- 2026 Audi Q7 prototype’s cabin spied for the first time.
- Images show a curved gauge cluster and a steering wheel with touch-sensitive buttons.
- Three-row SUV was photographed on and around the Nurburgring in Germany.
Audi has just facelifted the Q7 for 2025, but don’t let that fool you into thinking the current SUV has a long life ahead of it. These images of the inside and outside of an entirely new Q7 prove today’s three-row flagship’s days are numbered.
Our spy photographers have snapped the 2026 Q7 a few times in prototype form, but one thing they haven’t been able to capture until now is a shot of the interior. A single frame in the latest scoop haul plugs that gap, however, giving us a rough idea of what drivers can expect if they opt for Audi’s most practical SUV instead of one of its BMW or Mercedes rivals.
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And it is only a rough idea at this stage because the dashboard was covered up like it was investigating an outbreak of an infectious disease or radiation leak. Black cloth disguise panels obscured the console and switchgear, leaving only narrow clear plastic slots so the driver could see the various digital displays.
It looks like the Q7 will present the driver with a curved one-piece display that stretches across to the far side of the center stack, and the passenger gets their own separate screen above the glovebox that can be used to stream movies and access social media accounts.
Look familiar? We think the production dashboard will appear very much like the one on the new Q6 e-tron, though we’ll have to wait for a better image next time around to be certain. The steering wheel with its touch-sensitive buttons also looks just like the one on the Q6, but we’re not sure what’s going on with the column stalk on the right-hand side of the wheel. Maybe it’s a new design of transmission shifter.
Other than a new set of wheels probably due to the prototype no longer needing the winter tires German law demanded at the tail end of the winter months the last time we saw this same car, nothing much has changed. The split headlight nose is still mostly hidden apart from the grille, and there are still placeholder lights at the other end.
The Q7 is scheduled to be one of the last new combustion-powered cars the automaker introduces, and will be offered with a mix of milld- and plug-in hybrid petrol engines, probably in addition to a couple of diesel powertrains in markets where buyers still love to test their bladder capacity on 500-mile (800 km) non-stop freeway journeys.
