2016 Audi Q7 3.0 TDI Review: A Lighter, Faster, Premium Family Express
The skinny: Audi Australia, sitting on 17.0 percent growth for 2015, is in a happy place at the moment. And its new seven-seat Q7 will do the cause here for Europe's "number one" premium brand, no harm.
This, the Q7, is superior family transport. It offers lashings of luxury and style in equal measure to the lashings of power and torque from the 3.0 litre TDI under the bonnet. And it might sit high with the commanding presence of a large SUV, but it has sportswagon grip from the quattro AWD system below.
Vehicle Style: Large luxury SUV
Price: $103,900
Engine/trans: 3.0 litre TDI (diesel)/ 8-speed tiptronic quattro AWD
Power/torque: 200kW/600Nm
Fuel Economy claimed: 5.9 l/100km | tested: 8.9 l/100km
OVERVIEW
If you have to drive half-way across the continent, this is the car to do it in - Audi's new Q7. It is immensely powerful, swallows kilometres as relentlessly as a train, and is effortlessly comfortable.
There are few cars that will have you and your passengers emerging as refreshed after long, long kilometres at the wheel, as from the Q7.
It might look like a large wagon – it seats seven, no problem, and has a large and imposing presence - but it drives like an intercapital express.