Test Drive Audi Q7 2006 - 2009 SUV

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A certain creature rose on his two hind limbs, and then dropped again into four wheels. Technique will reach such perfection that a person will be able to do without himself. In these two Aphorisms of Stanislav Jerzy Les, according to the chief editor of the autopilot Nikolai Fomenko, the whole of the automotive evolution. The new Audi Q7 is difficult to recognize its final vertex. As it is difficult not to admit that this car is closest to the ultimate goal.
 
Audi Kuket Iron, while Q7 is still hot. The production of a new SUV increases from 50 to 70 thousand cars per year. The offer, according to the old economic law, is growing after demand. Already for the first quarter of this year, Q7 managed to collect 16,000 orders in the world. In Russia, orders for a car are accepted from January 30, 2006. The official premiere of access to the domestic market, as in the rest of Europe, was held on March 23. In a short period, more than 600 customers have made their choice in favor of the cult Audi Q7. In 2006, Audi plans to implement 2000 SUVs Audi Q7 in Russia, promised the head of Audi of Russia Oscar Akhmedov.
See who came. I will say without false modesty: I am the first owner of Audi Q7 in Russia. And this explains a lot. We are waiting that I am now a ruin on the pages of sweet molasses, telling about this car? Oh well.
No. For a start, I will tell you how I got the right of the first marriage night. The right was implemented in the city of sin, built by Audi on Danilovsky textile manufactories for the presentation Q7. There was no better act in my opinion in the capital. Cool. Stunningly. Towered and unclosed. And not in the usual style of Audi High-Tech. And in the style of comics. What Russia is more suitable. Our life is a solid comic.
 
People are more than on demonstrations. Everywhere the screens on which the commercial is twisted. Mouzon pierces membranes and heart. There are some vampires, strippers and just friki. Porechenkov from the scene is no worse than Levitan announces: but it is - Q7! On a long corridor, driven by people, on legs and bodies at a speed of one kilometer in two hours Audi Q7 is presented to the scene. To, standing there for a few minutes, leave in an unknown direction. Many of those who came, including the Vips, did not see cars. They could not get to her. We were lucky with Vasilyev. We were on stage. The head of Audi Oscar Akhmedov handed us the keys to the first Q7 (by the way, I insist on our priority only by the right of seniority, according to the alphabet - the championship for Leshey). We even sat in Q7 and photographed. On this movie ended.
I want something, I do not know what. I hope Audi will not be offended at me if I reveal a little secret. Especially since people of our circle, probably, and so in the course. Those Q7 that we presented at the event, not those Q7 on which we are going to worry happy driver moments. Indeed, we ordered your cars back in January and now we are waiting for them to receive SiF Moskau. Machines will be with full minced meat. I ordered myself and panoramic, of three sections, the roof of Open Sky, which seems to be starting from the hood and roll somewhere in the trunk. And the system of assistance during the restraints of the Side Assist, helping to detect the likely enemy within a radius of 50 meters and fully solving the support problem. I hope no secret services will be entangled with its circulars its electronic brains. Well, I turned on the list of welcome options. Although more likely, the Rhine's waves will flow back, which I really come in handy. Body color is a subject of separate pride. Color is absolutely new even for Audi. It was not yet on any model. This color starts to paint Q7. While the only instance can be seen only in Munich Audi Forum. I would call the mother of pearl asphalt. You go crazy as beautiful.
 
I confess, the appearance of Q7 liked me so much that for the sake of one design I changed my beloved and so often with a BMW X5 me. The new X5, by the way, has already seen, and he did not seem to me. In any case, Q7 he clearly loses. Feeling inside the car is: you are sitting in the eight of the Audi made on the indochil. All European Research Institutes and Half of the German Electronic Industry worked on electronics. I felt like inside a huge computer. Q7 is the motherboard on the wheels. I was amazed by learning that in the filling of the car - about fifty different blocks with a memory of 90 megabytes. In this regard, Q7 - fiction. Full ahead. From the promgesibas, there is not only a damn of bald. Even voice control telephone, audio stands. Awesome navigation. A stunning rear view camera, ready to draw the correct trajectory of movement on the display.
 
Pretty something - it's like to rave with fat. That is - my case. I have no habit of managing audio system or other things using the buttons on the steering wheel. In Q7 it seemed to me the more uncomfortable, because there almost all possible functions are clogged into one button on the ram. You have to be distracted by the display to understand what you left there. So it's easier than the MMI washer to do.
 
I think the Q7 is a car for Americans and taking into account their tastes. The interior on the layout is almost a tank, where there are two nests in front. One thing - for the driver, another - for the arrow. The tunnel between the driver and the front passenger is huge. It is clear: there was a lot of things to be placed on it. But if I want to touch the girl behind the knee - I do not say that for the right, at least for the left - it is hardly for me it will work out. Harassment will not pass.
Q7 reminded me of Ford Explorer in configuration Eddie Bauer. Seat thin. And I have not figured out, it's good or bad. On the one hand, there is no massiveness and mobility of the furniture from the Grand. On the other, there is no hint of a fortress. Maybe this is such a designer sur. We, injector, and non-doom.
Power solution. Combining the top pack, I, as it should be assumed to a person with a labile psyche and a client with an irrepressible shopping item, nevertheless, I try to change something in it. And this is something - the engine. Initially, I asked the gasoline engine 4.2 FSI. And Vasilyev is a 3-liter diesel. And I feel, I gave Mahu. Diesel is better. Not from the point of view of saving money. And from the point of view of saving time to move from one gas station to another. As for working moments ...
 
As for working moments, now we recently did with a colleague for TV test of one model from the garage of the Audi competitors. Gasoline against diesel. Situation - Czech Autodrome Bridge. The diesel engine showed itself more worthy. Well, let them play a little to him. But still. Traction is almost all the time in the area of \u200b\u200b6000 revolutions. Pickup anywhere. Unlike a gasoline unit, where you only cover the gas, so everything falls at all, diesel continues to stand. I think in a diesel competition with a gasoline Q7 result will be similar. And if so, why pay more?
 
Not everyone will understand me. Someone will even throw a stone. The first will certainly be the one who already guess the purchase of a six hundred Q7 with the W12 engine. In that such a car sooner or later should appear, there is no doubt. But this is not my game. Let others cut, how to install a record speeds on the third transport. Or how to sink Shumacher's leg and attract it into your Kalina. I believe that Q7 does not need excessive power. His power (even in the diesel version) is enough. This is a car for riding in the city. Let's say, go on it to the long suburbs for mushrooms - stupid. It's like putting the evening costume from Moschino and go dig potatoes. Also stupid will play for its steering wheel in the FIA \u200b\u200bGT, Le Mans Endurance or Indi Car.
 
Why is it W12 or even 4.2 FSI? To quickly leave all from the traffic light? So everything will go equally. All Cayes, He Fifth and Taways. Left will leave with friends, gazelles and kamazami. Because, having escaped on the bumper forward, after a minute they will disappear into another traffic light. Or in bumper car, in front of which thousands of others are puffed. To get a buzz from Duri W12, it is necessary to spend on the Moscow Ring Road, having grown all the other machines with asphalt. Q7 is a serious, solidolla car. Not hound.
And then W12 is the last walker of motorists in front of a well-deserved pension. Because further need new people creating new engines for new fuels. What it will be for the substance, no longer important. Helium 3, hydrogen, bird litter ... But the end of the oil era is obviously inevitable.
The production of AUDI Q7 is a process on four. The main elements of the body and many nodes are manufactured at the Audi plants in Germany - in Ingolstadt and Nearsulm. Power units for Q7 are prepared at the Hungarian plant in Gian. The final assembly is carried out on the conveyor in Bratislava. Audi Q7 from young, and early. In the sense that he only appeared in car dealerships, and all sorts of prizes and prizes have already become enough. For example, Bild Am Sonntag called Q7 the best car among SUVs and awarded the golden steering wheel. There is no doubt that in Russia the car will receive their gold in the form of a steering wheel, Klason, Pegasus, etc.
These are not taken to astronauts. For the first time I saw Q7, I decided that he was able not only to ride, but also to fly. So I'll press the button, and the wings will come out of the car. A person is peculiar from greater than even greater. And the aesthetics Q7 overshadows the mind. That is, a voluntaristic effort is required to understand one simple thing: if you want such a beauty and drove with a speed of 600 km / h yes accelerated to hundreds in one second, yes Tekhchiny languages \u200b\u200btwisted in a couple of moments, then this is not here. This is you, Milk, on Baikonur. There you will pick up the jade, and the device.
But Q7 is not for space, but for the Earth. Of course, there is a certain contradiction between the image aggressiveness and the actual character of the car. With so much electronics, you feel like a Vietnamese pilot, whose hands hurt, because all the time they beat them, so that nothing touched. In general, everything goes to driver rudimentation. This stupid biomass only slows down the complete automation process. The driver is prepared for the role of Appendix. He sat in the salon. Fastened. And said Briefly: Home! After that, the car makes something there on the electronic adverition of the biel-pain-pain type, will determine its position on the ball on the ball, will find a coincidence in computer memory with the word home and go home.
 
Perhaps some auxiliary systems can still be disabled. I have not yet fully read the talmud for use. But for now ... I'm chasing at speed, suppose 140 km / h and I want to stop dramatically. This is not so easy. First, the mass of the car of the world. Secondly, the brake pedal does not give an informative answer. The ABS begins to work immediately - on dry, on wet asphalt, in the sand. Thirdly, you can't support yourself in braking. Get off the fourth, for example, the first will not work. While the turns will not fall to the desired limit, you even overlay. And all because the standard tiptronic is left on Q7. And it is clear that manual mode here is an element of decor. As, however, both in Touareg, Cayenne and many other machines. Well, of course, I ordered my head petals. But only in order, I repent, that familiar say: Oh, Kolyan, it's cool! It is like in a real racing wheelbarrow.
Another urgentness, in my opinion, is a pneumatic suspension. No, it's great that she has five modes. What can you go to Comfort, and you can do in Dynamic. Well, that you can change the clearance by lifting the car in the range from 150 to 240 mm. But quick riding the pneumatic suspension accurately interferes. The question is a swing. In this regard, Q7 is VW Touareg. Here we came with the photographer with a snake, and he flew through the salon, like a piece of pizza. Although fear that Q7 will turn over, I still did not have. Here on the standard Tuareg was afraid.
 
A ride on Q7 will have to get used to. You need to steer here with a slight advance. What is natural in the car of such a mass and such dimensions. It is even on the asphalt as if you work in the snow. You turned right, and then sent the steering wheel to the left, but the car is still going to the right. And it should be foreseen. When you own Q7 for a long time, it's easy. With unusual - difficult.
Single. He came to take his own. For Audi Q7, this is too modest slogan. I am sure that in America, and in Russia Q7 will take not only his own, but also someone else's. Until the end of 2008, Q7 no one will catch up. Sales This will be an unconditional leader. Because it is a completely new car. Not restyling. Not face lifting. One thing will provide a model such a crazy popularity that he will take and take his own and someone else's imagination and empty the wallets. One such wallet I know.
 
The actual tactical and technical characteristics of the AUDI Q7 are already recognized as insufficient some of its first owners. So tuning for Q7 is inevitable, as a demob for a soldier. The German tuning atelier Je Design and Abt-Sportsline among the first suggested the program of bringing Q7 to mind. However, the proposal for reconfiguration of the engine concerns only 3-liter turbodiesel. Je Design for 1149 euros increases power up to 285 hp, and overclocking up to one hundred to 8.4 s. ABT-SportsLine for 1740 euros changes the standard 233 hp up to 272 hp Did not forget the masters tuning and about external influence. In the drier kit - the front bumper with dual fog lights, spoilers, extended wheeled arches, thresholds, cilia on the front headlights, dual exhaust and alloy wheels with dimension from 20 to 22 inches.

Text Nikolay Fomenko, photos Andrei Danilov

Audi Q7.
 
Engine gasoline 4.2 V8 FSI diesel 3.0 V6 TDI
Working volume (cube. Cm) 4163 2967
Power (hp at rpm) 350 at 6800 233 at 4000
Moment (nm at rpm) 440 at 3500 500 at 1750-2750
The drive is permanent full
Transmission automatic 6-speed Tiptronic
Length / Width / Height (mm) 5086/1983/1737
Wheel base (mm) 3002
Mass Curb (kg) 2240 2295
Acceleration up to 100 km / h (c) 7.4 9.1
Maximum speed (km / h) 248 216
Fuel consumption (l / 100 km) 13.6 10.5
Basic price in Moscow $ 107 673 $ 76 965

AUTODORE: I write these lines in Moscow, just a very good car at the editorial office, but an incredibly chumazy: in the capital Sleakly and, as usual, disgustingly dirty. Audi engineers say that they specifically watered Q7 mud in the same aerodynamic tube, seeking the side windows to remain transparent. Looking at today's Moscow streets, I unwittingly doubt that any, let the most brilliant design decision can effectively resist our unclean reality. Wash the roads, and the estimates are competent! In Germany, on Q7, I left Munich in the morning, in the rain, then got on the mountain roads in the snow, then passed a special off-road track, under the evening I rolled down dry autobans and for all this time only a couple of times I used the glass fluid! In Moscow, I sometimes lack 6 liters per day.
CLAXSON: how is the magnificent Q7 on the asphalt! And it does not matter - it is dry, wet or snowy. The car literally passes on the road! The tires are lipped to asphalt. Refusal from various devices that increase the permeability (read, rejection of excess iron), allowed to make a more profitable wave, bring it to the standards of passenger models. In turnings, the steering wheel is flooded with noticeable severity - much more tangible than on A6 and A8. This is done, apparently, for the sake of security, so that the driver is fully felt a huge car. Therefore, on a winding track, you experience a buzz from accuracy and grace, with which the commodine Q7 literally licks turns.
www.uk.cars.yahoo.com: I have always liked ALLROAD, a pragmatic vehicle, which was more than sufficient to drive along a moderate off-road and left a pleasant impression on the highway. The pneumatic suspension could turn your cozy car in the dirtier without any negative connotations with large cars 4x4. Allroad was a smart quintessence of the Audi brand, his image. Calm, pragmatic, firmly made and slightly restrained car. Q7 is a bit tougher, although it is far from a militarist warehouse. He is definitely big. Q7 built on the elongated version of the Volkswagen Touareg platform and has seven places that is ideal for large families. If you can refuse the mentality of the dirt conqueror and instead will think about Q7 as a wagon growth hormone on hormones, you will be tied to this car much faster.
AUTOEXPRESS: So, what led Q7 to SUV? Well, actually this is the largest European SUV that you can buy. Five meters long and shortly two meters wide, Q7 is spacious as a cave. The standard is a seven-party car, but if you do not lay the rear two seats, then it is not clear what point in the luggage compartment ...
Audi boldly declares that Q7 is the most dynamic in the 4x4 car market. Audi also says that Q7 is able to crush even X5, it is easy to compare with Cayenne, and as for the Range Rover Sport, it is not even a comparison. By the way, we know a tricky path near Ingolstadt, there is snowball there, and the ice chassis, and it is there that the chassis machine can show their abilities at low speeds. I actually do not attract me flying from 2240 kilograms at high speed ...

The car is provided by Auda Russia, (495) 234-0233.
We thank the Russian automotive federation and the administration of TK Western for help in organizing shooting.
 

Source: "Autopilot"