Rumorpile: Next Audi Q7 Heads Back To The Drawing Board

By William Maley

August 17, 2013
By William Maley • August 17, 2013

Rumorpile: Next Audi Q7 Heads Back To The Drawing Board

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William Maley

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August 17, 2013

What do the Honda Civic, Chevrolet Malibu, and upcoming Audi Q7 have in common? All of them have undergone an emergency redesign.

Motor Trend reports that Audi has ordered a emergency redesign on the next Q7. The original design was described as being "Too Brutal and Ostentatious"and was negatively received. This is possibly one of the reasons that former head of product development at Audi, Wolfgang Dürheimer was pushed out.

The cost of this emergency redesign? $260 million and being pushed back a year.

Source: Motor Trend

William Maley is a staff writer for Cheers & Gears. He can be reached at [email protected] or you can follow him on twitter at @realmudmonster.
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The Q7 brutal? No, just a giant lump of car. In white they look rather whale like...

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