One Of These Audis Is Not Like The Other…
Published: June 28th, 2010
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Audi’s new A8 and a prototype of its upcoming “four-door coupe” cousin, the A7, get caught looking mighty similar by Auto Motor und Sport’s Erlkönig spy photographers. And though it’s unfair to judge prototypes too harshly, the Nürburgring footage at AM und S reveals an A7 that leans in the sweepers and looks confused in kinks. With the rumors of an S7 and RS7 sporting the R8’s V8 and V10 respectively floating around, one hopes that Audi gets the chassis sorted quick smart. The A7 has to offer something besides worse rear headroom.
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That paintjob makes it look like the love-child of a '69 Bug and an Ewok.
apart from the now discredited SUV craze and the customized van craze of the 70s, the current four-door coupe fashion comes close in terms of impracticality and the elevation of aesthetics and image over everything else. automakers are taking perfectly good sedans and then chopping their roofs, making the cars less comfortable, but then charging extra money. YET, people are paying big money for these compromised sedans.
Those side by side photos make me think of the Audi designs before the upside down trapezoid became the Audi theme. I really liked the way the Audi 80 and 90 front looked. I guess that billboard front makes passing the pedestrian safety requirements easier, but still. Now I know how the Europeans must have felt when the Federal bumper standards required 5 mph bumpers. The resulting flood of imported cars with black accordion rubber was pretty dismal.
"The A7 has to offer something besides worse rear headroom." Rear headroom is a small sacrifice to pay for style.