Car news today: The Ford Capri is back as an SUV, BYD’s Shark ute spotted in Melbourne, and more – 11 July 2024

Thanks for becoming a member of us this Thursday July 11th 2024. Notably in automobile news this day: The Ford Capri is abet, but nothing love how we’ve considered it earlier than, and BYD’s upcoming Shark ute has been noticed on Melbourne roads.

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• Ford Capri debuts as sedan-model SUV
• BYD Shark ute noticed on Aussie roads
• GWM builds its 600,000th Cannon ute
• Many inner Sydney streets poke limits cut to actual 40km/h
• Reviewed: 2024 Mercedes-AMG GLC43

Ford Capri reborn as an electrical SUV with Volkswagen underpinnings

• Ford Europe has resurrected the Capri nameplate for the first time in 37 years in the achieve of an all-electrical SUV. And it’s added two doorways and electrical energy to the distinctive recipe.

• Primarily primarily based on Volkswagen MEB platform underpinnings, the gentle Capri has a extremely identical carry out to the current Polestar 2, taking the shape of a sedan-SUV body model.

• Energy will reach courtesy of either a rear-drive or dual-motor electrical system. The rear-drive mannequin will manufacture 210kW of energy, while the dual-motor will manufacture 250kW. The Capri can lumber to 100km/h in as small as 5.3 seconds.

• The SUV’s battery size will be 77kWh, with estimated vary to be up to 627km (WLTP) for the rear-drive and up to 592km (WLTP) for the dual-motor.

• Confirmed equipment contains a huge 14.6-trot centre touchscreen, B&O sound system and 19-trot alloy wheels (21-trot wheels are non-compulsory). The electrical Capri is yet to be confirmed for Australia.

BYD Shark noticed on Australian roads

• The extremely-anticipated BYD Shark has arrived in Australia, with an eagle-eyed Chasing Cars reader finding one in website visitors in Melbourne.

• The Shark is anticipated to open in Australia this three hundred and sixty five days and could just be fitted with BYD’s 1.5-litre DMI inch-in hybrid system. It’s been confirmed to fabricate 320kW of energy with the abet of two electrical motors.

• BYD’s first ute for Australia is decided to private an electrical-simplest vary of around 100km and could just be in a field to tow 2500kg braked, which is about 1000kg down on this day’s conventional ute benchmark in Australia.

• The Shark will be surely one of among the finest utes in the Australian segment to utilize a inch-in hybrid system, on the opposite hand the Ford Ranger will be in the market with the technology when it launches here in 2025.

600,000 Sizable Wall Cannon ute rolls off its Chinese manufacturing line

• GWM has announced that the 600,000 instance of its Cannon ute has rolled off its assembly line in Jingmen, Wuhan, China.

• The logo achieved that purpose in just four years and ten months, exhibiting the poke Chinese automakers are working at to fabricate gentle vehicles for world markets.

• The Cannon lineup is produced in the Jingmen Dapper Factory which moreover produces units alongside side the Tank 400, Tank 500, King Kong Cannon and the Haval H5.

• GWM invested a foremost USD$825 million (AUD$1.2 billion) into this Dapper manufacturing facility, with mass manufacturing first kicking off abet in 2022.

• Primarily primarily based on Automobile News China, for every two pickups offered in China, one is a GWM product.

Comparatively an excellent deal of Inner Sydney’s streets diminished to actual 40km/h

• The City of Sydney has announced this could perchance be decreasing the fee restrict across many of Sydney’s inner suburbs to 40km/h.

• The guideline will be aware to regional and native roads that even private a 50km/h poke restrict, and could just consist of the suburbs of Glebe, Wooded field Hotel, Beaconsfield and Waterloo.

• The council has moreover announced that many streets in Annandale, Redfern, Alexandria, Zetland and Woolloomooloo will moreover private their poke limits diminished to 40km/h.

• “Stories private proven that the survival charges for americans hit by a automobile tremendously enhance at lower speeds love 40km/h,” Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore, acknowledged.

• “We are able to moreover proceed to work with Transport for NSW to cut poke limits to 30km/h in town centre and other high process areas where there are an excellent deal of americans walking and riding,” Moore acknowledged.

• The City of Sydney will initiating putting in gentle poke signs in the coming weeks.

2024 Mercedes-AMG GLC43 reviewed

• Chasing Cars founder Tom Baker’s overview of the 2024 Mercedes-AMG GLC43 become as soon as published, alongside side his thoughts on the mannequin’s change from V6 to four-cylinder energy.
• Baker found that the GLC43 had improved handling, immediate stages of acceleration, solid brakes and a steady exercise present. He moreover praised the cabin’s top fee materials.
• Parts to enhance for the GLC43 incorporated creaky interior plastics, high stages of gas consumption, costly outlay for a four-cylinder and dear to provider.
• In conclusion, Baker acknowledged that the GLC43 is a slick and candy drive and is the next automobile than the one it replaces, but it falls down by being thirsty and no longer in particular cheap.

READ: Link to written overview

The following field of Automobile News On the present time will be published on Friday 12th July at 4.30pm Sydney time.