Audi says the latest Q7 is the first production model to earn a perfect score in Euro NCAP's Post-Crash Safety category, hitting 100 percent in an assessment that most automakers barely register in their marketing.
The large SUV also earned the organization's overall five-star rating, so buyers get two separate verdicts bundled under one badge. One measures how the Q7 protects people in a crash. The other measures what happens in the minutes right after.