Audi A7

FIRST REPORT Our newA7 Sportback impresses with its exec credentials and cutting-edge tech

- Sean Carson

HOW do you say hello to one of the most technologically advanced cars on sale today? Well, to welcome Audi’s new A7 to the Auto Express fleet and to fully understand all of the advanced kit on board, I went to my local Audi dealer to pick up ‘my’ new car and get a thorough briefing on how it all works.

That local garage is Watford Audi, where I was greeted on arrival by sales executive Gareth King. Although Audi hasn’t always performed that well in our Driver Power dealer survey (the German firm's franchises finished 15th out of 26 brands in our most recent rundown), Gareth operated with all of the slick professionalism you'd expect fro man Audi sales person– even when I had a little tech hiccup.

We went through the example digital specification process, adding the options and extras that would bring our car’s £58,155 list price up to the £77,045 total as tested. All fine there. However, when setting up the my Audi smart phone app that grants access to your car and some of its functions via your mobile, there was a slight snag with my device.