Audi A7 Sportback due in late 2010

Audi has not cancelled any of its models but has merely postponed some for later launch dates. The leaked rollout schedule published in December 2007 says the Audi A5 Sportback will arrive in September 2009. That appears to be spot-on. What it also says is that the A7 was scheduled for release in June 2009. However this did not happen.

The Audi A7 will be sharing some design elements with the A5 Sportback but is positioned higher than that. Effectively it will compete with cars like the Mercedes-Benz CLS, the Porsche Panamera and the Aston Martin Rapide.

Shaped like a coupe in the sense that it features a narrow window line and a coupe-like roof line, the A7 is unlike conventional sports coupes because, like the aforementioned cars it has four entry doors and not two. It also only has sitting space for four adults instead of five. Engine will be a new supercharged 3.0 liter V6 that used in A6 and the S4/S5.

Audi A7 Sportback Concept

Audi will show the Audi Sportback Concept during the 2009 North American International Auto Show in Detroit anytime soon. The Sportback Concept represents the future four door 2+2 coupe Audi A7 which will be larger than the current Audi A6 and will go into production by mid-2010.

The Audi A7 Sportback Concept features Audi’s design cues such as the LED headlamps and the front grille. The Sportback is built on Audi’s new modular longitudinal build kit (LBK) which could be adjusted for length, width and height depending on the required application. The same chassis setup is expected to be used by future large Audi vehicles. Besides that, the fastback roofline of the Sportback suggested that it could be a full blown hatchback.

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However there is not further details of the Audi Sportback Concept but from the net, the car is powered by a 3.0 liter TFSI turbocharged engine that found in the A6 and a 5.0 liter twin turbo V10 engine that found in the Audi RS6