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hey guys this is Austin we've had the chance to take a look at a lot of very cool out is this year from the q7 to the r8 on the track to the e-tron but the a7 might just be my favorite one yet as always shoot shout out to outtie for sponsoring this video and for hooking me up with the a7 for a week at first glance this looks similar to the last gen car which is not a bad thing at all take one look at the rs7 and it should be pretty clear why I think this is one of the best-looking 4-door sedans of all time but I will say that the a7 definitely does step it up don't be fooled though this car is all new for example the LED headlights look so cool especially at night this also comes across with the taillights so not like today run across the entire length of the back of the car but they're all LED and they even animated out nicely when you turn your turn signal on it's a super cool touch the newly seven does share a lot of DNA with the a6 but one of the big differences is of course that it is a sport bag which means that there is a ton of cargo space we pop the back you will see that we have a ton of stuff loaded up in here it's not only there are a couple of camera cases we have a bunch of random little bags and accessories what's nice is that we can take all this instead of plenty of room for Ken and I don't know people inside get the a7 out on the freeway and this is really where things Shayne so not only do we have great adaptive cruise control but we also have that paired with the lane keep assist so we're a little bit of mixed traffic right now and what really impressed me is just how smooth everything is so the car is completely handling the throttle and the brake and the steering is pretty much all completely automatic as well I do need to keep a hand on the wheel but beyond that the lane keep assist does a really good job of keeping us centered and more importantly driving smoothly so I've driven a fair few cars that had various levels of driver assistance and self-driving capabilities and well they generally do work pretty well usually you can tell it's not a real person driving because it's not quite smooth right it's a little jerky doesn't quite stay in the lane quite right little like drift back and forth but here it really does feel like a normal person is driving the a7 is loaded with cool tech take one look around this interior and you will see that outtie does cabins right Meli's are this great wood finish that wraps around the front but if I turn the car on you'll also see if there's LED lighting which goes all over the place if they should really subtle look but it's nice to have just a little bit of an accent here over here down here pretty much everywhere you look if you saw the video we did on the each one recently the center staff will is very familiar so in the bottom we have a touch screen which is mostly used for things like the climate control as well as a few system settings and on top of that we also have a much bigger touch screen and this is used for navigation radio all the kind of fun stuff this is also where you'll find the excellent 360-degree view it is super cool to be able to see now from a top-down perspective but also to see a full 360 around your car just exactly where everything is it looks so cool it's like a video game here I can see from outside the car from inside the car and that's thanks to a series of cameras that are wrapped around the a7 one of my favorite features is inside the console well do we have Qi wireless charging so you can just set my phone down and will begin to charge but on top of that we also have wireless carplay it's totally seamless and it is so dope there's also an upgraded version of virtual cockpit now a lot of other cars are moving away from physical gauges but this purely digital set up with a nice high resolution screen looks really nice and it's a big step up from my car for a big car this thing actually handles pretty well so it is helped that we have those big 21 inch wheels and those sticky summer tires I mean you can do this up in the canyons and it handles pretty well which is weird because like in my head I know just how big this car is a very large Sportback once you actually get it out on the road the size definitely kind of shrinks it feels much more nimble maybe not quite like an rs3 but close I mean the drive is so smooth so the e7 actually does take advantage of a mild hybrid system so there's a 48 volt battery underneath the cargo floor and the back and what that gives you is just a little bit of extra torque with the electric motor to get rid of any kind of minor turbo lag which I can't tell if there's any at all and on top of that it's really cool because it allows you to easily start the motor very seamlessly we're a start or a stop [Laughter] so I just had to do that so we do have a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission and of course it does a great job of sort of driving around in automatic mode but you do have the paddles if you want to have a little bit of extra fun I've got to say there's a lot to like with the new a7 between all the cool tech as well as just how well it drives for such a big sports ACK not gonna lie kind of excited for the new rs7 though