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Peter Anderson

Contributing journalist

10 min read

Audi's Q7 is a belter of a car. When it landed late last year, it tore up the form book. For a start, it got smaller than the first generation and went diesel-only (in Australia, at least) when that was a brave decision. It also put some new-to-the-segment tech and an interior every car company would kill for.

The SQ7 is doing that all over again. Up until now, the Q7 didn't have a quick version whereas rivals BMW and Mercedes SUVs do: BMW has the triple-turbo X5 M50d and the X5 M. Audi realised it was on to something when the spectacular SQ5 shot up the charts and planned the SQ7 to have the same impact.

Looking to the brilliant SQ5 for inspiration, in went a whopping great diesel engine. And then the company really went to work.

Read the full Audi SQ7 2016 review .