The A7 will be slightly more expensive than the next-generation A6—which has an identical wheelbase measurement that Audi is not yet willing to release—but positioned a bit lower than the status-oriented A8. Expect a figure in the $60,000 ballpark. More important, by simply launching a sleek hatchback without further pretense, Audi is putting a question mark behind the whole crossover trend with its increasingly strange convulsions. We suspect the A7 was proposed by designers, not by market clinics.