Audi A7 C7: history, engines, S7, RS 7 and buying guide

The Audi A7 C7 is the first-generation Audi A7, sold as the A7 Sportback: a four-seat, five-door fastback built at Neckarsulm in Germany from 2010 and replaced by a new A7 in 2018. It shares its platform and engines with the C7 A6 but has its own body, a powered tailgate over a 535-litre boot and a spoiler that rises at speed; every engine at launch was a V6, and the S7 and RS 7 added twin-turbo V8s. Volkswagen's annual reports count 205,689 A7s built between 2010 and 2017.

Audi aimed the A7 C7 at the Mercedes-Benz CLS. The fastest version, the 605PS RS 7 performance of 2015, reached 62mph in 3.7 seconds; in October 2026 the cheapest first-generation A7 on the first page of PistonHeads' adverts was a 2012 diesel at £4,995.

Audi A7 C7 design and engineering

Autocar placed the A7 in a niche between the A6 and the A8 luxury saloon. The Audi A7 C7 is 4.97m long, 1.91m wide and 1.42m high, on a 2.91m wheelbase. Autocar's July 2010 report put that at 17cm shorter and 4cm lower than the A8, with a wheelbase about 8cm longer than the A6 of the day; the next A6, the C7, was built on the same platform.

Body, dimensions, spoiler and weight

The A7 C7 does without the A8's aluminium spaceframe, but its doors, bonnet, tailgate, front bulkhead and a crossmember in the boot are aluminium, said Autocar, which gave the front-wheel-drive car's kerb weight as 1,695kg, more than 100kg lighter than a Mercedes CLS 350 CDI. Audi's S7 release for the 2011 Frankfurt show says the hybrid steel and aluminium body weighs about 15 per cent less than a comparable all-steel one. LED tail lights were standard from launch, with full LED headlights as an option until the facelift made them standard. A spoiler built into the tailgate rises at motorway speeds, and the long, low roofline, the fastback tail and the lip on the rear side window refer to the Audi 100 Coupé of the 1970s. Audi design chief Stefan Sielaff told Autocar the team wanted the car to be a gran turismo (grand tourer) with "a high-end, premium feeling" close to the A8.

Interior space and practicality: is the A7 C7 practical?

The boot holds 535 litres under a powered tailgate and 1,390 litres with the rear seat backs folded, according to Audi; CAR's 2010 review said that is 100 litres more than a Porsche Panamera. The car was sold as a four-seater. Top Gear's road test found a conventional rear bench with the middle seat belt removed; space in the back suits adults, with headroom "fine if you're under six foot". On the ride, it advised buyers to steer clear of the 20-inch S line wheels and the firmest damper setting.

Interior, infotainment and technology

A curving "wrap-around" line encircles the driver and front passenger, and the screen folds into the dashboard. Audi's 2010 press kit describes materials such as layered wood veneers, sound-deadening fleeces and optional front seats with ventilation and massage; Top Gear rated the cabin quality close to the A8's. Autocar said the A7 was the first Audi offered with a head-up display. The press kit lists MMI touch (a touchpad on which the driver writes letters with a finger), a Bluetooth online car phone bringing Google Earth images over a 3G (UMTS) connection, a wi-fi hotspot, a 1,300-watt, 15-speaker Bang & Olufsen system, adaptive cruise control with stop and go, active lane assist, park assist and a night vision camera. The 2014 facelift added an Nvidia graphics processor for the MMI and 4G (LTE) connection for Audi connect.

Trim and equipment

Before the facelift UK buyers chose from Standard, SE and S line trims, with the Black Edition above S line from late 2012. Audi UK's August 2014 release replaced Standard and SE with SE Executive, which has LED headlights, 19-inch wheels, four-zone climate control, heated electric seats in Milano leather, MMI navigation, the Audi Music Interface, front and rear parking sensors and a powered tailgate. S line added 20-inch wheels, Matrix LED headlights and sports suspension, which buyers could swap for the standard suspension at no cost.

Audi A7 C7 engines and specifications

Every Audi A7 C7 sold in Britain has a V6 engine except the S7 and RS 7, which have a 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8. The launch range had two petrol and two diesel V6s from 204PS to 300PS; the facelift's range ran from 218PS to 333PS, and every engine had stop-start and brake energy recovery.

Petrol engines

The 2.8 FSI has 204PS and 280Nm; Audi Germany's 2013 technical data gives the front-wheel-drive multitronic version 0 to 100km/h in 7.9 seconds and 235km/h (146mph). The supercharged 3.0 TFSI came with quattro and S tronic only, at 300PS when new and 333PS after the facelift. Autocar gave the 300PS car 5.6 seconds to 62mph and 190g/km. In Britain the 2.8 FSI was sold with quattro and S tronic only, at 187g/km, according to Autocar; CAR thought it was "probably best avoided".

Diesel engines

Audi badges its diesels TDI and its direct-injection petrol engines FSI or, when supercharged or turbocharged, TFSI. Every TDI in the UK A7 C7 range is a 3.0-litre V6, and it came in three strengths before the facelift. The 204PS version was the economy model: front-wheel drive with the multitronic CVT, 139g/km and 53mpg according to Autocar, or quattro with S tronic, which raised its torque from 400Nm to 450Nm. The BiTDI has two turbochargers and a sound actuator in the exhaust; Audi UK quoted 44.1mpg. After the facelift the line-up became a 218PS ultra (front-wheel drive, 60.1mpg, 122g/km), 218PS and 272PS quattros, and a 320PS BiTDI.

Sources: Autocar (July 2010) for the launch engines, Audi Germany (2013) for the 2.8 FSI, Audi UK (February 2012 and August 2014) for the BiTDI and facelift engines, Audi (2011, 2013, 2014, 2015) for the S7, RS 7 and competition, PistonHeads (2022) for the facelifted S7's 4.7 seconds. The 3.0 TFSI's torque is Autocar's 325lb ft converted. "n/a" marks a figure the cited sources do not give.

Transmission, steering and quattro

No A7 C7 has a manual gearbox. Front-wheel-drive cars had the multitronic CVT until the facelift and a new seven-speed S tronic dual-clutch box after it; quattro cars used the seven-speed S tronic, except the BiTDI, the competition and the RS 7, which have an eight-speed tiptronic automatic. The quattro system has a crown-gear centre differential with torque vectoring, and a sport differential that shares power between the rear wheels was an option, according to Audi's 2010 press kit, which also describes the electromechanical power steering, with speed-dependent dynamic steering to follow later; the RS 7 release gives the normal split as 40 per cent front and 60 per cent rear.

History of the Audi A7 C7

The A7 began as a 2009 show car, went on sale in late 2010 and was facelifted in 2014; its successor was shown in October 2017. Between those dates Audi added a twin-turbo diesel, the S7 and RS 7, and the Black Edition and other special editions.

The 2009 Sportback concept

Audi previewed the shape with the Sportback concept at the Detroit show in January 2009. CAR's report from the show explained that for Audi "Sportback indicates a more practical hatchback/fastback model", and gave the concept as 4,950mm long, 1,930mm wide and 1,400mm high, with a 3.0-litre V6 TDI, a claimed 48mpg, a drag coefficient of 0.30 and a weight of 1,800kg; Audi chairman Rupert Stadler told the magazine it previewed a five-door version of the A5 coupé, and CAR read the concept's size as a sign of a coming A7 aimed at the CLS.

A design drawn without a brief

In a November 2010 Audi release, Sielaff said the A7 started as a studio project with no order from the board and no technical specification. The idea came from Walter de Silva, then head of Volkswagen Group design, who wanted to borrow from the Audi 100 Coupé S; a group of ten designers drew it, and Sielaff said the team walked into the board's office "without an appointment" to show it. "We hardly even touched the concept again," he said. The same story became the launch advertising, made with the London agency BBH.

Munich premiere and UK launch in 2010

The production car, which Audi placed in the luxury class, was unveiled in Munich on 26 July 2010, according to Audi's invitation to the premiere. Audi's September 2010 press kit put the German starting price at €51,650 and the dealer launch in the autumn, with four V6 engines from 204PS to 300PS. GoAuto reported in July 2010 that Audi expected sales of about 40,000 a year, all built at Neckarsulm.

In the UK, Autocar reported that orders opened on 16 August 2010, with the first deliveries late in the year and prices from £42,925. A twin-turbo 3.0 BiTDI diesel with 313PS joined the UK range in February 2012 at £51,645, according to Audi UK's release, reproduced by Autoblog.

When was the Audi A7 facelifted?

Audi announced the facelifted A7 on 22 May 2014. Its release lists a new Singleframe grille, bumpers and tailpipes, LED headlights as standard with Matrix LED as an option, dynamic (sweeping) indicators, Euro 6 engines from 218PS to 333PS, a new seven-speed S tronic replacing the multitronic CVT on front-wheel-drive cars, and a German base price of €51,300. Audi UK's August 2014 release opened orders at £45,875 for the 3.0 TDI ultra, with first deliveries in the last quarter of 2014.

How to tell a facelifted A7 from an early one

The facelifted car has the hexagonal Singleframe grille with sharper corners, reshaped bumpers and wider, trapezoidal tailpipe trims, said Audi UK in 2014. Its LED tail lights have the sweeping indicator; on S line and Black Edition cars the headlights are Matrix LED units, with sweeping indicators at the front too. Inside, S line cars could be ordered in lunar silver instead of the earlier all-black scheme.

Replaced by the C8 A7 in 2018

Audi showed the second-generation A7 on 19 October 2017. Audi UK's release that day said it would also be built at Neckarsulm and could be ordered in the UK from early 2018, from about £56,000 with a 340PS 3.0 TFSI, and that it replaced "the first A7 Sportback".

Audi S7: the V8 A7 C7

The S7 is the Audi A7 C7 with a 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8, first shown at the Frankfurt show in September 2011 and delivered from spring 2012. Audi's release for the show gives 420PS and 550Nm, 0 to 100km/h in 4.9 seconds, a 250km/h (155mph) limit and 9.7 litres per 100km, helped by "cylinder on demand", which shuts down four of the eight cylinders at part load, and active noise cancellation to hide the change. Adaptive air suspension, a seven-speed S tronic and quattro were standard.

The facelift raised the power to 450PS and cut CO2 by 10g/km to 215g/km. The V8 is the engine used in the S6 and, in more powerful forms, the S8 and Bentley Continental GT, according to PistonHeads' 2022 buying guide to the C7 S6 and S7.

Audi RS 7: the fastest A7 C7

The RS 7 (often written RS7) is the fastest Audi A7 C7, with a 560PS version of the twin-turbo V8, and it was unveiled at the Detroit show on 14 January 2013. Audi's launch release gives 560PS between 5,700 and 6,700rpm and 700Nm from 1,750 to 5,500rpm. Its turbochargers sit inside the V of the engine with the exhaust side of the heads, and it also has cylinder on demand, which Audi said saved about 5 per cent on the official cycle.

How fast is the Audi RS 7 C7?

Audi quoted 0 to 100km/h (62mph) in 3.9 seconds and a top speed limited to 250km/h (155mph), raised to 280km/h (174mph) with the dynamic package and 305km/h (189mph) with the dynamic package plus. The eight-speed tiptronic, quattro with a 40:60 front-to-rear split, 20-inch forged wheels, 390mm front brake discs (420mm carbon-ceramic as an option) and air suspension that lowers the car by 20mm were standard; steel springs with Dynamic Ride Control were the alternative. A powered rear spoiler, a gloss black honeycomb grille and two oval tailpipes mark it out.

RS 7 performance

The RS 7 Sportback performance, announced in October 2015, has 605PS and 700Nm, with an overboost of 750Nm in the dynamic mode. Audi's release, reproduced by Conceptcarz, quotes 0 to 100km/h in 3.7 seconds and 0 to 200km/h in 12.1 seconds, 1.4 seconds quicker than the standard car, with 21-inch wheels, matt titanium-look trim and Ascari blue paint as an option. It cost €121,700 in Germany and reached dealers in November 2015.

Audi A7 C7 Black Edition and special editions

Audi UK's main special edition of the Audi A7 C7 was the Black Edition, introduced in November 2012 and kept in the range after the 2014 facelift. Audi also built a 3.0 TDI competition in 2014 to mark 25 years of its TDI diesels.

A6 and A7 Black Edition (2012)

Audi UK announced Black Edition versions of the A6 saloon, A6 Avant and A7 Sportback in November 2012, to order that month with first deliveries in early 2013; Autoblog reproduced the release on 6 November 2012, and Audi of America told it the cars would not be sold in the US. A SkiddMark report that month recorded the same specification and prices.

The Black Edition builds on S line trim. It has rotor-design wheels in a dark titanium finish (20-inch on the A6, 21-inch on the A7), a black grille, number plate surrounds and window frame strips, and privacy glass from the B-pillar back; the A6 Avant also has black roof rails. Inside are Piano Black inlays, sports seats in black Valcona leather and a black headlining. The A6 versions gained a BOSE sound system, DAB radio and the Audi Music Interface for iPods; the A7 already had DAB and AMI, so it gained the BOSE system, and on the A7 the S line suspension is lowered further.

On the A6 the Black Edition was offered with every engine from the 177PS 2.0 TDI upwards except the S6, with front-wheel drive or quattro, including the 313PS BiTDI with 650Nm. On the A7 it was available with every version except the front-wheel-drive 3.0 TDI 204PS and the S7. Prices ran from £35,010 to £49,185 for the A6 saloon, £36,970 to £51,025 for the Avant and £50,575 to £56,785 for the A7.

Black Edition after the facelift

Black Edition stayed at the top of the facelifted range with Matrix LED headlights, offered with every engine except the front-wheel-drive ultra; the prices are in the 2014 table below.

3.0 TDI competition

The A7 3.0 TDI competition, announced on 27 August 2014 to mark 25 years of TDI engines at Audi, has the twin-turbo V6 with 326PS (346PS for short bursts on overboost) and 650Nm, an eight-speed tiptronic and the S line sport package with suspension 20mm lower. Audi's release gives 0 to 100km/h in 5.1 seconds and lists 20-inch wheels, red brake calipers, black mirror housings and tailpipe trims, and four colours: Daytona grey, Misano red, Nardo grey and Sepang blue.

Concept cars based on the A7

Audi used the A7 for two research cars that never went on sale: a self-driving test car and a hydrogen fuel-cell car.

Piloted driving concept "Jack"

In January 2015 an A7 3.0 TFSI quattro piloted driving concept, nicknamed "Jack", drove about 560 miles from Silicon Valley to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, mostly hands-free, with journalists taking turns at the wheel in 100-mile stints and an Audi test driver on board as California law required. Audi's release of 6 January 2015 says the car used radar, laser scanners in the grille and rear bumper and a 3D video camera, and could change lanes and overtake on its own at up to 70mph.

A7 Sportback h-tron quattro

At the Los Angeles show in November 2014 Audi showed the A7 Sportback h-tron quattro, a fuel-cell car with a plug-in battery and an electric motor on each axle. Automotive Fleet reported 230hp, a two-hour full charge in plug-in mode and 310 miles of range in Audi's first tests.

How many Audi A7 C7s were made?

Volkswagen's annual reports record 205,689 A7s built from 2010 to 2017, with the peak of 37,301 in 2011, the first full year. The figures are the A7 rows of the production tables in the Audi section of each report.

Source: Volkswagen AG annual reports for 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2018, Audi brand production by model. The 2018 report gives 20,058 A7s for 2018, a year in which the second-generation car took over.

Audi A7 C7 reviews and reception

CAR and Top Gear praised the Audi A7 C7's looks, cabin materials and ride, and found it uninvolving to drive. Georg Kacher, driving a 3.0 TDI for CAR in 2010, wrote that it rode "with a compliance not usually associated with cars brandishing the four rings" but that "what the new Audi A7 is not, is particularly exciting to drive", and that buyers paid about £10,000 more than for an A6 for the hatchback and the equipment.

Top Gear's road test called the cabin "one of the best of the best", close to the A8, and the 245PS diesel the best engine, while advising buyers to avoid the 204PS version with the CVT. It found the car "fast and grippy, but it isn't a whole lot of fun to drive", with steering that "feels artificial", noted that a well-optioned A7 passed £90,000, and concluded that until the new CLS arrived it "has the beating of the big Merc in just about every department". In 2011 Audi said a panel of experts commissioned by the German magazine Auto Bild had called the A7 "the pinnacle of design".

Rivals and alternatives to the Audi A7 C7

The A7's main rival was the Mercedes-Benz CLS, which evo called the market instigator of four-door coupés. Autocar described the A7 as the car Audi hoped would take CLS sales, and CAR warned in 2010 that the second-generation CLS would reach showrooms at the same time as the Audi. Unlike the saloon-bodied CLS, the A7 has a tailgate, as do the Porsche Panamera, Aston Martin Rapide and BMW 5 Series GT that CAR named in 2010.

BMW answered with the BMW 6 Series Gran Coupé, which evo, writing about the "6-series Gran Coupe" in December 2011, described as "BMW's answer to the growing market of sporting four-door coupes", to compete with the A7, Volkswagen's CC and the CLS. Top Gear compared the 300PS A7 3.0 TFSI, at about £55,000, with the V6 Panamera at about £60,000 and found the Audi quicker and more economical, with four-wheel drive and more equipment.

Audi A7 C7 reliability, recalls and running costs

The A7 C7's recorded weak points are mostly in its fuel systems and, on the V8 cars, the turbocharger oil supply; the diesels were caught up in the Volkswagen Group emissions case. UK recall records from the DVSA name the A7 in nine campaigns for cars built between 2011 and 2018.

UK safety recalls for the A7 C7

The DVSA's recall file lists these campaigns covering A7, S7 or RS 7 cars built in the C7 years. The vehicle numbers cover every model in each campaign.

Source: DVSA vehicle recalls file, downloaded 28 October 2026.

S7 and RS 7: turbo oil strainers and other V8 faults

The 4.0 V8's two turbochargers are fed through oil strainers that can block and starve the turbo bearings. In the US, NHTSA recall 22V178 (Audi code 21H7, March 2022) covers 2013–2017 S7s and 2014–2017 RS 7s among 26,093 cars, and says worn bearings can break the shaft and stall the engine; the fix is a new strainer and an oil change. The UK recall R/2022/132 carries the same Audi code. PistonHeads' 2022 guide reported turbo failures on 2013–2017 S6 and S7s, typically between 35,000 and 50,000 miles, costing more than £5,000 to put right.

PistonHeads also wrote that "the vast majority of S6/S7 owners" reported great reliability, often over high mileages. The same guide lists a failing PCV oil separator (a loud whistle), the high-pressure fuel pump (about £1,200 when the engine struggles to start), active engine mounts, leaking air suspension struts on high-mileage cars, and occasional mechatronic unit failures in the S7's seven-speed DL501 S tronic, at about £5,000 if a new gearbox is needed.

Diesel software and the 2018 delivery stop

In May 2018 Audi stopped delivering C7 A6 and A7 models with the 272PS (268bhp) version of its Gen2 Evo 3.0 V6 TDI after finding "irregularities" in the engine software, Autocar reported on 8 May 2018. Germany's KBA called Audi to a hearing on whether the cars had an illegal defeat device; Der Spiegel put the number affected at about 30,000 in Germany and 60,000 worldwide. Audi had earlier been questioned over diesel A6 and A7 models sold between 2009 and 2013.

Running costs, servicing and road tax

A7s first registered before 1 April 2017 are taxed by CO2 band. At GOV.UK's current rates for a 12-month payment, the 122g/km 3.0 TDI ultra (band D) costs £170, the 139g/km front-wheel-drive 3.0 TDI 204PS (band E) £200, the 187g/km 2.8 FSI quattro and the 190g/km 3.0 TFSI (band J) £410, and the facelifted S7 at 215g/km and the RS 7 at 221g/km (band K) £445. Cars registered from 1 April 2017 pay the flat rate of £200 a year; the extra £440 for cars listed at over £40,000 applies for five years from the second tax payment, so it has run out on every C7.

For servicing the V8 cars, PistonHeads quoted a UK independent specialist in 2022 at about £230 for an oil change (every 10,000 miles), £300 for an inspection service, £600 with air filter and spark plugs, and £400 for an S tronic oil change every 38,000 miles; it gave real-world S7 economy as below 15mpg driven hard and about 30mpg on a motorway.

How much is an Audi A7 C7 worth?

On 28 October 2026 the first page of A7 adverts on PistonHeads' classifieds held nine first-generation Audi A7 C7s, priced from £4,995 for a 2012 3.0 TDI multitronic with 164,970 miles to £15,500 for a 2015 BiTDI Black Edition with 62,300 miles. Six of the nine were Black Editions: four 2015 and 2016 diesels with 85,000 to 157,000 miles were priced from £7,995 to £10,999, and two with about 60,000 miles at £15,350 and £15,500. A 2016 3.0 TFSI S line with 77,050 miles was £14,990.

The V8s cost more. In September 2022 PistonHeads found the cheapest S7 for sale at £23,444, a 2013 car with 78,000 miles, with a one-owner facelifted S7 with 63,000 miles at about £1,500 more.

Source: Audi UK price list, 14 August 2014. "n/a" means the combination was not listed.

Questions

What does C7 mean on an Audi A7?

C7 is the generation code the first A7 shares with the 2011–2018 A6, whose Audi type code is 4G. The second-generation A7, on sale from 2018, is the C8.

What years is the Audi A7 C7?

It was unveiled in July 2010, went on sale that autumn and was facelifted in 2014. Its successor was shown on 19 October 2017 and went on sale in the UK in 2018.

Is the Audi A7 C7 a four-seater?

Yes. It has four seat belts: Top Gear's road test found a conventional rear bench with the middle belt removed.

How big is the boot on an Audi A7 C7?

Audi quotes 535 litres with the rear seats up and 1,390 litres with them folded, under a powered tailgate.

Is the Audi A7 the same as the A6?

They share the C7 platform and engines, but the A7 has its own body with a fastback tailgate and four seats.

Which Audi A7 C7 engine is best?

Top Gear picked the 245PS 3.0 TDI quattro in 2010 and told buyers to avoid the front-wheel-drive 204PS diesel with the CVT; CAR advised against the 2.8 FSI petrol.

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