2020 Audi S7

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Published on February 27, 2020 11:00:06 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfz78Qw_dRA

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There’s a happy medium between performance and practicality – at least that’s what the Audi S line of vehicles tries to achieve. A bit spicier than the base A models, but shy of the fully-leaded RS line, the S cars are a necessary intermediary for the brand. This balancing act is a hard stunt to pull off, and admittedly not every Audi S car is great. But the 2020 Audi S7 is a different story, and a spirited drive along a California mountain road is the receipt.
But before getting carried away with superlatives and compliments, some context. The S7 is not a cheap date – it starts at $83,900. That’s a full ten grand over the mechanically identical and more practical S6 sedan. Spend enough time ticking option boxes and the S7 jumps into six-figure territory.
In the simplest terms, it’s a matter of emotional appeal. There’s a presence to the S7 that the decidedly more pedestrian S6 can’t match. Make the jump from six to seven and you end up with the perfect Audi S car: a good-looking, pleasant-on-road, much better product than its A sibling.

In place of the A7’s turbocharged 3.0-liter V6 is a twin-turbocharged 2.9-liter V6. Both engines include an electric compressor powered by the on-board 48-volt mild-hybrid system, though power jumps from 335 in the A7 to 444 horsepower here. Torque improves by a hearty 74 pound-feet, up from 369 to 443. Audi also replaced the seven-speed dual-clutch in the A7 with an eight-speed automatic (also found in the RS models). An Audi product planner tells us the eight-speed better manages all that torque. Remember, the S7’s biggest selling point over the A7 is the engine upgrade, so this V6 has to be good. And it is.

With a big, all-wheel drive sedan like the S7, the topic of understeer immediately comes to mind, especially on these twisty roads. Audi baked its retort to the car pushing wide around turns into the $4,000 S Sport Package, offering all-wheel steering and a sport differential. As in other cars, the all-wheel steering enables the rear tires to turn in just slightly, shortening the S7’s turning radius. And that trick rear differential shuffles extra torque to the outside rear wheel during cornering as needed, also cutting down on understeer.
With both axles steering the car, turn-in feels extremely sharp. Even though some amount of understeer is inevitable in an all-wheel drive car of with this big of a footprint, the S7 bombs around high-speed corners happily. The aforementioned systems add up to make this big sedan feel much smaller than it really is.

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