Car news today: Tesla’s updated Model Y will have seven-seat option, new BMW 2 Series Gran Coupe locked in for Australia, and more – 16 October 2024

Thanks for becoming a member of us this Wednesday 16 October 2024. Notably in automobile recordsdata this day: Tesla has confirmed its updated 2025 Mannequin Y shall be supplied with seven seats for the first time, and BMW Australia publicizes pricing and spec for its new 2 Sequence Gran Coupe.

Browse this drawback:

• Tesla Mannequin Y to make seven seats in Europe
• Novel BMW 2 Sequence Gran Coupe priced for Australia
• Electrical BYD Sealion 7 debuts in Paris
• Novel Chinese tag Skywell coming to Australia
• Reviewed: 2024 Porsche 718 Cayman Model Model

Tesla Mannequin Y to make seven seats… no longer less than within the UK

• Global electrical automobile producer Tesla has confirmed this may perhaps occasionally perchance well introduce a seven-seat version of its standard Mannequin Y midsize SUV within the UK by early 2025.

• Beforehand a reserved function for the Mannequin X SUV, a seven seat configuration for the Y with a third row offering two extra seats shall be supplied for the first time.

• The Mannequin Y shall be dwelling to make a suite of upgrades to prepare what we’ve considered within the Mannequin 3, so anticipate to mark a brand new 8.0-walk rear touchscreen, extra top fee within affords and dinky adjustments to its exterior perform.

• It’s unclear if or when the Mannequin Y will make this higher seating blueprint for Australia, but the switch to upgrade is practically no doubt to be supplied right here.

• The Tesla Mannequin Y turned into as soon as the cease-selling EV in Australia in 2023, having sold 28,769 examples within the neighborhood over the 12 month period.

Novel BMW 2 Sequence Gran Coupe to advance Q1, 2025, priced from $58,800

• BMW Australia has confirmed pricing and the arrival date for its new 2 Sequence Gran Coupe.

• Starting from $58,800 ahead of on-road charges for the 218, the Gran Coupe can even be available within the market in M235 xDrive guise, priced from $85,500 ahead of on-road charges.

• Powered by a turbo three-cylinder engine in putrid 218 guise (115kW/230Nm) or a extra sprightly turbo four-cylinder in M235 guise (233kW/400Nm), the 2 Sequence Gran Coupe will expend a twin-snatch computerized transmission.

• Well-liked package for the 218 entails 18-walk M gentle alloy wheels, adaptive LED headlights, adaptive M suspension, a 10.25-walk cockpit show hide and 10.7-walk touchscreen, head-up gift, Veganza synthetic leather-based totally upholstery and wi-fi charging.

• The cease-spec M235 xDrive will add higher 19-walk M gentle alloy wheels, electrical rubdown and lumbar toughen for the entrance seats, driving assistant authentic, Harman Kardon sound way, M rear spoiler, M Sport brakes accomplished in Darkish Blue and a panoramic glass roof.

• The brand new BMW 2 Sequence Gran Coupe will advance in Australia within the first quarter of 2025.

BYD Sealion 7 electrical SUV debuts, confirmed for 2025 Australia birth

• BYD Automobile has debuted its next mannequin, the electrical Sealion 7 SUV, at the 2024 Paris Motor Exhibit to rival the Tesla Mannequin Y.

• Positioned as a extra simply, SUV version of the present BYD Seal, the Sealion 7 shall be the first to be constructed in BYD’s new Hungary plant.

• The mannequin will utilise an 82.5kWh battery pack and the possibility of both rear- or all-wheel drive.

• Well-liked aspects encompass BYD’s 15.6-walk rotating touchscreen, a 10.25-walk digital instrument cluster, Dynaudio sound way, leather-based totally seat upholstery and a panoramic sunroof.

• BYD Australia has already confirmed that the Sealion 7 shall be the next mannequin it makes a speciality of for Aussie shores. It’s unclear whether or no longer Australian-delivered Sealion 7s shall be Chinese or Hungarian constructed examples.

Heard of Chinese automaker Skywell? It’s coming soon to Australia

• It is probably going you’ll perchance perhaps perchance no longer possess heard of rising Chinese automaker Skywell, but it’ll be launched in Australia soon.

• At the present Paris Motor Exhibit, the tag announced a brand new electrical hatchback, simply called Q, with extra than 482km of differ.

• The brand new mannequin shall be half of the BE11 electrical SUV within the tag’s differ. The BE11 will possess a maximum battery ability of 86kWh and an electrical differ of 490km (WLTP).

• EV Automobile, the native Australian distributor of electrical products constructed by Skywell, will birth the BE11, to be within the neighborhood most frequently known because the EVA 5 SUV, on our shores soon.

• Skywell is a reasonably new tag having launched in Nanjing, China, in 2017. It’s owned by the Nanjing Golden Dragon Bus firm, with its critical opponents being BYD, Chery and SAIC Motor.

Porsche 718 Cayman Model Model reviewed

• Chasing Cars Production Manager Tom Plot’s review of the 2024 Porsche 718 Cayman Model Model turned into as soon as printed, in conjunction with his solutions on the discontinue of its manufacturing and the highest way successfully the stalwart sportscar drives.
• Plot stumbled on the designate enticing, the cabin very driver focused and the overall driving experience of the mid-engine 718 a match for challenging punters’ lofty expectations.
• On the other hand, Plot notes that the cabin tech is showing its age and that the taut nook-carving structure can change into fatiguing for longer-haul touring.
• In short, Plot celebrates that this interior combustion icon remains on sale this day (if now out of manufacturing) and laments that this 718 recipe shall be build to pasture soon enough, in 2025.

The following drawback of Automobile News At the present time shall be printed on Thursday 17 October at 4.30pm Sydney time.