For such a big vehicle, the Q7 feels light on its feet, and the 4.2-liter V-8 provides plenty of oomph, accelerating the beast to 60 miles an hour in seven seconds.
According to DaimlerChrysler (nyse: DCX - news - people) officials, the PowerBox puts out a very ungolf-cart-like 300 horsepower and accelerates to 60 miles per hour in seven seconds, while still generating exceedingly low emissions.
Unfortunately, at about the same time that this statement was being made, a video was being put up on YouTube in which, seven seconds in, a policeman steps daintily over a circle of protestors, who do nothing to impede him, before dousing them with aerosol condiment.
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But right, if you could get a car that could get 40 to 45 miles to the gallon and go as fast as my Subaru, which can do zero to 60 in under seven seconds, and feel like a lot of fun to drive, boy, would you have something, and that's clearly something the industry is hoping they can get.
Farah performed superbly at the event in Birmingham, slashing his own British 3, 000m indoor record by 6.52 seconds in clocking seven minutes 34.47 seconds.
Meanwhile, Saif Shaheen Saeed, the Kenyan-born Qatari, failed in his attempt on his own world record in the 3000m steeplechase, coming home almost three seconds off the pace in seven minutes 56.54 seconds.
Driving for team Buggy, the Spaniard completed the 13km leg from Peru's capital Lima in seven minutes 40 seconds.
Drivers in 1990 cars would fight crushing G-forces as they lurched from zero to 125 mph and back to zero in less than seven seconds.
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Cancellara has increased his overall advantage to 33 seconds from Team Columbia's Tony Martin, with Armstrong a further seven seconds away in third position and Contador down to fourth place -- 59 seconds adrift of Cancellara.
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The elder brother ended with a time of 29 minutes and seven seconds in the 10km run -- just over a minute and a half slower than compatriot Mo Farah who won the 10, 000 meters on Saturday.
The Knicks slowed down in the second and Washington was within seven late in the period, but New York scored seven points in the final 50.3 seconds, with Raymond Felton stealing the ball from Wall and laying it in with 1.3 seconds left to make it 58-43.
They raced home in seven minutes 04.88 seconds, with Belarus second and Romania third.
Phelps handed over to Ryan Lochte, Peter Vanderkaay and Klete Keller to win in seven minutes 07.33 seconds with Australia second and Italy third.
He hurtled up the ramp in just under seven and a half seconds fourteen-hundredths faster than Poundstone and won the championship by a single point.
Peterhansel, driving a Mitsubishi, completed the 370km run from Bamako to Kayes, Mali, in three hours, 30 minutes and seven seconds.
Changeywo was seven seconds ahead of Jo Pavey in the women's event while Chebii repeated his victory of 12 months ago.
Fifty-seven seconds after the shot went in, the official raised his right arm above his head and slammed it downward, mimicking a shot going into a basketball.
Hackett, unbeaten in the event for seven years, led all the way to win gold in 14 minutes 43.40 seconds, breaking the Olympic record set by his fellow Australian Kieren Perkins at Barcelona in 1992.
It has to be more than something that occupies seven seconds on television or two lines in a print story.
The smallest margin of victory was back in 1982 when Condor of Bermuda pipped Apollo by just seven seconds.
Chile's Francisco Lopez, riding a KTM, took the honors in the motorcycle section with a clocking of seven minutes 51 seconds.
In 1986, seven astronauts died after the Challenger space shuttle exploded 72 seconds after lift-off from Cape Canaveral.
That sequence resulted in a whopping seven additional foul shots for Henry with 2.8 seconds remaining, and he made four of them for the final margin, finishing with 28 points.
Semenya burst on to the world stage when she ran 1.56.72 in Bambous last month, smashing her previous personal best by more than seven seconds.
The result was a machine that fills 16 ounces in about five seconds if the water is at room temperature, or about seven seconds if it has to meander through refrigeration pipes on the way out.
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"You put seven years of development on the line -- you have a few seconds in which the system needs to perform particularly well, " he said.
Schumacher, in another disappointing weekend for the seven-time world champion, was more than 0.6 seconds slower than his team-mate.
N'dour, best known to western audiences for his 1994 hit Seven Seconds with Neneh Cherry, first made his name outside Africa working with Peter Gabriel in the 1980s.
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Beneath its carbon fiber skin the 6.5-litre V12 engine and seven-speed single-clutch gearbox get the car to 60 miles per hour in a flat three seconds.
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