Test drive Audi Q7 2006 - 2009 SUV

Black envy

Perhaps I was the only person who did not like the Audi Q7 from the very beginning.

 

Not that at all. But during the Russian presentation, sympathy somehow did not arise. It was even a little embarrassing, after all, a VIP-test that gathered in a night club specially equipped with Audi under a presentation in the abandoned workshops of the Danilovsky manufactory, did not hide her admiration. And the action itself was amazing! A true city of sins: outside the flashes of bonfires, gloomy dilapidated buildings, priestesses of love in the gateway, and inside - chic sound, light, striptease, gambling, expensive alcohol and gourmet snacks for free, fashionable dijes, different -caliber Russian celebrities Golden audience. The atmosphere of unlimited income and ambitions.

 

Q7 appeared for only a few minutes - first in the main role of the promo film, a predator, and then alive, accompanied by black securities with Dobermans. Stylish. And intelligibly - they say, the novelty is not going to stop before the sophisticated, financially corrupted, saturated by the public. He came to take his own - in this slogan the whole Q7. Evil, aggressive, cynical. The audience had to appreciate this. And, judging by the number of Audi orders accepted, they appreciated.

 

But I, as they say, did not hook. Somehow there were no strings in me, which was supposed to touch this large, deliberately expensive and pathos SUV. Surely there are others who have no Q7 does not cause adoration, but for some reason they were not called for the event, and I seemed to be the only one who did not like the car. Was.

 

Could I assume then that we would easily surrender to a personal meeting? I don’t even know what to explain this. Perhaps the technical perfection, which is reported by every detail of this car, or maybe just a modest charm for a long time, it has long been noticed that large material benefits magically affect our feelings and thoughts. One way or another, the Audi Q7 was enough for half an hour to completely disarm me. And he had two more days left to take his own. Although I no longer resisted ...

 

A predator is to a point. Bloody -bearing lizard! The evolution of the Audi company design gave rise to a creature with a monstrously expressive appearance. You look into these ominous eyes extended back, and an unpleasant chill runs around the back. Q7 directly fascinates with its bestial plastic. And it masks its own sizes well. The predatory muzzle and mowed rear racks, because of which the car resembles a carnivorous animal that fell on the hind limbs, conceals the true scale of the phenomenon. In fact, I have the largest European SUV - five meters nine centimeters from nose to tail. It is likely that this title will remain with Q7. In the near future, only Mercedes-Benz GL will be able to argue with him almost on equal terms, but it will be 6 mm shorter. And then the dinosaurs will die out.

 

But while the hydrocarbon sun is high, the Q7 will reign undividedly on the roads. And in the minds. The largest, the largest, most luxurious opening the wide door, you get there, not to the palace to the crest. Anyone who is similar to A8, the price expects to see a similar wealth with it will be a little disappointed. Inside, Q7 is unexpectedly democratic. The vast majority of interior details are from A6, the front panel with a combination of devices and the central console, for example, has moved almost unchanged. On the other hand, this bribes - from the inside it is not at all felt that pomp, which leaves the Q7, the train, the train is so thick that at least with slices is cut. Another one feels - confidence, calmness, reliability. All two days, surrounded by olive skin, aluminum and wooden veneer, this mood did not leave me.

 

It is unnecessary to say that ergonomics and the quality of the interior are beyond praise. Audi is an undoubted leader in this area too. All joints, seams, connections - mosquito will not flow. The location of the governing bodies is ideal for everyone and for everyone. Having set the goal of finding at least one puncture, I was close to failure, and in order to keep my face, I was forced to attribute to the minuses the button, on the command with which the servo drive opens a glove box - not one of the passengers could find it faster than one and a half minutes. Will it come?

 

With the MMI system, you find a common language almost immediately. It is only a pity that you have to communicate with it in English, they promise to Russify the system. In standard equipment, all Q7 have a MMI BASIC with a simplified set of functions and a narrow monochrome display. Recall that that familiar MMI offers a large color monitor and a lot of capabilities, a significant part of which (section Navigation and Info) is still inaccessible. However, even with the functions of MMI BASIC you can play out to many.

 

For example, configure the height of the lifting of the trunk door. By the way, you can open it in four different ways, but close it with one single way, using the button at the door of the door and the corresponding servo drive. The complete automation of the process is also explained by the designer whim - the heavy rear door envelops the hips of the car and, rising, takes with it hefty rear lights. Empty eye sockets in their place look very unusual.

 

Not the most spacious Audi trunk is a completely expected moment. The numbers, of course, are impressive - 775 and 2035 liters (depending on whether the seats of the second row are folded or not), but the live volume seems quite modest, taking into account the size of Q7. I must say that a significant part of the space under the floor and on the sides fed the air suspension, the third row of seats and separate climate control. The rear riders have not only their own microclimate control panels, but also a separate climatic installation - it is located in the left rear wall of the trunk, on the side of the passenger of the last row.

 

Oh, and the passenger is unenviable by this fate! To climb into your place through a narrow opening, putting up with a lack of civilization, dream of a shortening of the bereta bone and pray so that you will not be forgotten in a car. It’s good that the supply is decent in width. But I would even forbid these places to call these places. Referring to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. (Here it is worth noting that the manufacturer reports 28 options for configuration of the salon.)

 

Whether the second row is! It’s a pleasure to sit there. Even when the sofa is shifted until it stops forward, there is still so much space in front of the back of the front chair that you can safely take the eighth and ninth passenger to your knees.

 

But first, you need to finally leave this parking lot. I easily set up the seat for myself, insert the key into the lock and press the Start Engine button. Dudks! You can start the engine with a button only if the transponder key is in the cabin, but not inserted into the ignition lock. And if he put him in the well, please twist him.

 

With a juicy thoroughbred roar, a 4.2-liter eight came to life. The machine gun selector to the position of R. Back! It is good that before I managed to feel like an elephant in a bowl shop (how could you not mention the huge ears of the rear -view mirrors), a saving picture from the rear view camera broke out on the MMI screen and squeezed out zummers. Says Q7, all television cameras work ... In the closest places, he is unsafe for surrounding machines without these cameras. Maybe it’s even worth thinking about raising the OSAGO tariff for those Q7 owners who will not include parking sensors and rear view chamber.

 

Oddly enough, another weapon from the arsenal Q7 - Lift and Offroad pneumatic suspension modes will be appropriate in the city parking lot. Choosing one of them and waiting for the compressors to extend the car 24 cm above the road, you can safely take very high obstacles with an attack. And also scare away others - in full growth Q7 makes an indelible impression. But it is not recommended to drive in this position - the suspension is almost completely chosen by the hitch. It is better to go down to Comfort, and even better - in Automatic. Electronics will itself choose the degree of rigidity of the shock absorbers and the size of the road clearance, depending on the speed and condition of the road surface. It turns out that she has good. On the move, Q7 almost does not notice minor irregularities, however, on large ones it still reminds that Russian roads are equally bad for all cars, regardless of cost.

 

There is another Dynamic mode, in which Audi becomes a truly hard car and all the flaws of the road surface drives with distinct earlings and even knocks. But on the highway, the dynamic mode will be very useful.

 

The Q7 clinging to the asphalt canvas was quite simple and understandable to drive a car. A minimum of delay in reactions, maximum confidence. He simply does not pay attention to the rut, because it is much wider than her! Enjoying the perfectly configured amplifier, I rustling for no reason to the right, left, to the right to the OP! What kind of lights did these suddenly flashed on the hulls of rear -view mirrors? Ah yes, this is the Side Assist system, which with the help of a radar scans the blind zones during rebuilding and warns of the machines lurking there. Thank you, I see everything myself - I turn off the keyboard assistant on the driver's door.

 

Raming in an armchair and holding the steering wheel to one left, you can quietly reach 180 km/h and above. You remember a mass of 2.5 tons when you hit the brake pedal for the first time. Slow down, of course, turns out to be intense, and dose it is pleasant to a comfortable tight pedal. But the distance for braking should be chosen with a margin.

 

With such a mass (Q7 more than half a ton is heavier than A8 4.2) even an excellent V8 from the Audi RS4 - only right, nothing more. True, the motor is deformed from 420 to 350 hp, so you should not wait for the prohibitive dynamics from Q7, but it is impossible to imagine a situation in which traction or power will not be enough. And to what accompaniment there is acceleration - it is time to make it to the CD in the series The Best of!

 

A familiar 6-speed Tiptronic again confirmed his reenome of one of the best machines. And he again proved that manual therapy in this case is pure quantity. Freedom of gear shifts for the driver is limited by a considerable number of conditions - speed, engine speed, in general, is it necessary?

 

Better, smart electronics work, especially since at least one she manages is much better - to save fuel. Honestly shown by an on -board computer 20 liters per 100 km - these are only flowers. Berries grow at a gas station. Having cheated on the column on the light bulb, I did not carefully throw the tanker casually: a full tank. When the counter without hesitation counted first a thousand, and then one and a half thousand rubles, I nervously began to sort out banknotes in a wallet. Meanwhile, the monster was not going to interrupt his meal - he easily took more than 100 liters of 98th gasoline inside! Honestly, I thought - it will end. But no - Q7, well -fed and pleased, went on and did not fail to warn that after 615 km he was going to eat again. It remains only to thank Audi motorists - after all, thanks to FSI technology, fuel consumption in a 4.2 -liter eight decreased by 10%!

 

However, the real owner of the Q7 is unlikely to pay attention to this, and at first I enjoyed, swimming in the attention of others, but then I suddenly realized that the car itself, already flickering, by the way, on the Moscow streets, as much as my person is for interest. His steering wheel and again became awkward.

 

Perhaps we are too different, and in any case we will never be together. Therefore, the love of Q7 was never born. But great respect, slight fear and the same envy were born.

 

Audi Q7 prices and configurations

 

In Russia, Q7 in standard configuration costs $ 105 847. For this money, the client receives a car with a 4.2-liter engine, a 6-speed automatic, a spring suspension, 18-inch cast wheels, an ESP system with additional functions (ABS, EVB, ASR, ASR, ASR BA, Offroad modes, descent from the mountain, stabilization of the trailer, etc.), frontal, lateral and curtain airbags, MMI Plus system with a monochrome 6.5-inch display and a CD player, two-zone climate control, rear parking steering , chairs with mechanical adjustments, heating and fabric (cosmo) upholstery, central lock, electric grinders, bi-xenon headlights.

 

For an additional fee, you can order an MMI with a colored 7-inch display, air suspension, leather interpretation, aluminum or wooden decorative inserts, multifunctional steering wheel, seats, parking sensors in front and rear (with a rear view camera), a trunk system, trunk organizers, panoramic roof And much other, which will significantly raise the price of the car.

 

Audi Q7 is also proposed with a 3-liter diesel engine (233 hp). Its price in standard equipment is $ 76 965.
 
 

 

A source: Magazine Motor