The silhouette of the upcoming A7 has been teased by Audi and it looks about as you’d expect, but that’s not really a bad thing.
The handsome Sportback line still dominates the design, but we’ll know more about the details when it’s fully revealed on October 19.
While we weren’t ever really expecting a wild departure from the current A7 – the A8 alerted us to the evolutionary nature of Marc Lichte’s design philosophy—we had a preview of what the car would look like when a scale model leaked a few weeks ago.
That model, as well as Lichte himself, let us know that the new A7’s grille would follow the A8’s angular design. In that interview, Lichte said, though, that the A7’s grille would be a little sharper to reflect the sharper driving dynamics.
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Spy photos have also revealed that the taillights, like the A8, will follow across the whole rear of the car. They won’t be exactly the same, though, since the actual light design looks a little different and there doesn’t appear to be a chrome design line cutting across it, either.
More information will be available when the car is revealed on Thursday, but we expect to see a 3.0-liter turbocharged engine, a 4.0-liter V8 twin-turbo, a 2.9-liter twin-turbo V6 making 500 horsepower, and an RS7 that could reportedly make up to 700 hp.
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