Car news, 5 Mar '24: 2024 Tesla Model 3 Performance breaks cover, Lexus GX pricing, and more

Thanks for becoming a member of us this Tuesday March Fifth 2024. Critically in automobile files on the present time: Facelifted 2024 Tesla Mannequin 3 Efficiency has been caught undisguised in Spain, revealing puny print in regards to the noteworthy-anticipated dual-motor EV, and Lexus Australia has launched decent pricing for the upcoming luxurious 4×4 twin to the Toyota Prado.

Browse this distress:

• Facelifted Tesla Mannequin 3 Efficiency surfaces with puny print
• Lexus GX luxurious 4×4 SUV pricing officially revealed
• Hyundai targets extra-practical electric N cars
• Subsequent-period Subaru Forester on the vogue, but we’ll ought to wait until 2025
• Reviewed: Subaru Solterra 2024

Facelifted Tesla Mannequin 3 Efficiency surfaces with puny print

• Thanks to photos leaked on social media platform X, we contain the most straight forward undisguised look but on the upcoming Tesla Mannequin 3 Efficiency.

• Wearing unique-look 20-creep wheels, subtle front and rear restyling, sport-look enhancements and bespoke seats, the hotfoot-hasty dual-motor variant appears to be like production willing in what’s reported to be a characterize/video shoot in Valencia, Spain.

• Reportedly to be badged the Mannequin 3 Ludicrous in some markets, it’s anticipated that the twin-motor layout will surpass the 393kW mixed output of the outgoing Efficiency while improving on that mannequin’s 3.3sec 0-100km/h acceleration.

• Showcased within the pictures in either purple, white or unlit paintwork, the 2024 Tesla Mannequin 3 Efficiency is anticipated to originate its global debut, full with production specification puny print, interior the next couple of months.

Lexus GX luxurious 4×4 SUV pricing officially revealed

• Lexus Australia has launched decent pricing for its GX 4×4 SUV that begins from $116,000 earlier than on-boulevard costs for the entry GX 550 Luxurious.

• The three-clear lineup is bolstered by the mid-spec GX 550 Overtrail from $122,250 list, and topped by the flagship GX 550 Sports actions Luxurious from $128,200 list.

• This ninth period is the first time the GX will be offered in Australia, due on sale mid-300 and sixty five days, offering both five- and seven-seat configurations, all boasting 3.5L twin-turbocharged petrol engines with 260kW and 650Nm.

• Verify out our critiques of Chasing Automobiles editor Tom Baker putting both the Overtrail and the Sports actions Luxurious variants through their paces on- and off-boulevard on the realm commence of the noteworthy-anticipated Land Cruiser-derived off-roader.

WATCH: Lexus GX pricing TikTok wrap-up!

Hyundai targets extra-practical electric N cars

• Hyundai is organising more inexpensive performance EV objects to take a seat below its $111,000 Ioniq 5 N and impending, linked Ioniq 6 N sedan.

• Hyundai chief technical adviser Albert Biermann suggested Chasing Automobiles that more inexpensive electric N cars, priced nearer to contemporary ICE counterparts, is “absolute precedence #1” in light of reviews that petrol i30 N and i20 N objects are to be axed from European sale.

• The fundamental metric for hot electric objects within the works is the the same “or even the next stage of riding fun” than the hot Ioniq 5 N, Biermann says, “at a extra practical segment”.

• To cap costs, it’s feasible that N skunkworks would possibly presumably per chance well select for Hyundai’s Integrated Modular Structure (IMA) platform moderately than the pricier E-GMP underpinnings, while adopting a extra price-effective 400-volt moderately than the Ioniq 5 N’s 800-volt structure.

Subsequent-period Subaru Forester on the vogue, but we’ll ought to wait until 2025

• Subaru Australia has revealed that an all-unique model of the midsize Forester SUV appears to be like liable to contrivance down below in early 2025.

• The importer guarantees that the Toyota-co-opted e-Boxer hybrid powertrain blueprint will be on hand at commence, while stopping fast on confirming turbocharged alternatives or the fitment of the carryover 2.5L boxer and CVT layout, as slated for imminent US market unencumber.

• Formally revealed slack final 300 and sixty five days, the unique sixth period is expounded in size to the hot gen five, sits on a mildly enhanced carryover platform and formulation an evolutionary ‘boxy’ exterior construct and a enormously revamped interior.

• Subaru Australia says its “working with the manufacturing facility” about landing a prolonged-awaited, all-terrain-augmented Wasteland variant for the local lineup.

Subaru Solterra reviewed

• Chasing Automobiles journalist Olek Novak’s commence review of the 2024 Subaru Solterra become once revealed, according to vast on-boulevard and sporadic off-boulevard riding on the Australia mannequin commence in Queensland.

• Novak came across that the riding skills is basically tuned for pleased commuting and touring, despite the indisputable truth that coronary heart-pumping performance isn’t a precedence for Subaru’s first-ever fully-electric mannequin.

• Solterra launches in two dual-motor AWD versions, in well-liked and high-grade Touring guises, every offering 160kW and 337Nm in total outputs while promising spherical 416km of peak vary WLTP.

• In summary, Novak chanced on the Solterra and predictable newcomer to the growing EV panorama, if one which presents Subaru loyalists an enticingly original twist to the emblem’s deep-seeded traditionalist conventions.

READ: Subaru Solterra 2024 written review

WATCH: Subaru Solterra 2024 video review

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