Car and Driver: They’re Only Seventeens! Audi Announces 2017 Model-Year Pricing

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If you’ve just returned from a Scrooge McDuckian money bath and—while toweling errant nickels from your body—thought to yourself, “Self, 2017 is quite certainly the model year of Audi I’d most like to own right now, but I have no idea how many doubloons I should shove into my elastic pockets and haul down to Steve’s Audi Emporium-Forum-Coliseum of Zanesville! Who will help me?” Us. We’ll help you, dear befuddled Premium Intender! As the A3 and Allroad are shortly due for refreshment, Ingolstadt has deigned not to release revised pricing for those models, but click on through to the other side for many numbers denoting the outlays for everything else the Volkswagen unit sells in America.

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Sedans

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On the sedan front, Audi’s new-for-2017 A4 sees its base price at $38,250 for 2017. Upgrading to top-spec Prestige trim carries an $8600 premium, while the midgrade Premium Plus trim rings the bell at $42,050. Adding Quattro to any model adds $2100 to the bottom line.

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The A6 gets a new “Competition” model, set to slot in between the regular A6 and S6. Its 3.0-liter supercharged V-6 offers a 7-hp bump over the standard 333-horse blown six, while torque remains the same at 325 lb-ft. S sport Valcona leather seats featuring diamond-contrast stitching, a flat-bottom steering wheel, and shift paddles are all part of the package, as are black mirror housings, 20-inch titanium-finish wheels, and red brake calipers. Available only in high-line Prestige trim, the A6 Competition will set buyers back $68,550. For those so inclined, it’s worth noting that another $3300 will trade the blower for a pair of turbochargers, add another two cylinders, and tack on a legit S6 badge, although a similarly equipped Prestige-level S6 demands a $75,050 outlay of cash. If you’d like to get in on the A6’s essential goodness, but prefer to shell out fewer dollars, a 2.0T FWD model can be yours for a mere $48,550, with an upgrade to Premium Plus trim for an addition $4000. Adding AWD to either is $2200. If you’d like the six without the Competition’s execu-racer folderol, show up to your local Audi store with $59,550 for a more-sedate Premium Plus example or $62,660 for a Prestige-level automobile.

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The A6’s swoopy-backed brother, the A7, foregoes the four-cylinder, front-drive versions and gets right to what you want. A supercharged 3.0 Quattro starts at $69,750 in Premium Plus trim. Moving up to Prestige will cost you $2550. Competitive sorts, will, naturally, opt for the Competition model at $77,600, while generalized sporty-types will spend the extra $3350 for the turbo-V-8–powered S7 Premium Plus, or the $6350 for the S7 Prestige. All-conquering victors—or those who fancy themselves such—have but one choice: the 605-hp, $130,450 RS7 Performance model. Alternately, one could save $18,800 and still have an RS7, but one would be forced to make do with 45 fewer horsepower.

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Stepping into the Easy Eight, Audi’s long-wheelbase-only A8 L is available in a single trim for $83,450. Opt for the A8 L Sport, and your 3.0-liter supercharged V-6 magically grows two cylinders, sheds its vestigal blower, sprouts a pair of turbos, and gains one whole liter of displacement. The cost of this power-enhancing fairy dust? A mere $92,450. Now, if you’d like some extra boost with that, might we lead you over here to the S8 Plus? For just $116,850, it can be champagne wishes and Ronin dreams from here on out, pal. It’s worth noting that the Plus packs the same monster 605-horse mill as the RS 7 Performance, and does it for $13,600 less. Both versions of the A8 L are available with an optional “Black Optic” package, featuring tuner-iffic darkened taillights.

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Coupes

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The lame-duck A5 soldiers on for another year—at least in the U.S., where we’ll likely see its soon-to-be-unveiled replacement in showrooms in about a year’s time. Which means for now, at least, you can still get an A5 or S5 with a manual transmission. All A5s feature Quattro standard, and now come in a single trim level. A shift-it-yourself A5 coupe will pinch the wallet to the tune of $42,150, while the automatic adds another thousand bucks to the tally. Feel like having a convertible roof? You’ll give up the manual transmission option and spend $49,550 for the privilege. Buying more grunt in the form of the $62,050 S5 Cabriolet still won’t net you a manual, but if you’re not the sunbathing type, you’re in luck. The hooligan-spec S5 is a mere $54,050. If you’d prefer to soften its temper or have suffered the misfortune of losing the use of your left foot, Audi’s dual-clutch S-tronic adds a thousand bucks to the price.

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The hyper-competent, yet strangely bland TT starts at $44,450. If you prefer the flexibility of a folding roof, add $3500. The zippy little fireball TTS, the S3’s pricier kid brother, comes in at $53,450, if you’re the sort to favor style over practicality. Like the A5 and A8, the TTs are only available in a single trim level, and all feature all-wheel drive. New for 2017 are a standard rear-view camera and auto-dimming power-folding side mirrors. Both the TT and TTS are available with the Black Optic package, offering gloss-black exterior mirrors, a blacked-out grille, unique 19-inch wheels on the TT and 20-inch titanium-finish wheels on the TTS. The TTS also gets a black rear diffuser.

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SUVs

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Audi’s low-end ute, the Q3, starts at $32,750 in FWD Premium trim, which offers 12-way power front seats, a panoramic sunroof, and LED taillights and daytime-running lights. Premium Plus models go for $35,450, and include power-folding mirrors and a power tailgate with programmable opening presets, while top-end Prestige Q3s begin at $40,150. Quattro is a $2100 option.

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The Q5 now offers more standard equipment in Prestige trim, including a multifunction steering wheel with shift paddles, a character-shifting “drive select” button, and adaptive cruise control. The $61,750 SQ5 Prestige now offers a Black Optic Plus package, which features a gloss black spoiler, door handles, and mirror housings, as well as a matte-black rear diffuser. Less-fancy Premium Plus SQ5s start at $54,250 Premium Plus Q5s—which start at $44,100 for a 2.0—now wear 19-inch five-arm star-design wheels wrapped in all-season rubber. A Premium-trim, 2.0T-powered Q5 starts at $41,850. If you’d care to opt for the V-6, but would prefer not to wear the SQ5’s sporty trappings, a Premium Plus Q5 will run you $47,350, while a Prestige model will siphon $54,150 from your coffers.

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New for 2017, the Q7 comes in three flavors: the $55,570 Premium, Premium Plus for $4000 more, and the range-topping Prestige, which will set you back a cool $64,250.

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The Supercar

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Also new for this year is the Lamborghini Huracán’s Bavarian cousin, the R8. A basic example of the mid-engined, ten-cylinder, AWD supercar costs $164,160, while the extra-zootilch R8 V10 plus starts at $191,150.

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