Spies break first pics of totally new Audi A7 that will go against the Mercedes CLS-Side view

Audi of Ingolstadt will release this fall a concept car for the upcoming new Audi A7. However, already now – although the production version is not expected to be due before 2009 - first mules of the four door coupe have been sighted taking repeated laps at Germany’s trace track Nürburgring. The prototype can be distinguished from its wider fenders, bigger tyres and expensive alloy wheels - painted black. The production car will get a luxury style four seat interior, frameless doors, a glass roof, and offers a choice of six different fuel and Diesel V6 and V8 engines, and for the top of the line version the Lamborghini V10.

This new model by Audi will aim directly at the competitor Mercedes CLS, which became a best seller recently, due to the fact that Daimler-Chrysler is still the only one with this type of car on the market. Therefore, not only Audi but also Jaguar and Volkswagen are striving to get a rival up and going soonest. Jaguar’s will be the upcoming XJ replacement, and Volkswagen is developing a Passat-based coupe with four frameless doors, too

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three2four - 6/9/2006 8:09:25 PM

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Audi better go back to the drawing board with this one if they expect to take sales away form the mercedes cls. This one really missed the mark.

MercBasher - 6/9/2006 11:45:55 PM

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Not nearly as coupe-like and sexy as the Mercedes CLS. I question whether there is really a market for this kind of vehicle, sales of the M-B CLS collapsed after the introduction of the S Class. Is this vehicle segment really worth the engineering effort?

chewy - 6/10/2006 6:22:28 PM

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This is a pretty bad photoshop of one of the first official A6 photos relesed. I guarantee that the A7 will look much better.

this is the original picture