Car news today: Toyota’s cheaper Prado GXL five-seater on sale, Audi’s red-hot RS3 detailed, and more – 15 May 2025

Thanks for becoming a member of us this Thursday, Might perhaps 15th 2025. Notably in automobile news on the present time: Toyota has released pricing for its more cost effective five-seat version of Prado GXL, Audi releases pricing and specs for up to this point RS3 twins, and more.

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• Toyota Prado GXL five-seat priced from $78,990 checklist
• Pricing and specs for Audi RS3 Sportback and Sedan printed
• Skoda’s electrical Elroq puny SUV to hit showroom in Q3 2025
• Lexus updates LX SUV for 2025, provides new Overtrail variant

• Reviewed: 2025 BYD Sealion 7 reviewed

Toyota Prado GXL five-seat on sale in Oz

• Toyota Australia has confirmed a more cost effective five-seater variant of its standard Prado enormous SUV. The brand new Prado GXL 5 Seat will now be provided alongside the present seven-seat configuration.

• Priced at $78,990 earlier than on-avenue costs, the five-seat GXL saves $1000 over the present three-row version variant. When factoring a drive-away price of $85,386, the five seat GXL has a increased ‘actual-world’ saving in some states ($1365 in NSW, as an instance).

• 5-seat Prado variants promise a a wonderful deal increased boot location of 954 litres, in contrast with the 906L of the seven-seater with row three stowed (to five seats). The added practicality counters the seven-seater’s broadly criticized raised boot flooring and advert hoc storage construct.

• The Toyota Prado GXL opponents rugged, off-avenue inspired household SUVs such because the $59,240 Ford Everest Ambiente 4wd, $54,400 Isuzu MU-X LS-M 4X4, and $51,540 Mitsubishi Pajero Sport GLX 4wd (all costs shown are MSRP).

READ: Toyota Prado GXL 2025: more cost effective five-seat variant priced for Australia

Audi RS3 pricing and specs printed

• Pricing and specifications had been printed for Audi’s new RS3 Sportback and Sedan high-performance executive twins.

• The brand new 2025 RS3 shall be priced from $104,800 (MLP) for the five-door hatchback, and $107,800 (MLP) for the four-door sedan. Both fashions construct the option of new Modern Red, Ascari Blue or Daytona Gray paint.

• The heart of Audi’s new RS3 is a 294kW/500Nm 2.5-litre turbocharged five-cylinder petrol engine, which sends energy thru a seven-budge dual-hold computerized to a Quattro all-wheel-drive machine equipped with a torque-splitter rear differential.

• Redesigned entrance sport seats and an all-new steering wheel construct headline the updates to the inner of the RS3. A panoramic glass sunroof, 10.1-streak infotainment machine and 12.3-streak Virtual Cockpit moreover reach traditional.

READ: Audi A3 2025 overview

Skoda’s new Elroq puny SUV scheduled for a September liberate

• Skoda Australia has confirmed the Elroq puny electrical SUV shall be released domestically in September this year. The Elroq gives as a dedicated electrical replace to the combustion-powered Skoda Karoq.

• Skoda’s Elroq shall be provided in two variants, a frightful mannequin ‘85 Make a selection’ from $54,990 earlier than on-avenue costs, and the pinnacle-spec ‘130 Years Version’, priced from $64,990 earlier than on-roads.

• Both variants of the Skoda Elroq shall be sold in Australia with a single 210kW rear-drive electrical motor and 82kWh battery. In in one more nation markets, the Elroq is provided with a smaller 55kWh battery – a tantalising funds option which would perhaps doubtless well rival BYD’s Atto 3.

• The Elroq measures 4.49 metres in size, boasts a mixed differ of 529km (WLTP), and supports 175kW fast DC charging. It is miles Skoda’s first mannequin in Australia to sport a brand new ‘Contemporary Solid’ construct language, with up to the moment, graceful touches.

READ: Skoda is ready to Elroq and roll with their all-new, all-electrical SUV that is place to hit Australia in September.

Lexus refreshes its flagship LX SUV alongside an all-new variant

• Lexus Australia has printed a wealth of new technological facets coming to the LX SUV differ, as smartly because the addition of a brand new Overtrail variant which comes with an recent Moon Wasteland paint color.

• Lexus claims the new $182,300 (MSRP – LX 500d) LX Overtrail will mix flagship luxurious with “unmatched off-avenue performance”. It affords locking entrance and rear differentials, increased-profile all-terrain tyres, and enhanced exterior styling.

• Additionally headlining the differ updates is a new 12.3-streak infotainment display, now like minded with Android Auto. Novel safety facets traditional across the differ encompass updates to self sustaining emergency braking, acceleration suppression at low speeds, win exit serve, emergency utilizing discontinue machine and a driver monitor digicam.

• The optional Lexus Enhancement Pack, on hand finest to the ‘Luxurious’ frightful mannequin LX moreover receives new tools, including 22-streak alloy wheels, moon roof and palms-free kick sensor for the powered tailgate. The enhancement pack costs an extra $5500 over traditional LX Luxurious pricing.

2025 BYD Sealion 7 Performance AWD reviewed

• Chasing Autos senior contributor Nathan Ponchard’s overview of the 2025 BYD Sealion 7 Performance AWD was once printed, and involves a beautiful comparability to Tesla’s mannequin Y, and in-depth peep on the Sealion 7’s lavish internal.

• Ponchard was once considerably impressed by the wealth of facets internal the Sealion 7, particularly at a $63,990 checklist price model. He commends the immense rear passenger consolation and legroom, and the boatload of internal tech.

• The Sealion 7 was once criticised for online page material hosting a bucking, unsettling budge, with Ponchard noting the budge-quality shortcoming is most important at sluggish speeds around metropolis.

• With a large 82.6kWh battery, two electrical motors and mixed outputs of 390kW /690Nm, the BYD Sealion 7 Performance AWD needs to be critically thought to be as a competitor to long-time supreme-selling mid-size electrical performance SUV, the Tesla Model Y Prolonged Fluctuate AWD.

READ: The supreme Chinese language-branded electrical EV on the market? (BYD Sealion 7 Performance AWD 2025 Review)

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