Audi Q7: Big, bold seven-seater is a diesel diamond

The third-generation Audi Q7 gets more tech, more luxury and more practicality The Audi Q7 doesn’t need an introduction, does it? It’s been around since 2006, and it is to seven-seat SUVs what Hovis is to bread. Well… maybe the posh Hovis, anyway.This new, third generation looks to be a well-hewn evolution. It sits on the new PPC platform - which is a heavy evolution of the MLB Evo platform that underpinned the previous Q7, Bentley Bentayga and many more. Petrol and plug-in hybrid powertrains will join the range in the first half of 2027, but the Q7 launches in the UK with the 48v mild hybrid, 3.0-litre turbodiesel V6 that I drove out in France.