2025 Audi Q7, SQ7: Up to date luxurious SUV confirmed for Australia

The present-generation Audi Q7 is sort of a decade outdated, however the Ingolstadt model is squeezing out just a few extra years of it with one other facelift.

The 2025 Audi Q7 and SQ7 are due in Australia within the second half of 2024, that includes refreshed exterior styling and varied tech upgrades.

Up to date entrance finish styling features a new grille design, restyled entrance bumper with reshaped air intakes, in addition to redesigned headlights. This styling varies relying on whether or not you go for an everyday or S line Q7, or the sportier SQ7.

The redesigned headlights can be found with both LED, Matrix LED or HD Matrix LED expertise, the lattermost that includes laser high-beam at speeds above 70km/h.

The HD Matrix LED headlights additionally function digital daytime operating gentle signatures, permitting the person to pick one among 4 totally different gentle signatures through the infotainment touchscreen.

Down again, there are new non-compulsory Digital OLED tail lights with 4 selectable gentle designs.

Audi says it has “systematically lowered the ornamental parts” for a extra “purist” look, whereas base and S line variations are distinguished with the previous that includes colour-contrasted bumper and door trim and the latter going for a extra monochromatic look.

Non-compulsory Black and Plack Plus packages convey black accents across the grille, in addition to on the bumpers and across the aspect home windows.

Different exterior modifications embrace new 20-, 21– and 22-inch wheel designs; new Sakhir Gold, Ascari Blue and Chili Pink exterior finishes; new Pure Elm Burl Silver, Matte Brushed Aluminium, and Matte Carbon Twill ornamental inside inlays; and seats with contrasting stitching.

The MIB 3 infotainment system means that you can obtain sure well-liked third-party apps like Spotify from an app retailer and use them with out connecting Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, whereas the Digital Cockpit digital instrument cluster shows extra data corresponding to different highway customers and distance and lane change warnings.

The powertrain vary is unchanged.

The 45 TDI encompasses a 3.0-litre turbo-diesel V6 engine producing 170kW of energy and 500Nm of torque, good for a 0-100km/h time of seven.1 seconds.

The 50 TDI has a higher-output model of this engine with 210kW and 600Nm, slashing the 0-100km/h time to six.1 seconds.

Essentially the most inexpensive petrol possibility is the 55 TFSI, packing a 3.0-litre turbocharged V6 engine producing 250kW and 500Nm and boasting a 0-100km/h time of 5.6 seconds.

All Q7 fashions function an eight-speed computerized transmission, quattro everlasting all-wheel drive, and a 48V mild-hybrid system, and boast 3500kg towing capability.

The flagship SQ7 TFSI encompasses a 4.0-litre twin-turbocharged petrol V8 producing 373kW and 770Nm, good for a 0-100km/h time of 4.1 seconds.

The V8 options cylinder deactivation, permitting it to run on simply 4 cylinders. Like the opposite engines, it’s mated with an eight-speed computerized and quattro everlasting all-wheel drive.

The SQ7’s non-compulsory superior suspension bundle brings Audi’s sport differential for torque vectoring, plus electromechanical energetic roll stabilisation.

The present, second-generation Q7 was revealed in 2015, with an up to date model revealed in 2019.

Final yr, Audi offered 1961 examples of the Q7 and SQ7 in Australia – greater than the Volvo XC90 (1299 gross sales), however behind rivals just like the Mercedes-Benz GLE (2535) and BMW X5 (3682).

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