Test drive Audi Q7 2006 - 2009 SUV

Another very, very, very good steak

Usually you wait for the novelty for a test drive with impatience, and as loud as the Audi Q7 with double. So I was waiting for the Russian Audi Q7 test with a V8 4.2 FSI gasoline engine. Well, judge for yourself: Q7 is legendary, as stated in a press release, a crossover with outstanding characteristics. In fact, who does not want to join the legend, especially when advertising on every corner shouts that the legend came to take its own.
Outwardly, the Audi Q7 is not at all like a tank, but when you look at it, there are no other associations. It looks larger than Hummer (both the second and third), the pathos Range Rover or the subop -former athlete with the appearance of the troll (according to the apt remark of one very famous auto -journalist) Porsche Cayenne. Maybe it's all about the Black Audi Q7 color, a real monster, and silver is already more like a car. It scares children less and more like white collars. This cold look of squinted xenon eyes and muscular body contours are able to convince anyone here is power and mind, and their (their blood) is better to give immediately and without conversations. Which many do, enrolling in a queue of 7 months long. And I want to believe that these many in the garage already have Alfa Romeo and Land Rover and, say, Lotus ...
Thank God, successfully rolling out Q7, without breaking and not mutilating the car, I returned to the city in thought. Several times it was routinely exceeding the speed, crawling along the conditional off-road in the vicinity of the New Riga under the authentic cries of Latinos Zak de la Rocky from the speakers of Bose and famously pushing the paths of the water protection zone of the Ruza reservoir (I do not experience remorse, I am sure of the ECOVE ECOVELICAL NEEDS INTERY-4 ) And having made sure that this Audi, by and large, can everything within the framework given by the city lifestyle of decency, I began to remember what this car surprised me. He tried and could not. Everything would be much easier if this tank was made by lazy Italians from Fiat or, without resentment, crooked fellows from AvtoVAZ, or even qualitatively impeccable Koreans from Hyundai. But no, Q7 is typically German and therefore 100% predictable in the sense of praise the product.
Indeed, to talk about how good the next car from Audi is for more than 100 thousand dollars in details as strange as to paint the taste sensations from the Gudman steak for $ 100. For this money, you are simply obliged to make a good steak, and this is not surprising. The Audi Q7 is not surprising in the same way, and nothing. This is just a very good car, the product is another well -fried steak.
Well, tell me, amazing, in the good old, good interdess differential Torsen, who scatters the torque between the axes in a ratio of 40/60? What is unique to a 4.2-liter V-shaped motor of aluminum with a capacity of 350 hp, which pulls as if not 350, but 700 horses in it? Nothing: all FSI engines are distinguished by excellent thrust and phenomenal elasticity. From 0 to 100 in 8 seconds very good. And from 100 to 200 more in 20 seconds is great! And what is unusual in a 6-speed machine, which sorts through the transmission so that you can guess about changing the step only by seeing the number of the inclined gear on the dashboard? What is surprising is that the pneumatic suspension does everything as it should be clamped at high speed and makes the driving more athletic, and on the off -road lifts the belly of the car 240 mm above the ground? What is strange, unusual, and therefore so valuable in a series of automobile experiences is that the MMI cartoon interface is completely Russified and is still more convenient than Idrive on BMW? What can surprise a magnificent leather interior with a mass of adjustments and massage, the Side Assist strip system of a safe shift of the Side Assist flash bulb in the side of the side mirrors, warning of the undesirable rebuilding? Or a new, not disconnected ESP, which itself decides which wheel to slow down, how and where to throw the torque? On steep descents, an electronic collar helps, which holds the car at minimum speed ... But for some reason, all these options do not give birth to character. What is exceptional in that with folded rear seats in the salon three mountain bicycles and several more voluminous suitcases from Louis Vutto the volume of the trunk in this form are two cubic meters more than more? Even the additional seats of the third row do not surprise, well, maybe only because they are intended for fearless children who are ready to sit as far as possible from parents on a gallery in the trunk further only a dog. I so wanted to be surprised and say: yes! cool! But Q7 did not give me a reason.
Hand on the heart, the car surprises only one and the same differs from many other cars in the Audi lineup with the absence of a bright nature and the same that no longer attracts attention. This is a very high -quality product, designed for its target audience of Americans. A large, powerful, capable of comforting both drivers and his family of seven people. It so historically happened that America, imperceptibly acquired itself with a bulletproof complex of fullness, and this was reflected even in the next technological masterpiece of the Germans who created Q7 under the American market. Q7 car for a perfect person, Homo sapiens without flaws. A means of transportation for an athlete, musician, polyglot, the FSB specialty, the FBI and Mosad, and for those who do not experience any strong emotions in relation to cars, neither love nor hatred. A unique car, which is difficult to possess in love, just like sincerely and at first sight it is difficult to love a supermodel, and just as distinguishing one supermodel from another. It is possible to possess it only for considerations of status, although now, six months after the start of sales, after the Q7 no one will turn his head, and the status will go unnoticed. After all, no one remembers how many well -fried steaks he ate this year.
  

Text: Leonid Pavlov. Photo: Dmitry Malygin.
Specifications
Body
Body type 5-door station wagon
The number of places is 5/7
Trunk volume, l 775/2035
Equipped mass, kg 2240
Full mass, kg 2895
Length, mm 5086
Width, mm 1983
Height, mm 1737
Wheel base, mm 3002
Road clearance, mm 165-240
Engine
Type of gasoline, with direct fuel injection
Front location, longitudinally
Location and number of cylinders V8
Working volume, cm 4163
Cylinder diameter/piston stroke, mm 84.5/92.8
The degree of compression is 12.5
The number of valves per cylinder 4
Maximum power, L.S./rpm 350/6800
Maximum torque, Nm/rpm 440/3500
Transmission
Gearbox 6-speed, automatic Tiptronic with DSP dynamic program and sports regime
The drive of the QUATTRO constant all -wheel drive with a self -locking differential Torsen
Front suspension adaptive pneumatic suspension with a variable road clearance
Rear suspension adaptive pneumatic suspension with variable road clearance
Front brakes disk, ventilated
Rear brakes disk, ventilated
Tires 255/55R18
Dynamics
Maximum speed, km/h 248
Acceleration time 0-100 km/h, with 7.4
Fuel consumption, l/100 km
city cycle 19.5
country cycle 10.2
mixed cycle 13.6
Fuel tank capacity, l 100
Fuel AI-95 gasoline
    
  
 
   
   
   
   
 

A source: Carclub.ru