The 2011 Audi A7 Sportback will drive into India in May!

2011 Audi A7 Sportback

For younger executives who find the Audi A6 a little too boring for their more colorful tastes, the sharply styled, alright for an Audi at least, A7 sportback might just be the answer. Spotted testing numerous times in Pune over the past few months, Audi India will finally pull the wraps off the 2011 Audi A7 Sportback and launch it in May, 2011. This car, that will take on the likes of the BMW GT and the Mercedes Benz CLS is expected to come with both a Diesel and a Petrol engine options.

2011 Audi A7 Sportback

The Diesel engine could be the 3 liter V6 TDI unit churning out about 245 Bhp of power and a gargantuan 500 Nm of twist force right from 1,400 rpm. Performance from the big diesel allied to Audi’s semi-automatic S-Tronic transmission with a quattro drivetrain system will obviously be good with all that torque at your disposal. How about a six and a half second nought to hundred sprint and an electronically limited 250 kph top whack?

2011 Audi A7 Sportback

Add a combined fuel efficiency of 16 KMPL+ nd you already know that the diesel variant is going to outsell the petrol right from the word go. Coming to the petrol engine, it could be the 3.0 TFSI V6 petrol producing 300 Bhp and 440 Nm, good for a sub 6 second nought to hundred run and a 250 Kph electronically limited top speed. Obviously, being a sweet V6 that likes to be revved hard to get it to whip up a storm, fuel consumption will be a lot higher than the frugal oil burner.

2011 Audi A7 Sportback

That said, petrolheads simply would love a sweet petrol V6 engine, and with a turbocharger-supercharger combine working away under the hood, the petrol V6′s drivability is also top notch. Equipment levels will be sky high with even the Bang and Olufsen audio system looking like a work of art, with all that sculpting and the works. So expect to be ensconced in luxury as good if not better than what the competition has to offer.

2011 Audi A7 Sportback

Finally, we come to the crucial pricing bit. The Audi A7 Sportback could cost upwards of INR 60-65 Lakh for the base variant with the prices more or less in the BMW 5 Series GT territory. So, May 2011 it is, when the A7 Sportback will officially be launched in Gandhiland.