Car news today: Toyota Yaris and Yaris Cross updated, Jeep Avenger pricing chopped 30 percent, and more – 12 May 2025

Thanks for becoming a member of us this Monday, Would possibly presumably well per chance 12th 2025. Notably in automobile news as of late: Toyota updates Yaris and Yaris Unpleasant with more parts and increased pricing, Jeep Avenger entry designate level decrease by 30 percent.

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• Toyota improves security for 2025 Yaris and Yaris Unpleasant
• Shock $16,000 designate plunge hits Jeep Avenger
• Tesla’s ‘Acceleration Increase’ choice returns to US markets
• Volvo XC70 revived in China… As a high-tail-in hybrid SUV

• Reviewed: 2025 Kia Tasman

Toyota improves security for 2025 Yaris and Yaris Unpleasant

• Toyota Australia has introduced this can incorporate a slew of most up-to-date driver aid technologies to its Yaris hatchback and Yaris Unpleasant compact SUV in a unusual change.

• Contemporary pricing for the two compact Toyotas unearths designate increases of between $40 and $890 reckoning on model and variant. All devices advise the identical hybrid drivetrain, and reach an ‘acoustic automobile alert draw’ which emits external audio all over EV riding.

• Bad model variants of the two autos are build to receive the intriguing quit of the price upward push, gaining a ‘parking reinforce brake’ which goals to discontinue low-mosey carpark incidents. The spoiled GX Yaris Unpleasant now comes long-established with blind predicament monitoring and safe exit wait on.

• Toyota’s Yaris Ascent Sport and Yaris Unpleasant GX 2WD are currently priced from $28,990 and $31,790 (MSRP) respectively. They primarily rival the $29,000 (MSRP) Hyundai i30 and $30,370 (MSRP) Mazda CX-3.

READ: Toyota Yaris Hybrid 2021 evaluate

Shock $16,000 designate plunge hits Jeep Avenger

• Jeep Australia has quietly slashed the price of its introductory model Jeep Avenger Longitude from $56,000 to $40,000 drive-away, making it now one of many most price-effective runt-dimension EV SUVs in the marketplace.

• The Avenger Longitude is one of a handful of Jeep model variants (in conjunction with the Gladiator Rubicon and Extensive Cherokee Restricted) to receive a valuable pricing haircut in gentle of the head of financial year.

• Strangely, only the spoiled model Jeep Avenger Longitude has been granted a designate good buy. The mid-spec Restricted and vary-topping Summit are quiet priced at $61,495 and $67,845 respectively.

• To this level in 2025, Jeep has bought 21 Avengers – a decrease sales figure than the $429,000 D/A Aston Martin DBX (24 devices). No matter natty, the Jeep Avenger parts a 51kWh battery, 115kW/260Nm entrance-drive electrical motor, and vary of as much as 390km (WLTP).

READ: Jeep Avenger 2025 evaluate

WATCH: Jeep’s first-ever EV is a pint-sized shock (Jeep Avenger 2025 Review)

Tesla’s ‘Acceleration Increase’ choice returns to US markets

• Tesla has re-introduced the ‘Acceleration Increase’ bundle as a US$2000 (around AU$3200) choice for the 2025 Tesla Mannequin Y Lengthy Differ AWD.

• Acceleration Increase grants patrons an approximate 75-kilowatt enhance in output, elevating total vitality from 378kW to 453kW. Tesla claims the enhance will decrease the 0-100km/h time of the Mannequin Y from 4.8 to 4.2 seconds.

• At the same time as currently weird to the US market, it’s doubtless the Mannequin Y Acceleration Increase might additionally simply about Oz. Tesla Australia already offers the bundle as an AUD$3000 choice for the Mannequin 3 Lengthy Differ.

• The unusual Tesla Mannequin Y Lengthy Differ AWD started promoting in Australian markets in April 2025. It parts a 75kWh battery, 551km (WLTP) vary, and 27 minute speedily DC price time (10-80 percent at 250kW DC). Currently, the Mannequin Y Lengthy Differ AWD is priced at $68,900 sooner than on-avenue prices.

READ: Tesla Mannequin Y Lengthy Differ AWD 2025 evaluate

WATCH: Has this major change improved the enviornment’s easiest-promoting EV? (2025 Tesla Mannequin Y evaluate)

Volvo XC70 revived in China…as a high-tail-in hybrid SUV

• Long previous are the times of the quirky, off-avenue focused and unapologetic wagon. Volvo’s newly published XC70 is a high-tail-in hybrid mid-dimension SUV with a fearless 200km (CLTC) vary.

• Volvo’s unusual XC70 is constructed on an all-unusual ‘Scalable Modular Architecture’ platform, which centralises around prolonged vary high-tail-in hybrid architecture. CEO Håkan Samuelsson claims the platform is an “glowing different to customers who’re no longer but ready for fully electrical autos.”

• Small print surrounding the combustion-engine ingredient of the XC70 have not but been published. This can likely be a variant of Volvo’s B4204T turbocharged petrol four cylinder, considered in the XC60 and XC90.

• Currently, Volvo intends to market the unusual XC70 exclusively to the Chinese market, with preliminary orders to be taken on the head of the year. Volvo claims it’s “exploring ability extra markets at a later stage.”

2025 Kia Tasman reviewed

• Chasing Vehicles off-avenue specialist Evan Spence’s Australian first drive of the 2025 Kia Tasman used to be published, in conjunction with its bespoke ladder body chassis and frequency selective shock absorbers.

• Spence used to be impressed by the rugged and nicely realizing out engineering of the Tasman. Colossal suspension articulation, enhanced management arm bushes, enviornment of expertise shock-absorbers and huge rear differential all find the phase for a promising off-roader.

• On-avenue performance and reliable-world towing ability remain to be examined, with Spence denoting that his take a look at drive used to be held strictly off-avenue on private property.

• The crew at Chasing Vehicles eagerly await the public liberate of the Kia Tasman. On preliminary viewing and all over preliminary off-avenue testing, the Tasman looks to be more than in a position to rivaling one of the most real looking-promoting Ford Ranger and Toyota Hilux.

READ: Kia Tasman 2025: Australian first drive

WATCH: Off-avenue in Korea’s unusual Ford Ranger rival (Kia Tasman 2025 Review)

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