Celine Nolan

Genesis has published its freshest GV60 to this point, premiering its novel excessive-efficiency Magma model on the Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet, France.

Technically equivalent to Hyundai’s mighty Ioniq 5 N, the novel twin-motor Magma boasts 448kW and 740Nm, trumping the sizzling flagship GV60 Efficiency Lux’s 360kW/700Nm. Within the neighborhood, the debut Magma mannequin would without problems be basically the most extremely effective Genesis automobile supplied in Australia.

The Genesis GV60 Magma can additional its energy output to 478kW/790Nm with ‘Boost Mode’ activated, for a burst of up to 15 seconds. With the added efficiency of ‘Boost Mode’, the GV60 Magma can slump from 0 to 200km/h in 10.9 seconds.

No longer ideally suited are these identical outputs to sister firm Hyundai’s Ioniq 5 N, the 2 autos are significant the identical below the pores and skin, utilising the identical Hyundai-sourced 800-volt Electrical-Global Modular Platform.

While local specs for the GV60 Magma are no longer but readily accessible, we await specs will most likely be significant just like the Ioniq 5 N, the converse of an 84kWh battery and a combined vary of spherical 448km (WLTP).

Hyundai claims a hastily DC fee from 10-80 percent takes 16 minutes, peaking at 350kW, whereas three-phase 11kW AC charging from 0-100% is acknowledged to rob spherical eight hours.

Exterior enhancements confirmed for the GV60 Magma encompass a significant wider stance, 20mm lower scoot top, novel side skirts, revised entrance and rear bumpers, a hover and a diffuser, just a few gloss sunless external touch-ups, and ‘Magma’ 21-dawdle solid wheels carrying 275mm tyres.

The GV60 Magma additionally gains a rear digital diminutive-plug differential, three force modes, efficiency-tuned suspension with Electronic Management, better brake rotors paired with entrance monoblock calipers and efficiency pads, waft mode, and on-request simulated equipment changes.

Interior, the GV60 Magma sports activities Chamude (described by Genesis as a ‘top class suede-take care of topic fabric’) on the seats, doorways and centre console, a head-up display, signature orange and grey stitching and seatbelts, revised gloss sunless switchgear, and a Magma-engrossing sports activities guidance wheel.

The novel, extra-extremely effective GV60 will roll out to Korean markets by the stop of 2025, with European and North American deliveries to follow in early 2026. It’s anticipated that the GV60 Magma will near within the community in 2026.

Quiz the impending Aussie Magma to recount a greater notice than the $113,384 and $114,383 sooner than on-road notice benchmarks station by the sizzling vary topper Genesis GV60 Efficiency Lux DSM and twin-below-the-pores and skin Hyundai Ioniq 5 N.

Debuting the Genesis GV60 Magma in Australia may perhaps aid the Korean flagship value stable significant crucial GV60 sales over opponents Mercedes-AMG EQE and better BMW iX M60, serving to to put the 10-300 and sixty five days-feeble value on equal footing with heritage Germans.

Final 300 and sixty five days, Genesis supplied right 70 GV60s, whereas 300 and sixty five days-to-date in 2025, ideally suited 15 GV60’s beget been delivered.

Whereas the standing of midsize sedans in Australia has gradually fallen over time, the evergreen Toyota Camry has remained the fully dominant player in the affordable four-door segment — but now China’s BYD is on the brink of enter.

BYD does bask in already purchased an entrant in the midsize sedan class with the battery electric Seal, but the Seal is for the time being too costly to clutch down the Camry.

Priced between $46,990 to $61,990 plus on-aspect toll road costs, the electric Seal is upright worth in its have real, but most Toyota Camry examples delivered in Australia are the $39,990 Ascent and $42,990 Ascent Sport — in other phrases, these supplied by rideshare and taxi fleets.

BYD sees ability in the midsize sedan segment

Talking with Chasing Automobiles, BYD Australia chief product officer Sajid Hasan acknowledged that while the scale of the midsize automobile segment has fallen, it remains standard in China and which potential that, BYD develops automobiles that might perhaps properly be factual.

Mr Hasan beforehand worked as a product planning and pricing supervisor for Toyota Motor Firm Australia between 2010 and the raze of 2023.

“Now we bask in about a products in that region that might perhaps properly be a factual competitor for [the Camry],” acknowledged Hasan.

“Now we bask in about a alternatives that lets starting up in that region. Now we bask in a PHEV, as properly as an EV. We’re evaluating which is the real one to fall in and seeing how that suits with our total product strategy.

“Perchance we can bask in one thing — in the with regards to future — to remark.”

With the BEV-powered Seal already decrease to the bone in nasty Dynamic 150kW interesting, BYD Australia has confirmed that it is some distance evaluating two more affordable midsize automobiles to fit into its native lineup under the Seal sedan — in justify to compete without prolong with Camry.

The stir will be a continuation of BYD Australia’s strategy of expanding its mannequin lineup into arena of interest classes and worth segments.

Including a sub-Seal mannequin to contest the Camry segment would replicate a identical decision by BYD to carry the Sealion 5 PHEV crossover to Australia to sit down correct beneath the Sealion 6 hybrid in justify to ward off more affordable competitors.

Yr-to-date, Toyota has delivered 8508 Camry examples in Australia, compared to 3214 for the BYD Seal, 843 for the discontinued Mazda 6 and 617 for the Skoda Octavia.

Seal 06 and Qin L items seemingly being regarded as for Australia

BYD’s mooted Camry rival for Australia is liable to be either the BYD Seal 06 or BYD Qin L. Whereas both items differ somewhat in dimension and look—with the Qin carrying extra frail styling—both are readily out there in PHEV or BEV versions.

The Seal 06 will rapidly enter the European market where this will be supplied as a rival to key European taxi snappy items esteem the Skoda Octavia and Volkswagen Golf wagon.

It’s miles mercurial out there as a 1.5-litre petrol PHEV with 10kWh or 15kWh LFP batteries, and curiously, the Seal 06 hybrid can even be ordered as a sedan or a region wagon.

Excellent-hand drive production for the Seal 06 has already kicked off for Thailand, potentially making it simpler for BYD Australia to import the ‘Ocean Collection’ mannequin right here.

A sedan-most effective BEV version of the Seal 06 is furthermore readily out there as a more cost-effective and much less great replacement to the ‘fleshy fats’ BYD Seal already supplied in Australia. The electrical Seal 06 uses 46kWh or 56kWh battery packs and produces 110-160kW.

The state is of path the same for the BYD Qin L, with PHEV and BEV choices with the same vitality outputs and battery sizes because the carefully-connected Seal 06, but with utterly different styling cues — and no region wagon version.

No real-hand drive market is for the time being understood to import the Qin L, though Malaysian sources justify that the mannequin will be on its design to that real-hook nation.

BYD’s most senior executive within the Asia-Pacific voice has in point of fact helpful Chasing Vehicles that the tag will reply to customers in search of elevated off-roading capability from the Shark 6 poke-in hybrid (PHEV) ute.

Talking with this masthead first and important of the Atto 2 itsy-bitsy SUV, Liu Xueling, BYD Asia-Pacific automotive total supervisor, talked about the tag has deliberate improvements to the Shark 6 within the product pipeline.

“All of us know that customers win some complaints about the [Shark 6] product, but we can absolutely preserve on bettering and [will respond] to the purchasers,” Liu talked about, through interpreter.

As a PHEV ute, the BYD Shark 6 depends on its twin electric motors for electrified all-wheel pressure rather than used mechanical four-wheel pressure. While electric AWD affords the Shark 6 technically proper motor preserve watch over, the electronic structure has got criticism.

Currently lacking locking entrance and rear differentials, the Shark 6 depends on traction preserve watch over to brake spinning wheels below load, equivalent to while hiking slippery trails. As is same old for electric AWD, there is never always a low vary, either simulated or steady.

Concerns had been raised regarding restricted articulation, as well as the Shark 6’s moderately restricted 2500kg braked towing ability.

BYD Australia has already acknowledged that this would possibly perchance perchance simply replace the Shark 6 with industry-same old 3500kg braked towing capability within the arriving months.

However, Chasing Vehicles understands that superior off-roading expertise developed for BYD’s luxury tag, Denza — and particularly for the Denza B5 4 wheel pressure which shares a platform with the BYD Shark 6 — can also simply soon trickle the total method down to the ute.

The Denza B5, which involves Australia subsequent week, beneficial properties entrance and rear locking diffs, a simulated low-vary gearbox for crawling, adjustable suspension for additional floor clearance, and even more vitality and torque (425kW/760Nm vs 321kW/650Nm) for more performance.

We requested BYD Asia-Pacific boss Liu Xueliang whether or no longer the Denza B5’s new off-toll road parts would be transferred to the Shark 6 in 2026.

“It is appropriate that we would perchance be migrating your total winning technologies to every of our fashions,” Liu answered.

“In conjunction with your total feedback [having been received], we are positively assured [that we will] win our product higher and higher. That you would possibly perchance perchance squawk that the Shark 6 isn’t any longer the tip of our pick-up sequence — it’s handiest the originate,” he talked about.

BYD Australia chief product officer Sajid Hasan shed moderately of more light regarding future updates for Shark 6.

“We’ve got an replace to Shark 6 deliberate for 2026. We are in a position to’t squawk when but that will seemingly be, but 3.5 tonne towing ability is in point of fact appropriate one of many updates. We’ve got a pair of rather a pair of issues as well deliberate for that model,” he talked about.

The poke-in Shark has been the important success yarn of the ute segment in Australia in 2025 and a standout in a segment that has barely grown this year (up 3.5 percent).

BYD has delivered 15,181 examples of the Shark 6 to this level in 2025, seizing a for dash intensive 8.5 percent market part. Within the identical duration, volume has fallen for both the Ford Ranger (down 10.4 percent) and Toyota HiLux (down 5.1 percent).

Meanwhile, Chinese language tag GWM has delivered 2053 gadgets of its win PHEV ute — the Cannon Alpha.

Nissan has globally printed its novel fifth-generation Navara ute, designated D27, full with facts for the arrival near near Australian lineup that is confirmed to hit local showrooms in Q1 2026.

As anticipated, the Navara is all-novel (for Nissan) in that it is heavily in accordance to the most contemporary sixth-generation Mitsubishi Triton, sharing the same “alliance” ladderframe chassis and structure, the same 2.4-litre turbodiesel four-primarily primarily based powertrain and some distance of its exterior physique work.

On that, evidently very dinky of the Navara’s exterior metalwork varies from that of the Triton aside from the novel entrance fascia, the tailgate shell and chosen exterior garnish. Nissan Australia has no longer confirmed precisely how worthy exterior commonality the D27 Navara has with its Mitsubishi twin.

The novel Navara face capabilities a “bull bar impressed” V-strut defend grille dovetailed with standard-encounter C-formed headlights. Wheel designs for the vary are uncommon to Nissan’s line-up.

Nissan Australia has confirmed, despite the fact that, that the D27 will finest be supplied as a twin-cab, provided that “90 p.c of potentialities for the outgoing D23 [selected] a double cab paired with an automatic transmission”.

The consolidation of the Navara way that there will likely be no 4x2s, no cab-chassis or king/extended cab physique kinds, and no handbook transmission alternatives in this novel D27 generation.

It’s been confirmed that vitality comes from the shared twin-turbocharged 2.4-litre diesel four outputting the same 150kW and 470Nm because the Triton unit, which to 10kW and 20Nm as a lot as the outgoing 2.3-litre oiler. The outgoing N23 seven-poke automatic is replaced by a six-poke auto.

Mixed consumption beneath “preliminary specification” is quoted as 7.7L/100km, while all variants match a 75-litre tank (with AdBlue required in its score 17-litre tank). That makes for a theoretical mixed-cycle vary of spherical 974 kilometres claimed.

The contemporary D23 variant line-up carries over into the D27 generation, with the but-unconfirmed lower-grade trims – capacity SL and ST reboots – being supplied with what’s known as ‘Uncomplicated 4wd’, an on-request 4×4 system that makes use of electronic (by brake) LSD originate on the rear axle.

Each the ST-X and Legitimate-4X (or P4X for short) feature the ‘Huge 4wd’ driveline structure, which brings pudgy-time high-vary 4×4 and a Torsen-kind mechanical rear restricted sprint differential. The increased-grade versions also carry a broader series of (seven) terrain pressure modes: Long-established, Eco, Gravel, Snow, Mud, Sand and Rock.

The Navara Legitimate-4X Warrior is ”beneath pattern” by Premcar and no longer anticipated to be readily available in Q1 2026 with the broader Navara vary.

Nissan Australia printed on the local preview pressure of the novel D27 Navara that three suspension tunes will likely be readily available, presumably devoted calibrations for lower and increased grades, as successfully as a bespoke space-up for the Warrior.

The uncommon, tuned-by-Premcar Australian suspension calibrations are said to score benefitted from 365 days and spherical 18,000 kilometres of localised testing across a diversity of terrains. Energy steering is electrical, while brakes are entrance discs and rear drums.

All versions of the Navara will reach with 3500kg of braked towing functionality, with 350kg of towball download. “Preliminary specifications” score mainline (non-Warrior) variants at 2120-2140kg kerb, with a GVM of 3190kg and GCM of 6250kg.

Payloads for the twin-cab finest lineup is between 950kg and 1047kg reckoning on the variant.

Internal wise, worthy the exterior, the Navara ports rather a few Mitsubishi DNA – critically the sail fascia – despite the fact that the Nissan suits a explicit wheel attach.

Media wise, a 9.0-inch touchscreen unit is fitted across the vary that capabilities DAB+ and encompass glance digicam system, while phone connectivity is wireless Apple CarPlay with wired Android Auto. Elsewhere, the instrument cluster is a 7.0-inch TFT attach, while wireless phone charging is strange on the ST-X and P4X grades.

Security wise, the Navara suits eight airbags, ahead self ample emergency braking, lane departure warning and lane back, blind quandary monitoring, lane substitute back, entrance and rear defective traffic signals, driver monitoring, adaptive cruise preserve an eye on and emergency back for pedal misapplication, combating unintended acceleration.

More definitive Australian specifications and pricing will reach to light nearer to the D27 Navara’s local launch in Q1 subsequent 365 days and preserve tuned for pudgy pressure of the novel-gen ute soon.