Car news, 22 Feb '24 Subaru slashes Solterra prices, updated VW Touareg detailed, and more

Thanks for joining us this Thursday February twenty 2d 2024. Notably in car news these days: more critical aspects on Volkswagen’s Touareg facelift, and the logo’s Scirocco would possibly possibly well well very successfully be reborn as an EV sports activities car. Plus, a late lopping of genuinely extensive money from the associated price of the Subaru Solterra.

Browse this distress:

• Subaru deal reduces Solterra pricing factual earlier than Australian launch
• 2024 Volkswagen Touareg to be more aggressive on price
• Volkswagen Scirocco would possibly possibly well well very successfully be reborn as an EV sports activities car
• Mazda BT-50 axed in NZ attributable to low sales and emissions
• Reviewed: 2024 BMW i4 eDrive35

Subaru Solterra price drops by $8000 earlier than launch

• In a dramatic 2d days earlier than the launch of the car, Subaru Australia has deal dropped the associated price of its upcoming Solterra electrical midsize SUV.
  
• Pricing now begins at $69,990 earlier than on-dual carriageway prices for the unique Solterra AWD – $8000 much less pricey than earlier than, whereas the up-spec Touring grade has dropped by $6700 to $76,990 earlier than on-roads.

• Subaru says the adjusted pricing will comply with to all fresh pre-orders for the car – so fresh traders received’t be expected to fork out the authentic price when they rob shipping.
• The cost trade brings the Solterra nearer into line with key opponents treasure the Tesla Mannequin Y – whereas all eyes are on Toyota for how it prices its twin to the Solterra, the BZ4X. An announcement will seemingly be made by Toyota subsequent week.

• As a part of the acquisition with the Solterra, five years of servicing and roadside help plus a dwelling GPO charging cable are incorporated.

2024 Volkswagen Touareg to alter into more sensible in Australia

• Volkswagen Australia has confirmed that it will “price-reposition” it’s Touareg expansive SUV in 2024, making the model more sensible than the pricing of the outgoing SUV.

• The news comes after Volkswagen’s local arm cut pricing by $12,000 for the outgoing Touareg differ in teach to shift stock of the pre-facelift model in Australia.

• Paul Pottinger, Volkswagen Community total supervisor of corporate communications: “we openly admit that we would possibly possibly very successfully be more aggressive with a broader selection of cars.”

• Pricing for the time being begins from $89,240 earlier than on-dual carriageway prices, and is as great as $117,540 earlier than on-dual carriageway prices for the 210TDI R-Line with out factoring within the $12K manufacturing facility bonus.

• Volkswagen is hopeful to sell more Touaregs than earlier than. In 2023, it sold 921 examples, nonetheless in 2015 sold in great greater numbers, with 2568 units shifted.

• The logo will launch the excellent-anticipated Touareg R slump-in hybrid flagship in 2024 with outputs of 340kW/700Nm at a price of $129,990 earlier than on-dual carriageway prices.

Volkswagen Scirocco would possibly possibly well well very successfully be reinvented as an EV sports activities car: stutter

• The Volkswagen Community would possibly possibly well well revive the Scirocco name and switch it into an electrical sports activities car, in step with unique experiences by Autocar.

• The UK outlet states that alongside with a future Audi TT and likewise the upcoming electrical Porsche Boxster and Cayman, Volkswagen would possibly possibly well well construct its subsequent sports activities car on the upcoming PPE platform.

• The PPE platform is determined to also underpin the lately-published Porsche Macan EV and the Audi Q6 E-Tron

• In response to the same platform as the standard Golf, the Scirocco nameplate first entered production in 1974, and was once reinvigorated for a third skills in 2008.

• Query to hear more about the long term Scirocco within the next yr or two

Mazda BT-50 axed in Original Zealand attributable to low sales amid emissions diagram penalties

• Mazda Original Zealand has launched it will pull its BT-50 pickup from market in 2024 and has known because it “the pinnacle of an skills” for the model

• Mazda told NZ outlet Stuff that “the market has modified deal over the final few years: the budge towards SUVs, a wiser uptake of electrified vehicles, and most lately the Dapper Automobile Program fill all influenced particular person tastes”.

• Appropriate 347 units were registered in Original Zealand all the design in which thru 2023, which was once deal much less than the BT-50’s preferrred competitors, the Toyota Hilux and the Ford Ranger, alongside with the Volkswagen Amarok and Nissan Navara.

• Up till December 2023, the Original Zealand Executive has had a dapper car good aquire diagram that made EVs and hybrids much less pricey whereas successfully making greater-emission cars more costly. The lately-elected National authorities repealed the affiliation.

• Australia is determined to introduce a gas efficiency commonplace of its fill all the design in which thru 2024, and is seemingly to fill equal systems to the NZ, Europe and North The US

2024 BMW i4 eDrive35 reviewed

• Chasing Vehicles contributor Dylan Campbell’s written evaluate of the 2024 BMW i4 eDrive35 Variant was once published.
• Campbell praised the entry-stage i4, which offers customers with accepted BMW rear-wheel drive dynamics at a price that qualifies for key federal authorities EV incentives.

• The i4 eDrive35 variant has been positioned to qualify for a elephantine fringe earnings tax (FBT) waiver for leasing customers as a outcome of it is priced below the mandatory luxurious car tax (LCT) threshold for 2024.
• Campbell famed that the finishes of the entry-stage i4 are now not uniformly luxurious, and neither is the rear seat extensive, nonetheless famed that the utilizing dynamics are polished and enjoyable, paying homage to BMW’s worn RWD structure.

READ: BMW i4 eDrive35 2024 evaluate

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