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Torque monster 2024 BMW i5 Touring coming to Australia: full details

EV Central

A wagon version of BMW’s all-electric i5 has been confirmed for Australia, arriving in the third quarter of this year. The i5 M60 xDrive Touring lands with a chunky price tag of $219,900 before on-roads – $4000 more than the all-wheel-drive dual motor sedan equivalent which went on sale last year.

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2024 Mercedes-Benz EQE 300 SUV review: This five-door five-seat electric SUV is right in the zone … until you get to the price

EV Central

As its name suggests it is E-class (large) sized and is styled like an SUV (wagon). That’s a lot of money to ask for a five-door five-seat rear-wheel drive wagon, even if it comes with the three-pointed star. The logical opposition for the EQE SUV include the Audi Q8 e-tron , BMW iX and Lexus RZ450e. To its left is a 12.8-inch

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Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV review: Large seven-seat EV steps up the opulence

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Utilising the underpinnings of the EQS sedan , the made-in-America EQS SUV adds a wagon body that is about 20cm higher. There are no direct rivals at this stage, with the closest options being the Tesla Model X that is currently not available here as well as the smaller BMW iX.

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Delphis Plastic Case Radio Design Wins Society of Plastics Engineers Innovation Award

Green Car Congress

GM’s exterior spoiler with integrated CHMSL assembly on the 2009 Cadillac CTS Sport Wagon is a highly dimensionally stable, thermoplastic Class A horizontal body panel. BMW’s door panel in the 2008 7 Series was compression molded from a new, high-performance, lightweight, cost-effective, and green composite. Powertrain.

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Bailouts and Beemers

Plugs and Cars

None can deny the importance of the auto industry to the American economy, but no one was in the mood to pay obeisance to the once-powerful supplicants. Wagoner, Nardelli and Mullaly sat down to find Republicans sensing an opportunity to kill off the unions, and progressives willing to let it happen to bitch-slap the high-flying execs.