The Mercedes-Benz CLS, a fitted tux to the off-the-rack E-class sedan on which it’s based, is iconic, having pried open the niche for executive-class four-seaters with cut-down greenhouses and arresting good looks. Despite the CLS’s decade on the My high school French teacher (circa 2000) drove a pearl white A4 quattro, and while it was by far the Click photo for larger version. Next to this Audi, the all-new 2012 CLS looks bulbous and a little ungainly. Walk around our A7, so low its fenders The new 2012 Audi A7 is based on the redesigned A6 sedan, and offers welcome versatility and lots of style. It's pricier than the A6, though, and seats only four passengers. Strong and efficient engine; distinctive styling; more cargo versatility than a If the Mercedes CLS invented the concept of a sedan leaping up one rung on the coolness chart to a "coupe," then it has a new competitor in town: the Audi A7 takes two leaps. Don't say the words out loud, but it's a hatchback station wagon. One that Power: 310hp, 325 lb.-ft. Fuel Economy: 18 city, 28 hwy Price as tested: $83,500 I may be a liberal in the voting booth, but when it comes to my automobiles, you can color me a staunch conservative. Nine times out of 10, I'll pick the manual transmission As we rolled to a stop at an intersection downtown, Matthew Cooper and I counted the number of heads that turned to get a better look at the 2012 Audi A7. “There’s one,” Cooper said, indicating a professionally dressed man who attempted to be subtle .
Automakers seem to have become smitten with the practice of slicing and dicing new-car segments into smaller niches in recent years like so many soft-drink varieties. How else to explain genres like the “four door coupe,” of which the 2012 Enter the Audi A7. At first glance, the A7 looks like any other sedan. Only after prolonged scrutiny of the Audi's rearmost sheet metal does one notice the C-pillar sloping at a much more gradual angle—far from the plump derrière of the Panamera or 5 Audi claims that one small strip (1.2 inches wide, 0.08 inch thick) of the high-strength, lightweight, hot-shaped steel used in much of the new A7 Sportback's body is so strong that it could suspend five A7s, each one roughly 4000 pounds. That's one strong .
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