Audi Q7: The Los Angeles Audi Streets of Tomorrow event

AudiWorld has a great report about the Los Angeles Audi Streets of Tomorrow event. A must read!

It was a warm and sunny Los Angeles Sunday afternoon. The sky was almost blue, muted only by the few dozen metric tons of carbon monoxide in the air. The setting was perfect for a rare offering from an automobile company: an open house test drive event featuring its entire lineup of cars. It was called `Streets of Tomorrow', presented by Audi.

The location was the fittingly high-tech Pacific Design Center, located in West Hollywood. The actual event concentrated on the sprawling glass and metal landmark's back parking lot and entrance. To the right side of the large doors were a fleet of 4.2 Q7's queued in a single-file line ready for test-driving. The large SUV's looked very handsome, if not a bit imposing, with their military-like positioning making them appear ready to invade a small country. The Q7 is indeed a very impressive looking vehicle, and is downright gorgeous when standing next to its rather frumpy and relatively out-dated looking competing vehicles (a BMW and Volvo) that Audi willingly brought in for the guests to compare.

Every couple of minutes the crowd would quiet down and stare in synchronized awe as a North American spec RS4 would roll in to unload its latest posse of passengers. The car has a downright erotic sound to its exhaust; moaning a seductive mix of large-displacement burbling and jet engine wheezing. Amazing. The RS4 was the only car that could not be driven by a guest. Instead Audi offered passenger-only experiences of the supercar. Even with that limitation the waiting list averaged almost 2 hours.

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Source: AudiWorld

Audi Q7: The Los Angeles Audi Streets of Tomorrow event

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