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Get out of the way diesel! Toyota Prado petrol-electric hybrid SUV coming to Australia as soon as 2024

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Toyota Australia appears certain to add a petrol-electric hybrid to the new-generation Prado 250 Series SUV line-up as soon as this year. litre ‘i-FORCE MAX’ petrol-electric hybrid was initially put on the backburner for Australia, but that now appears to have changed. litre turbo-diesel engine. But it won’t be the last.

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2025 Hyundai Inster review: the $40k city SUV challenge to the MG4, GWM Ora and BYD Dolphin

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Finally – belatedly – we have one of Australia’s top five car brands delivering a budget small EV. Unsurprisingly it’s Hyundai, launching its Inster city crossover SUV into Aussie hands early in 2025 with a target price – Hyundai Australia says – around $40,000. It’s about bloody time.

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Special 2024 MG 4 XPower review: Brand’s first homegrown hero scores local upgrades that deliver China’s most scorching electric hot hatch

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If there’s one surefire way to know when a brand is feeling comfortable in Australia, it’s when they turn their attention to homegrown special editions meant to appeal to our love of performance, whether that’s on or off the road. When it comes time to charge, the XPower will take 140kW DC charging. Incredible.

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Hyundai Ioniq 6 AWD Techniq review

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Car design has become increasingly uniform this past decade, so it’s refreshing to see something genuinely different. “We’re hoping for a greater volume than Ioniq 5, but we just don’t know,” said Hyundai Australia’s Bill Thomas. Even if you’re not taken by its looks, the Ioniq 6’s range makes headlines.

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27,000km Pole to Pole in a Nissan EV?

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Chris and Julie Ramsey with their 2023 Nissan Ariya Pole-to-Pole custom special Charging points are hardly plentiful in these icy tundras, and good luck plugging in at a desert servo. Arctic Trucks, specialists in polar expedition vehicles, has collaborated with Nissan design and engineering teams to prepare this Ariya for its epic adventure.

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Seven-day test: 2024 Audi RS e-tron GT, now with $100,000 price cut?

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Cheapest is at a Tasmanian Audi dealer showing just 495km – it may have only been charged once in its short life. Bit tight charging another $8400 for a ‘Sensory package’ to bring massage too – a welcome feature on a grand tourer. On Audi’s website it lists ten close to me in Brisbane.

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Hyundai Ioniq 5 N prototype driven. Is this the makings of an EV masterpiece?

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It won’t arrive in Australia until sometime in the first half of 2024, but it’s already shaping up as a half-price rival to the Porsche Taycan. This is a pretty standard list of high-performance chassis modifications, but the N division has really embraced the new tuning opportunies that an EV offers.

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