Car news today: Audi halting cars at US dock, new Volkswagen Transporter will offered as a BEV, and more – 10 April 2025

Thanks for joining us this Thursday April Tenth 2025. Seriously in automobile news this present day: Audi halts importing vehicles into the US within the face of tariffs, new Volkswagen Transporter launched as devoted EV

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• Audi halts importing vehicles into the US within the face of tariffs
• Unusual Volkswagen Transporter differ entails fleshy EV variant
• Unusual irregular Mercedes-AMG variant equipped in cramped numbers
• Nissan’s AI-powered ‘self reliant using’ software is teased

• Reviewed: 2025 RAM 1500

Audi halts importing vehicles into the US within the face of tariffs

• Audi is keeping stock mosey for North American dealerships in US docks as Volkswagen’s wholly imported establish negotiates the Trump Administration’s 25 percent tariff.

• In line with Reuters, Audi had already stockpiled 37,000 vehicles – examples now no longer struggling from presumably the most up-to-date tariffs – into its US stock, or sufficient stock to kind two months of customary North American gross sales, earlier than halting imports at docks on April 2nd.

• Audi’s greatest-selling model within the US is the Q5 mid-size SUV, which is manufactured in Mexico. Not like rivals BMW and Mercedes-Benz, no Audi vehicle is made or assembled within the US.

• Both Audi and Volkswagen vehicles struggling from tariffs now equipped within the US will establish on itemised stickers advising patrons of how great added import prices have been applied by the US federal authorities.

Unusual Volkswagen Transporter differ entails fleshy EV variant

• For the main time within the firm’s history, Volkswagen can be providing the Transporter industrial van as a devoted electrical vehicle. The EV Transporter can be equipped alongside a more broken-down diesel Transporter, and later in 2026, a toddle-in hybrid variant is anticipated to hitch the differ.

• The new generation of Volkswagen Transporter is anticipated to hotfoot on sale in Q3 2025, with the PHEV Transporter anticipated to launch in Q2 2026. The Transporter can be readily available in short- or long-wheelbase configurations, with two or three seats and an non-obligatory excessive roof.

• Volkswagen guarantees that the Transporter will continue to be industrial centered, with all variants in a position to carrying over a one-tonne payload, and desirable loading station to abet industrial drivers with convenient loading and unloading.

• Additionally coming to the Volkswagen industrial world, every the Caddy and Crafter vehicles can be receiving a main replace, which incorporates a 10-plod infotainment conceal, front and rear parking sensors, vitality-folding mirrors, and tyre stress monitoring all as customary tools.

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Unusual irregular Mercedes-AMG variant equipped in cramped numbers

• Mercedes-AMG has launched a brand new Edition R variant to the GLC 43 4MATIC SUV and Coupé, which guarantees irregular exterior styling, trick dynamic engine mounts, and ‘RACE’ using mode.

• Other irregular enhancements found on the GLC 43 AMG Edition R consist of “aerodynamically optimised” 21-plod wheels, purple brake calipers, and blacked-out exterior aspects, at the side of the grille.

• For the length of the Edition R, drivers are met by bucket-sort seats accompanied by purple seatbelts, nappa leather-essentially based mostly fully steering wheel, and an irregular centre console with metal accents.

• Currently, the GLC 43 4MATIC Edition R is priced at $128,900 for the SUV variant, and $141,600 for the Coupe. Both prices shown are sooner than on-road prices.

Nissan’s AI-powered ‘self reliant using’ software is coming

• Nissan Australia has equipped a snapshot into its 2027 plans for a brand new generation of ‘ProPILOT’ – the in-rental Nissan ‘self reliant using’ diagram. ProPILOT will utilise lidar know-how and “Wayve”, an AI powered driver software, to give a grab to collision detection.

• Nissan claims its partnership with Wayve, a world AI firm, will give a grab to ProPILOT to greater deal with sophisticated on-road considerations in a “human-bask in map”. The AI know-how makes spend of a staunch learning model, which is able to greater its functionality in step with mammoth quantities of staunch world files.

• Nissan’s ProPILOT driver assist software makes spend of a combination of radar, lidar, and broken-down cameras along side an evolving AI neural network to plan and simulate an interpretation of an on-road complication, and then answer accordingly, to keep a ways flung from collisions.

• Whereas claiming that “the future era of automated using [can] keep a ways flung from extremely advanced accidents,” Nissan has now no longer specified the diploma of autonomy – semi- or fleshy – the brand new advancements will abet facilitate, and to what time body.

2025 RAM 1500 reviewed

• Chasing Autos manufacturing specialist Tom Inform’s review of the 2025 Ram 1500 used to be published, at the side of an intensive overview of the Typhoon straight-six engine, and accolades of the Ram’s 4500kg braked towing ability.

• The Ram 1500 used to be commended for its very good toddle quality, critically when aided by non-obligatory air-gather suspension. The all-new straight six engine moreover got reward for very good vitality offer and overall refinement.

• Inform rather assessed the Ram 1500’s interior, which used to be a chunk of burdened by Stellantis-connected quality considerations. He identified the getting rid of of a appropriate faulty model vehicle to the Ram 1500 lineup, resulting in a now entry designate of $141,950 sooner than on-road prices for the Ram 1500 Laramie.

• Gross sales figures from earlier years demonstrate the Ram 1500 sees a desirable share of gross sales in regional Australia. The Ram 1500 is a ravishing consideration for desirable families who on a customary basis tow heavy braked hundreds, or property householders shopping for a desirable, versatile ute.

READ: Ram 1500 2025 review

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