Car news today: MG’s cut-price small car, Ford’s wide-reaching recall and BYD’s Ferrari-beater – 02 May 2025

Thanks for joining us this Friday Would possibly per chance per chance 2nd 2025. Severely in car news on the present time: MG3 adds new good deal basement, Ford recalls more than 13,000 Rangers and Everests, BYD’s Ferrari beater, more challenging CR-V debuts and Jaecoo J7 reviewed.

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• More affordable model for one of Australia’s favourites: 2025 MG3 Vibe
• Ford recalls over 13,000 Lion V6 equipped Rangers, Everests
• ‘Our car will probably be larger’: BYD claims world-beating supercar in trend
• Toughened up Honda CR-V headlines US updates
• Evaluation: Jaecoo J7 Ridge AWD

More affordable model for one of Australia’s favourites: 2025 MG3 Vibe

• Australia’s favourite light car has picked up a new entry-level variant with a permanent $21,990 driveaway model. The MG3 Vibe steps in as closing stock of the faded car is exhausted at dealerships.

• In contrast to the outdated entry-level Excite Petrol (now mid-spec), the Vibe gets downgraded with 15-plug steel wheels, no rear defective-site traffic alert or blind-field monitoring, and twist-key originate.

• The Vibe level-headed has tyre rigidity monitoring, a 10.25-plug touchscreen, synthetic leather-essentially based totally-appointed guidance wheel, adaptive cruise adjust, wired Apple CarPlay and Android Auto along with a 7.0-plug digital driver’s demonstrate.

• MG will handiest provide the MG3 Vibe with a 1.5-litre petrol four-cylinder growing 81kW and 142Nm that drives the front wheels by capability of a CVT computerized, with no hybrid equipped.

Ford recalls over 13,000 Lion V6 equipped Rangers, Everests

• Ford has issued a recall covering 13,490 examples of its V6 Ranger and Everest built between April 2022-2025.

• The vehicles, equipped with the 3.0-litre ‘Lion’ V6 engine, would possibly per chance per chance journey “left-hand engine camshaft sprocket” failure, essentially based totally on the recall gaze lodged with the Department of Infrastructure.

• “This capability that, the engine would possibly per chance per chance stall, leading to a unexpected lack of motive vitality whilst riding,” reads the recall gaze.

• Whereas you happen to deem your car is affected, a listing of VINs for the recalled vehicles will even be found out at this hyperlink.

‘Our car will probably be larger’: BYD claims world-beating supercar in trend

• Chinese language carmakers are going mammoth. BYD has claimed to possess been secretly engaged on a supercar for the previous 5 years with aspirations to beat Ferrari and Porsche at their very believe video games.

• Apparently, the twin-turbo V8 published on the 2025 Shanghai Auto Repeat is at possibility of be relatively on the shipshape size to fit within the supposed supercar — presumably a twin-turbo V6 cherish the Ferrari 296.

• On the opposite hand, BYD chairman Wei Jianjun — who became once noticed riding a Ferrari SF90 in China — claimed the company’s car “will probably be larger” than even Ferrari’s flagship. That’s combating talk about.

• BYD’s luxury offshoot Yangwang has already debuted plenty of thoughts-bending items, including the tank-turning U8 off-roader and leaping actively-suspended U9 sports car.

Toughened up Honda CR-V headlines US updates

• Honda USA has introduced a new off-avenue oriented CR-V Trailsport variant which headlines a mid-lifestyles replace for the family SUV.

• Upgrades for the entire vary encompass a 9.0-plug touchscreen, wi-fi Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, 10.2-plug digital devices, built-in Google for some items, and wi-fi cellular phone charging.

• The new Trailsport AWD is famed by all-terrain Continental CrossContact tyres, a more challenging front bumper with silver skid plate, and orange badging around the automobile.

• The sixth-technology CR-V arrived in Australia in September 2023, and is level-headed regarded as reasonably mute in-market. Honda Australia has no longer introduced any native updates to its Toyota RAV4 and Hyundai Tucson rival.

Evaluation: Jaecoo J7 Ridge AWD

• Avenue take a look at editor John Guidelines takes a gaze on the brand new Jaecoo J7, a mid-size SUV that promises to be both top class and off-avenue capable despite a indubitably agreeable model.

• Guidelines became once impressed by the cabin building, abet seat region and the surprise obtain that the all-wheel drive petrol Ridge model examined indubitably has some off-avenue chops — uncommon for a snug-roader.

• Less spectacular were the hesitant twin-clutch transmission, pronounced avenue noise, along with chassis and guidance calibrations which possess a range of room for enchancment.

• Within the slay, it’s factual to note a low-price-to-buy SUV attempting to face out, with an outlined USP within the segment. The Ridge is with out a doubt the J7 variant to buy, even if it’s a little rough around the perimeters as compared with established names.

WATCH: Can this low-price Chinese language SUV compete?

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