Test drive Audi Q7 3.0 TFSI: Who in the field, and who for cable

Today, we have to test one of the most anticipated cars — the new Audi Q7.
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Ten years have passed since the release of the first model and people have been waiting for. Some have grown old waiting and not to new products to them, and others are not in vain lived through the global economic crisis, the era selfi-sticks and the beginning of the career of Justin Bieber: competitors will have to tighten their belts to compete with the new «ku-seventh.»

The new Audi Q7 is built on a new platform MLB: it is built on Bentley Bentayga and dividing it almost all of the next Audi models as well as the new VW Touareg and Porsche Cayenne. The car was 325 kilograms lighter than its predecessor thanks to the extensive use of «winged» metal in the body structure and suspension elements. Slimming great impact on the car's exterior form but he has kept the proportions of the first model, but a precursor looks more serious and massive. The body of the previous generation as given at the mercy of the masons: flakes on the sides rounded lines and put it «angular» optics grille, exterior thereby brought under the overall corporate design.
The car is too quiet, even with the package S-line: the low air suspension position of the car does not look like a five-meter SUV, but as another model Allroad. The design of the Audi Q7 is nothing for which it would be possible to catch the eye: No newfangled kinetically-progressive design and complex shapes.
But who said that the car in four and a half million must notify the participants about their presence in traffic as brutal Lexus LX?
Tsymes new image of the Q7 in serenity and ease: the car does not scream on the street provoking others, and politely invites.

Shop — not a giant smartphone both in Volvo XC90, it is functional and uncluttered. The perfect blend of style and attention to detail that are «seasoned» with high quality materials. Who has not walked in the reviews on the touch buttons with microdisplays on climate control, but this is crazy cool!

Like the dashboard Virtual Cockpit: on a clear TFT display grouped any vehicle testimony. Sound system Bang & Olufsen with 23 speakers create a 3D sound effect. Contour interior lighting changes color depending on the mode selected Drive select, well, or you can adjust the color on mood. Reaches into his pocket doors — lighted lamp there. And thanks to a clear image from the rear view camera always see what is now vedesh rear bumper. Engineers and designers have tried to create a sense of comfort and convenience inside the car.

The Quattro all-wheel drive system uses samoblok Torsen. Under normal conditions, the torque is distributed in proportion 40/60 in favor of the rear wheels, but if necessary will go back to 85 percent of the time, and up to 70 percent can be applied to the front wheels. The system Drive select has a lift / offroad mode air suspension lifting as high as possible at speeds up to 35 kilometers per hour. No cross-axle lock, so if something happens, pray only remain on the Torsen. Praying will Krylatskoye on off-road range, where our car was met butchers trial of the machines have little resemblance to those. According to them, this polygon — paddling, they then just fry kebabs.

Our task — to find out the limit off-road Audi Q7, well, that is to plant a car. Said — done: in the first well of the rear wheel treacherously hung in the air and let out the front splash dirty water and snow. This spectacle has created an unprecedented buzz around us. And then it became clear that nalachenny city dude in the mud and rednecks on tractor tires, was not at ease.

Save our situation helped only cable and exhausted second Russian problem Hover. Enthusiasm died down, we decided to take a ride on the overpasses and test help system during the descent. Q7 SUV is not so, as the Range Rover or Lexus: it is necessary to forget about crossing axes and angles about a longitudinal inclination — all those guys with barbecue. Raise «pneuma» and take a ride through the fields — it is for the Audi Q7. You do not go to the crocodile moccasins to conquer Mount Everest? «Ku-seventh» — no.

The new Q7 is good in everything else: in automatic mode, the transmission is like a giant tanker on the Gulf of Aden, not noticing how crushed under a pirate in the pits of the roadway. Perfect smoothness is not at odds with the handling: on this car, you can zip along the lane without compromising passenger comfort and dramatically reconstructed, if necessary. The machine is heavy, but «fat» does not stop: the banks and there is a little belated reaction on the steering wheel. Soundproofing is beautiful, gives a sense of speed only the speedometer: you go in peace, thinking about life, but you will look at the speedometer and instinctively takes his foot off the trigger.

But in Dynamic mode, the new Q7 turns into a killer hot hatch, the Bolsheviks — 6.1 seconds to 100 kilometers per hour. Not sportkarovsky indicator agrees. But very decent for such a road battleship. The engine is mated to eight-speed automatic transmission works so smoothly that it becomes scary and for himself and for others: traction car and small trolley with an electric supercharger. They fired the car up and... until the next filling station. On the one hand, it's nice to know in refuellers face with the nearest gas station, but on the other hand, the phrase «ninety-five thousand two hundred rubles» causes tanker silly smile when vidishsya with him a second time that day. The declared consumption of 9.4 liters per hundred in the city boldly multiplied does not fall on the two, and on the track claimed 6.8 liters less than 12. And it Efficiency mode, where the gas is strangled, and all the car's power focused on fuel economy.

The new Q7 do not need to chase the records from the cameras video fixation, first of all — it's a big and comfortable car. Do expediency in the petrol engine capacity of 333 hp, when there is a three-liter, but on heavy fuel? Just in time for its fuel consumption corresponds to the declared data. Statistics will not lie: in 2014, 90% sold Q7 — diesel and the new generation will repeat the same story. For Russia, the diesel version of the Q7 deforsirovan from 272 to 249 hp

But still, how cool to drive this car: a predictable response by pressing a gas pedal as keeps turning as respond to change directions. And there is no feeling of heaviness, which pursues all cars of this class. This car is driven as a passenger, and they want to control!
And what about the expense of rivals Audi Q7? Range Rover — c conservative interior of the Victorian Offroad fit better, but where the owners of these vehicles are the most common? At the door of the restaurant quite good, or at a sports club near the new Lexus LX. One can only Volvo XC90. Given that these cars are, of course, will be used by 99% in the city, it is to compete with the car of Ingoldshtadta able disciplined and restrained «Swede». Here are just a «peek-a-Sieben» much cheaper than the XC90.

More recently Audi has introduced the «ku-seventh» under the letter «S» — SQ7 TDI. Vehicle equipped with new diesel V8 c two turbines, a supercharger with an electric drive, and provides 435 hp, with a torque of 900 Nm. Engineers especially drew attention to the fact that such a supercharging system is implemented for the first time in the world and thus turbolag is gone: electric supercharger compensates for the power shortage at low revs. In tandem with the new engine «dancing» eight-automatic. A fuel consumption of promise at the six-cylinder engine — 7.4 liters per hundred kilometers. But remembering the recent «dizelgeyt» not very hard to believe, and that figure is preliminary.71
Photo: Andrew Mineev, Pavel Bogdanov
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