, emergency telematics together with smartphone integration with Apple CarPlay together with Android Auto.

The Premium Plus includes the navigation organization together with adds keyless entry together with ignition (with hands-free tailgate access), auto-dimming side mirrors, a power-adjustable steering bike together with interior ambient lighting. Options include the Vision bundle (LED headlights, a configurable gauge-cluster display together with a surround-view photographic boob tube camera system) together with the Cold Weather bundle (four-zone automatic climate control, ventilated 12-way might front end seats together with manual raise window sunshades).

The Prestige includes the to a higher house listed Premium Plus options along with 20-inch wheels, a blind-spot monitor, raise cross-traffic alerts, side travel out warnings, a head-up display, additional interior lighting, a high-resolution 8.3-inch key display together with a 19-speaker Bose surround-sound good system.

All Q7 trims are eligible for the Cold weather condition bundle (heated steering bike together with raise seats), a tow hitch together with a rear-seat amusement system. Premium Plus together with Prestige trims are eligible for the Driver Assistance bundle (traffic sign recognition, automatic high beams, lane-departure intervention together with adaptive cruise command with traffic jam assist).

Options reserved exclusively for the Prestige cut back include the Luxury bundle (18-way might front end seats with massage functions, might door closers, a faux-suede headliner together with upgraded leather upholstery), Adaptive Chassis bundle (all-wheel steering together with an adaptive air suspension), a nighttime vision photographic boob tube camera together with a 23-speaker Bang & Olufsen good system.(SEE ALL PHOTOS)

ENGINE

While Audi admits a 2.0-liter turbocharged gasoline 4-cylinder together with a 3.0-liter TDI turbodiesel are slated to position inward an appearance at some time to come date, initially the novel Q7 comes with the existing supercharged 3.0-liter gas-fired V6 that continues to construct 333 horsepower together with 325 lb-ft of torque. Mated to a responsive, paddle-shiftable 8-speed Tiptronic automatic transmission teamed with Audi’s Quattro AWD system, the engine takes this handsome together with notably lighter hauler from 0-60 mph inward a claimed 5.7 seconds, gives it a stellar 7,700-pound towing capability, together with earns nineteen mpg city/25 mpg highway fuel economic scheme numbers from the EPA compared to the 16/22 comparative stats of the previous-generation Q7 with the same powertrain.

► 3.0-liter supercharged V6

333 horsepower @ 5,500-6,500 rpm

325 lb-ft of torque @ 2,900-5,300 rpm

EPA city/highway fuel economy: 19/25 mpg (8-speed automatic)

SAFETY

Standard security features for the 2017 Q7 include antilock brakes, stability together with traction control, front-seat side airbags, full-length side drapery airbags, front end together with raise parking sensors, a rearview photographic boob tube camera together with frontal collision warning with automatic braking. Also included is Audi's Pre-Sense basic organization that senses if the driver is attempting to avoid a collision together with automatically tensions the seatbelts, primes the braking organization together with closes windows together with the sunroof. Available Audi Connect services also include emergency assistance, automatic crash notification, remote door locking together with curfew, speed together with valet alerts.

The Prestige cut back gets a blind-spot monitor, raise cross-traffic alert, lane divergence warning together with intervention, together with side travel out alerts (notifies exiting occupants if a motorcar or bicyclist is approaching from behind). Rear topographic point side airbags are optional on all Q7 trims.

In Edmunds brake testing, the Q7 Prestige with the Adaptive Chassis bundle came to a halt from sixty mph inward 112 feet, which is a real skilful effect for an SUV inward this class.

FUEL ECONOMY

As we're nevertheless waiting for the arrival of the 2017 Audi Q7 inward 2.0T form, together with the TDI model probable won't render until adjacent year, that leaves only a unmarried powertrain combination for the U.S. at this point.

The 2017 Audi Q7 isn't leading inward its efficiency, but at that topographic point are some higher-mileage models on the way.

Official EPA ratings for the 3.0-liter supercharged V-6, paired with the 8-speed automatic together with all-wheel elbow grease are nineteen mpg city, 25 highway, 21 combined.

That's non segment-leading, inward whatever way, but we've seen some evidence that real-world numbers are impressive. Over to a greater extent than or less 250 miles of pretty rapid twisty-road driving, over several vehicles, nosotros saw an average to a greater extent than or less xx mpg.(SEE ALL PHOTOS)

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