Performance Audi A7 SportBack

After a continued wait, Audi assuredly slid the covers off the all-new A7 Sportback during a appropriate accident at the art building “Pinakothek der Moderne” in Munich today. Following a agnate blueprint with the abate A5 Sportback, Audi crafted a glassy five-door archetypal to ambition the new Mercedes-Benz CLS and BMW 5-Series Gran Turismo.

The German carmaker claims the assembly adaptation of endure year’s Sportback Concept brings calm the best of three worlds:”the adventurous breeding of a coupe, the abundance of a auto and the acumen of a base wagon.” In reality, the A7 Sportback is a shaper searching adaptation of the next A6 with a lower roofline, a added applied rear bear and basement for four.

The car’s exoteric and autogenous architectonics has remained abundantly clear over the 2009 Detroit appearance car with a lot of changes apropos applied data such as the beyond head- and appendage lamps and the appearance and admeasurement of the exoteric mirrors, forth with the beneath adorned trim inside. And oh, it aswell gets a accurate retractable rear addle-brain agnate to the one begin on the Porsche Panamera.

The five-door coupe, which is positioned amid the A6 and A8, is 4.97 meters (16.31 ft) continued and 1.91 meters (6.27 ft) wide, but alone 1.42 meters (4.66 ft) high. The rear bear reveals a baggage alcove with a accommodation of 535-liters (18.89 cu ft) that can cool to a aggregate of 1,390 liters (49.09 cu ft) with the breach rear bench backrests bankrupt down.

Under the sheetmetal, the A7 Sportback rides on a adapted architectonics of the next A6, which is due in both auto and Avant (Audi allocution for Base Wagon) forms in 2011.

Audi will initially action the A7 Sportback with a best of two gasoline and two turbo agent V6 engines, all featuring absolute injection, an activity recuperation arrangement and stop & alpha technology.

The petrol ambit comprises of the 2.8 FSI and 3.0 TFSI models, both of which are commutual with a bifold clamp S-Tronic manual and quattro all-wheel drive.

The naturally-aspirated 2.8-liter assemblage produces 204HP and 280 Nm (206.52 lb-ft) of torque at 5,250 rpm affective the A7 from 0 to 100 km/h (62mph) in 8.3 abnormal and on to a top acceleration of 235 km/h (146mph). It consumes 8.0lt / 100 km (29.4 US mpg) on average, which corresponds to 187g/km of CO2 (300.95 g/mile).

The supercharged 3.0-liter V6 assemblage delivers 300 hp) amid 5,250 and 6,500 rpm, and delivers 440 Nm (324.53 lb-ft) of torque amid 2,900 and 4,500 rpm. The accepted dart takes 5.6 seconds, and top acceleration is bound to 250 km/h (155 mph), while ammunition burning is 8.2 lt/100km (28.7 US mpg), agnate to 190 g/km of CO2 (305.8 g/mile).

In the agent front, Audi offers two versions of the 3.0-liter V6 TDI. The added able alternative produces 245HP amid 4,000 and 4,500 rpm and 500Nm (368.78 lb-ft) of torque amid 1,400 and 3,250 rpm, and comes with the S tronic manual and quattro all-wheel drive as standard.

The dart from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) takes 6.5 abnormal and top acceleration is bound to 250 km/h (155 mph), while boilerplate ammunition burning is rated at 6.0lt/100km (39.2 US mpg) with CO2 emissions of 158 g/km (254.3 g/mile).

The basal adaptation of the 3.0-liter TDI churns out 204HP amid 3,750 and 4,500 rpm and will be accessible alone with front-wheel drive and a multitronic automated transmission. With this engine, the A7 Sportback accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in 8.1 abnormal and alcove a top acceleration of 234 km/h (145 mph), while arresting 5.3 liters of agent per 100 km (44.4 US mpg) with CO2 emissions of 139g/km (223.70 g/mile).