Car news today: facelifted Tesla Model 3 Performance priced, BYD confirms Shark ute name, and more – 24 April 2024

Thanks for becoming a member of us this Wednesday April twenty fourth 2024. Significantly in automobile news this day: the Tesla Mannequin 3 Efficiency has been printed and priced for Australia, and BYD has confirmed its ute will indeed be known as ‘Shark’.

Browse this fret:

• Facelifted Tesla Mannequin 3 Efficiency printed and priced for Australia
• BYD ute will most certainly be known as Shark, anticipated to debut at Beijing Motor Show
• Next-generation Honda Accord sign printed
• Reviewed: 2024 Audi A3 35 TFSI Sedan
• Reviewed: 2024 Skoda Octavia RS Wagon

Facelifted Tesla Mannequin 3 Efficiency printed and priced for Australia

• Tesla overnight printed a facelifted and upgraded version of its Mannequin 3 Efficiency electrical sports sedan with more energy, bucket seats, elegant adjustments to repeat the customary Mannequin 3’s original ‘Highland’ mid-existence update, and a sticky label sign of $80,900 sooner than on-street costs – $2500 cheaper than its pre-update iteration.

• The US EV specialist broke from custom by offering no longer no longer up to a well-liked tenet as to the energy on provide: “greater than 500 horsepower (373kW)”, generating a US-market 0-60mph (96km/h) time of 2.9 seconds.

• That ought to level-headed translate into a 0-100km/h time of round 3.0 seconds flat, whereas a Song Mode enables the driver to customize regen braking, front-rear balance and stability withhold watch over to their liking, echoing the same mode in the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N.

• Recent adaptive dampers device their debut in the Mannequin 3 Efficiency – a suspension uplift over the customary passive (nonetheless frequency-selective) dampers in the well-liked items.

• The old Mannequin 3 Efficiency turned into no longer differentiated from Long Differ items out of doorways, nonetheless the brand new edition gets its indulge in front and rear diffusers and an uncommon wheel device. Inside of, efficiency sports seats for the time being are fitted.

BYD confirms its ute will most certainly be known as the Shark

• Chinese automaker BYD has confirmed that its first ute will most certainly be known as the Shark, following on with assorted ocean sequence names such because the Seal sedan, Seagull hatch and the Dolphin little automobile.

• While the Ford Ranger and Toyota Hilux rival has no longer but been formally printed, the confirmation of the establish comes as anticipation grows for the primary-hyped new vehicle.

• To be launched as a bolt-in hybrid first, with a fleshy-electrical version to follow in a while, the Shark has been spied broadly in original months in camouflaged variety, and likewise more no longer too long in the past fully undisguised.

• It’s that you just should well also think referring to the Shark – a crucially crucial vehicle for the Chinese price as it continues to amplify in Australia – could be formally unveiled in fleshy on the upcoming Beijing Motor Show which opens on April 25th, with the pickup anticipated to inaugurate in the community in Australia sooner than the kill of 2024.

Next-generation Honda Accord sign printed

• Honda’s 11th-generation Accord will fee $64,900 driveaway when it launches in Australia next month.

• The worth is a $3000 expand over the outgoing Tenth-generation model which retailed for $61,900 driveaway, and likewise puts the brand new Accord in Tesla Mannequin 3 territory.

• Launching exclusively with hybrid energy, the brand new Accord will most certainly be obtainable in a sole e:HEV RS grade which is probably going to fragment the identical powertrain because the CR-V midsize SUV’s e:HEV powertrain that makes for 135kW/335Nm.

• The brand new Accord will debut in a protracted-declining midsize sedan phase in Australia dominated by the Toyota Camry, with the Accord shifting finest 144 items in the community when when put next with 7808 for the logo’s absolute best-promoting vehicle, the midsize CR-V SUV.

Audi A3 35 TFSI 2024 reviewed

• Chasing Autos deputy editor Curt Dupriez’s video overview of the 2024 Audi A3 35 TFSI sedan turned into printed, taking an in-depth gape at one among the more pragmatic Audis that you just should well also aquire.

• Dupriez effectively-known that the little sedan measured up favorably against opponents admire the Mercedes-Benz A200 and BMW 220i Gran Coupe, on the opposite hand he puzzled its overall effectiveness at delivering an accurate top class ride when viewed in isolation.

• Presumably controversially, Dupriez found that the Toyota Corolla ZR sedan would device a unbiased rival for this automobile – a great deal cheaper, equally and doubtlessly more severely filled with facets, and delivering a a great deal more compelling and gasoline-efficient hybrid intention.

• Total, Dupreiz found that the 35 TFSI sedan turned into level-headed a nice automobile to power, with sound dynamics. Within the kill, on the opposite hand, he found that the upper-spec 40 TFSI Quattro could be the upper and more “top class” aquire, as well to noting that it could possibly possibly also be worth ready to gape what adjustments a rapidly to debut facelift on the nameplate will affirm

WATCH: Audi A3 35 TFSi Sedan 2024 video overview

Skoda Octavia RS wagon reviewed

• Chasing Autos journalist Olek Novak’s overview of the 2024 Skoda Octavia RS wagon turned into printed, revisiting the effectively-regarded fourth-generation vehicle sooner than an incoming facelifted version debuts later this 300 and sixty five days.

• Novak found that the RS wagon – which turned into topped Chasing Autos 2022 Automotive of the Yr – level-headed delivers a compelling all-round proposition, noting its dual capability to bring solid efficiency credentials on a titillating power, nonetheless also affect strongly as a each day family runabout.

• While Novak’s sentiments had been obvious, he also lined off your entire adjustments we can demand to gape in the facelifted model – which contains more energy and tech – and whether the up to this point version could well be worth the wait for traders.

• Besides to this, Novak effectively-known the ever-diminishing phase the Octavia RS wagon operates in – applauding the indisputable truth that the vehicle continues to cruise the flag for a phase which many a host of automakers be mindful long since abandoned.

WATCH: Skoda Octavia RS wagon 2024 video overview

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