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When it was first rolled out three years ago, the Audi Q7 performance SUV immediately achieved a leadership position - as a sporty, comfortable as well as high-performance recreational and business vehicle on a grand scale.
Now Audi is making it even better - more striking and more efficient, with lower emissions. Its dynamic proportions and distinctive lines express its character, and subtle modifications now endow its styling with even more elegance.
The sporty exterior design of the Audi Q7 has been revised to incorporate the newly designed radiator grille and bumpers and the new xenon headlights with LED daytime running lights. The rear has been given a new and distinct 3D shape as well as new LED rear lights.
A multitude of improvements in the interior enhance the sense of elegance: the new instrument cluster, ambient lighting in the door linings, new inlays and leather choices as well as many chrome-enhanced elements.
The Audi Q7 remains extremely spacious and highly variable on the interior, with up to seven seats and luggage space of up to 2,035 litres. Fitting for a vehicle of its class the Audi Q7 comes with an outstanding array of standard equipment: Servotronic, four zone automatic air conditioning, leather seats with electric seat adjustment and lumbar support for the front, five years free service, rear side airbags, ISOFIX child seat preparation and many more, depending on the chosen engine.
Further highly advanced assistance and infotainment systems are available as an option and include among others climate-controlled comfort seats, high beam assist, adaptive light including cornering lights and for the first time also a special superhighway beam.
In the Middle East the Audi Q7 is available either as a 3.6 quattro or a 4.2 quattro. The 3.6 FSI engine has a power output of 206 kW (280 bhp), 360 Nm torque between 2,500 and 5,000 rpm and an average fuel consumption of 12.1 litres per 100 km. The 4.2 FSI, a V8, delivers 257 kW (350 bhp), 440 Nm at 3,500 rpm with a fuel consumption of 12.7 liters/100 km.
An efficiency-enhancing energy recovery system has been added for both models and both feature a six-speed tiptronic transmission and quattro permanent all-wheel drive with 40:60 dynamic torque split. For especially dynamic drivers ceramic brake disks have been added as a new option for the V8.
The Audi Q7 starts from $56,000 (BD21,108) for the 3.6 quattro and $71,000 for the 4.2 quattro.
Not available in the Middle East yet, but interesting to note nonetheless, is the new 3.0 TDI clean diesel engine with the world's cleanest diesel technology.
