Car news today: Toyota axes petrol SUVs and passenger cars, Ford Ranger tops the sales charts, and more – 05 June 2024

Thanks for becoming a member of us this Wednesday June 5th 2024. Particularly in automotive data on the contemporary time: Toyota Australia axes petrol powertrain from its SUV and passenger automotive units, Ford Ranger tops the gross sales charts for a portray month, and more.

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• Toyota axes petrol-ideal cars and SUVs wherever a hybrid would possibly perchance be available in the market
• File new-automotive deliveries in Might well perchance as Toyota and Ford dominate
• Toyota, Honda and Mazda admit security testing errors
• BMW unveils ‘new-technology’ 1 Sequence
• Toyota Prado hybrid taking a peek dangerous for Australia on towing and emissions grounds
• Reviewed: 2024 Mazda 3 G20 Evolve hatch

Toyota axes petrol-ideal cars and SUVs wherever a hybrid would possibly perchance be available in the market

• Toyota has announced this would possibly perchance occasionally cease pure-petrol variants all the blueprint thru all units where hybrid-electrical automobiles are presently available in the market.

• The announcements arrangement that the RAV4 midsize SUV, the Corolla Sedan, the Corolla Corrupt small SUV and Kluger good SUV will join the Yaris Corrupt small SUV, Corolla small and Yaris compact hatches, the C-HR small SUV and Camry sedan in being offered solely with hybrid powertrains all the blueprint thru their lineups.

• The transfer arrangement that price of entry will upward push all the blueprint thru all affected units, with the contaminated model hybrids – commanding a $2500 designate top class over contaminated petrol counterparts in the case of the RAV4 and Corolla Corrupt SUVs – turning into the entry expose each and every nameplate.

• Toyota’s purely petrol-powered efficiency units including the GR Supra, GR86, GR Corolla and GR Yaris are unaffected by the transfer, as are all Land Cruiser, Prado and Fortuner SUVs and the Hilux ute.

• So a long way this 300 and sixty five days, 46.6 p.c of all Toyotas offered had been hybrids (up from 33.5 p.c all the blueprint thru all of 2023) and units akin to the RAV4 repeatedly put up a hybrid half of gross sales bigger than 90 p.c.

READ MORE: Toyota Australia drops petrol engines wherever a hybrid would possibly perchance be available in the market

File new-automotive deliveries in Might well perchance as Toyota and Ford dominate

• A new automotive offer portray used to be situation in Might well perchance, with 111,099 units rolling into customer driveways – the all-time most effective consequence for the month.

• Toyota used to be once another time the dominant model with 23,389 deliveries recorded, adopted by Ford on 8806, pushing Mazda into third situation (8002), adopted by Kia (7504) and Hyundai (6495).

• Australia’s most neatly-liked automotive used to be once another time the Ford Ranger ute (5912), which used to be adopted by its arch-nemesis, the Toyota Hilux (5702), then Toyota RAV4 midsize SUV (5517), Isuzu D-Max (2612) and Toyota Land Cruiser (2578).

• Hybrid and wander-in hybrid automobiles saw solid increases, turning in 15.8 p.c market half (compared to 7.9 p.c closing 300 and sixty five days), with electrical automobiles rising to 8.1 p.c market half, compared to 7.7 p.c for the the same month closing 300 and sixty five days.

READ MORE: What are Australia’s most neatly-liked cars?

Toyota, Honda and Mazda admit security testing errors

• It has been revealed that so much of predominant Japanese automotive brands including Toyota, Honda and Mazda contain didn’t conform with government security requirements on hundreds of automobiles delivered to customers, prompting a pause in cargo on so much of nameplates, including the Yaris Corrupt small SUV available in the market in the neighborhood.

• Reuters reports that Japan’s transport ministry said that the brands were chanced on to contain both manipulated or submitted wrong take a look at data when making utilize of for certification of sure automobiles in assessments performed over the closing decade.

• While an investigation is persevering with – including an on-residing inspection of Toyota’s headquarters – small print reported so a long way in in a single other nation media including Car Data voice that Toyota undertook testing that it claims used to be more stringent than that required by the Japanese government, however it absolutely did so without acquiring the obligatory approval.

• Of the present-technology automobiles affected by the safety breach, ideal the Yaris Corrupt is available in the market in the neighborhood by Toyota, with orders paused till government officials in Japan suppose compliance.

• Toyota Australia has told Chasing Cars “we’re knowledgeable that no longer one in all the Yaris Corrupt SUVs presently for sale or working on Australian roads has any security or efficiency problems”, while Mazda Australia has told Chasing Cars that none of its in the neighborhood offered automobiles are affected by the info.

BMW unveils ‘new-technology’ 1 Sequence

• BMW has pulled the covers off what it’s calling a new fourth-technology ‘F70’ 1 Sequence small hatchback, bringing with it revised exterior styling, up so a long way powertrains, and new interior revamp when it goes on sale in Australia in the fourth quarter of this 300 and sixty five days.

• While it’s being known as a new fourth-technology pretty than a mid-life facelift, the construct is a remodeling of the F40 1 Sequence that has been on sale since 2019, sporting a restyled body with a new grille, headlights and tail-lights moreover higher dimensions general.

• Two variants will be available in the market at originate including the 118 and M135 xDrive, which adopt BMW’s new numeral-ideal naming conventions for ICE units, and which each and every ranking power bumps on their previous iterations.

• Huge changes apply thru to the interior, which gets BMW’s most neatly-liked Working Arrangement 9 technology, a new steering wheel, and the combination of BMW’s dual bent displays for the driving force instrument cluster and central media expose.

READ: Extended protection of the new 1 Sequence demonstrate

Toyota Prado hybrid taking a peek dangerous for Australia on towing and emissions grounds

• While the new-technology Land Cruiser Prado 250 Sequence is available in the market with a turbo petrol hybrid engine globally, Toyota has revealed why the automotive looks to be dangerous for Australia, no matter noteworthy of the automaker’s lineup switching to solely hybrid powertrains.

• Before everything, there are concerns that the Prado hybrid’s gasoline financial system and towing credentials aren’t compelling enough to entice Australians to glide hybrid over a diesel.

• Secondly, Toyota would want to sell a critical quantity of over 10,000 per 300 and sixty five days for the hybrid to interpret its prices to build the automotive in apt-hand force.

• Thirdly – and perchance most problematically – the Prado hybrid offered in a single other nation would possibly perchance perchance no longer aid Toyota lower its moderate CO2 emissions – which would possibly perchance perchance be a critical dimension under Australia’s upcoming Novel Vehicle Emissions Requirements (NVES) – for the explanation that powertrain is more centered on power and refinement pretty than decreasing gasoline financial system.

READ MORE: Toyota Prado hybrid dangerous for Australia extended protection

Mazda 3 G20 Evolve Hatch reviewed

• Chasing Cars journalist Olek Novak’s review of the 2024 Mazda 3 G20 Evolve Hatch used to be published, revisiting the aging small automotive that no longer dominates the Australian gross sales charts the arrangement it dilapidated to.

• Novak chanced on that whilst the Mazda 3 isn’t a supreme small automotive, the G20 Evolve Hatch used to be a likeable, sporty and fun-to-force automotive, also noting a standout interior which is relationship neatly five years put up originate.

• While Novak chanced on there used to be so much to esteem in regards to the 3, drawbacks that would lengthen some merchants are the darkish interior, critical rear blind spots, and firm lumber.

• Overall, Novak applauded the incontrovertible truth that the Mazda 3 runs its hang flee with its care for type, driving dynamics and quality interior, noting that while it would possibly perchance perchance no longer attraction to all merchants, the incontrovertible truth that it exists as a replace to what can typically actually feel esteem a ‘sea of sameness’ in the small passenger automotive and SUV world, is a steady ingredient.

The subsequent pronounce of Car Data On the contemporary time will be published on Thursday 6th June at 4.30pm Sydney time.