Celine Nolan

Genesis has persevered on a roll of unveiling lush scheme vehicles at motor
displays, with the luxurious marque of Hyundai Motor Company (HMC) this
afternoon whisking the covers off a pair of two-door study in step with the
G90 limousine.

Identified as the X Gran Coupe (no relation to BMW) and X Gran Convertible,
the immense and dramatic ideas celebrate the tenth anniversary of
Genesis as an honest producer within HMC and are acknowledged to
“point out the logo’s future reveal…via obvious typologies.”

Whereas the frequent dimension and scale of the immense G90 four-door sedan has been
maintained, alterations like a decrease roofline, more steeply-raked
windscreen and frameless windows clearly differentiate the two
precisely silver-accented ideas that evoke ‘personal luxurious’ tropes
of ‘80s The United States.

The ideas riff on standard Genesis make accents by widening the
designate’s signature two-line headlights whereas the crest grille good points 3D
grille mesh inspired by metal strings. The fenders are wider than on the
G90 sedan to accommodate a mighty broader track.

The Gran Coupe and Gran Convertible are understood to utilise the
turbocharged, 3.5-litre petrol V6 powertrain suited to the everyday G90
sedan, which produces as mighty as 305kW of vitality and 549Nm of torque
with a top stride of 250km/h.

The G90 saloon is no longer supplied in Australia, despite the truth that it is supplied in Genesis’
house market of South Korea as successfully as North The United States and Europe.

Previous the strikingly proportioned exteriors, which deploy separate
interpretations of 5-spoke wheel designs, the interiors are acknowledged to bear
been inspired by Mediterranean olives (in the case of the Gran Coupe)
and the cabernet sauvignon purple wine grape (Gran Convertible).

Both cabins are swathed in leather tanned the utilization of wastewater from Italian
olive oil manufacturing whereas the interiors are fully free of chrome. The
leather mask (green and tan in the mounted-roof automobile, grape blue in the ‘vert)
extends the total manner to fully-quilted roof lining.

Embossed wood tremendous good points in each scheme interiors in a deep delivery-
pore navy for the Gran Convertible—which is a cozy-top—whereas a pure
veneer is dilapidated for the Gran Coupe.

Lengthened doorways as compared with the sedan are meant to support entry and
egress to the 2nd-row seats, whereas an aluminium daylight hours opening on
each objects sees Genesis eschew standard ‘sunless pack’ aesthetics.

Both ideas glean modern steering wheels with an aluminium third spoke
and suppose rotary dials, whereas the inner rim showcases prominent
deviated stitching.

If constructed, rivals for the ideas would take in the likes of the Mercedes-
AMG GT and SL twins, the BMW 8 Series, and the Porsche 911.

Genesis is exploring modern classes of luxurious sports activities vehicles at the identical time
because it prepares launch a Magma differ of excessive-performance variants, as
successfully as open participation in motorsport, by technique of the FIA World
Patience Championship and IMA Sportscar Championship in 2026 and
2027 respectively.

At this week’s Seoul Mobility Reward, the logo is displaying a half of-scale
mockup of the GMR-001 hypercar that wil symbolize the logo in each
disciplines from subsequent year.

Three years after it launched in its dwelling market of South Korea, the Hyundai Ioniq 6 exclusively-electrical sedan has received a total facelift that slims down visible vital points while further emphasising the model’s dedication to aerodynamic effectivity.

Dubbed by its maker because the “electrified streamliner”, the revised Ioniq 6 ditches the conventional version’s sizable headlight assemblies for considerably more avantgarde ruin up models combining a skinny daytime working gentle above a neat main beam assembly.

Flatter bonnet styling items as more of a two-dimensional form while the front apron loses its old vertical canards to emphasise the width of the sedan.

Plus, a original N Line version joins the worldwide differ in a deliver in self assurance to produce consistency across Hyundai’s models and to carry out a more assertively-detailed replacement to the identical old version.

At the rear, the convoluted spoiler plot of the conventional Ioniq 6 has been replaced by an prolonged ducktail, while radical alloy wheel designs characteristic across the facelifted differ.

Nearly all of the sources expended on the facelift had been focussed on cleansing up the exterior plot, with minimal adjustments to the Ioniq 6 cabin taking in guidance wheel and door dapper arena topic alterations and the addition of a higher local weather administration panel.

The incoming N Line’s reign at the high of the Ioniq 6 lineup will most certainly be immediate-lived, on the opposite hand, because the existence of the Hyundai Ioniq 6 N has been at the original time confirmed for the main time—beforehand, it changed into as soon as most effective teased (extensively) by the existence of the RN22e prototype version.

Hyundai Motor Firm Australia (HMCA) has already confirmed that this will lift the Ioniq 6 N to Australia as an “vital halo model”. The automobile will most certainly be exclusively published in mid-2025 and could perchance reach Aussie shores in early 2026. This is able to perchance spend core Ioniq 5 N mechanicals.

That will most certainly be about six months after HMCA launches the facelifted Ioniq 6 in Australia in the second half of of 2025. The N Line version has no longer been locked in at this stage but could perchance be a part of the differ at start, or later.

HMCA concedes that the Ioniq 6 is a rather behind seller for the impress and that there stays genuinely intensive stock of the sedan on the bottom in Australia. It’s seemingly that further trace cutting will most certainly be viewed to obvious that stock before the advent of recent steel.

Since start the Ioniq 6 sedan has been a arena of interest automobile for Hyundai in Australia, with its 2024 and 2023 supply numbers (374 and 623 respectively) dwarfed nearly fiftyfold by these of its chief rival, the Tesla Mannequin 3 (17,094 and 17,347).

Yet the Ioniq 6’s blend of accurate-world effectivity, supple scramble quality, sexy dynamics and a excessive-quality cabin had been ample to gaze it acquire the Chasing Vehicles Automobile of the twelve months title in 2023 in a reflection of its pattern.

Mild, the Ioniq 6’s rather excessive pricing in Australia (from $67,300 sooner than on-motorway funds, or $73,300 BOCS for a protracted-differ version) locations it nearer to top fee competition than the omnipresent Tesla sedan (from $54,900 BOCS).

Whether the advent of the facelift in Australia will coincide with a tricky—but in all chance well-known—decision to reposition the pricing of the “electrified streamliner” is no longer yet known.

A name could perchance even be made to slim down the Ioniq 6 differ in the community, which for the time being sits at six variants spanning $67,300 to $86,500 BOCS with fifty three.0kWh and 77.4kWh batteries readily accessible to Australian possibilities along with quite a lot of rear-wheel force and all-wheel force.

The sibling to the Ioniq 6, the hatchback/SUV-fashioned Ioniq 5, is faring about three instances higher in the Australian gross sales speed with that model taking part in 933 local deliveries in 2024.

To this point this twelve months, the Ioniq 5 N ($110,383 BOCS) excessive-performance model which launched in Australia ultimate twelve months—and which shares key internals with the Ioniq 6 N—has stumbled on 57 Australian shoppers in the main three months of 2025.

Hyundai is doubling-down on powertrain guess-hedging with at the moment’s expose of the unusual, second-know-how Hyundai Nexo hydrogen fuel cell electric automobile (FCEV) bringing comprehensive upgrades to powertrain and driving vary while ushering in a replacement of name-first functions.

The unusual Nexo has already been confirmed for Australia for a first half of of 2026 start date. Hyundai operates a miniature hastily of leased Nexos alongside side Australian government and company operators.

What’s going to hit bystanders first is the unusual comely for the Nexo, which ditches the previous mannequin’s earnest visage for a more charismatic shape evoking Eighties and Nineties American crossover styling tropes—including a C/D pillar therapy that will remind about a of Walter White’s Pontiac Aztek.

We mean that in a valid manner, though, since the Nexo’s comprehensively transformed styling will get many more of us drawn to the automobile—though we favor, in section, that the form had been saved for a automobile with a more in-place a matter to powertrain form.

The core energy-electronics machine and fuel cell of the outgoing Nexo have been retained, but their traits have all been upgraded.

On the energy-electronics entrance, an even bigger battery and more energy (190kW plays 135kW) has resulted in a drastic slice to the 0-100km/h acceleration time, with the unusual Nexo making the benchmark flee in 7.8 seconds.

The Nexo can now snatch on marginally more hydrogen (6.69kg, up on the aged Nexo’s 6.33kg tank) but fuel effectivity has additionally improved, which ought to aloof enable about a five percent manufacture in driving vary from 666km (WLTP) within the outgoing model to “more than 700km”.

The economy features attain attributable to aerodynamics, but additionally a brand unusual motor and a excessive-effectivity inverter.

Most importantly, the Nexo retains its signature theoretical advantage over within the same model-sized battery EVs: it finest takes five minutes to fully refuel, mighty esteem an interior combustion automobile.

We are announcing “theoretical” because hydrogen refuelling infrastructure is scarce globally and supremely rare in Australia where finest Toyota and BMW have displayed ephemeral ardour in FCEV passenger autos in most modern years.

Hyundai Motor Firm Australia (HMCA) says there are 9 operational hydrogen refuelling stations in Australia, spanning Sydney, Canberra, Perth, Brisbane, and two in Melbourne, with a extra eight refuelling stations being constructed.

That infrastructure helps the 35 previous-know-how Nexos at this time deployed by HMCA in Australia on leases. Most are flee by the Australian Capital Territory government (20 units) and Queensland government (five units) with about a sprinkled between gasoline companies, HMCA, and the Korean Embassy in Australia.

HMCA no longer too long ago upgraded its maintain hydrogen refueller in Sydney, which is now able to producing 20kg of green hydrogen (electrolysed by solar vitality fairly than by manner of fossil fuels, as is frequent) on an supreme sunny day.

That might presumably be on the subject of enough green hydrogen to refuel three unusual-know-how Nexos on a supreme day.

HMCA says it has no longer yet made up our minds whether the unusual-know-how Nexo will proceed to be a rent-finest proposition or whether this would maybe promote autos outright. Chasing Vehicles understands that, if sold, the previous-know-how Nexo would have price smartly over $100,000 forward of on-street charges.

Readers might maybe wonder why Hyundai has invested carefully in upgrading the Nexo—including the unusual exterior and interior styling—and the respond is that it’s a ways a mighty more connected automobile in its dwelling market of South Korea.

In 2022, Hyundai sold more than 10,000 Nexo FCEVs in Korea; in 2023 and 2024 the numbers were about 4000 and 3000 respectively because the mannequin grew older. There is a substantial FCEV hastily on Korean roads and mighty more enormous refuelling infrastructure.

Nevertheless hydrogen refuelling in American and European markets—as soon as as soon as more frequent—has change into difficult as some refuellers are no longer replaced, and operators double down on battery electric (BEV) charging infrastructure to complement used petrol/diesel refuelling.

Externally, the unusual Nexo fits “four-dot” headlights and 18-shuffle wheels as long-established while digital aspect mirrors aid to decrease its coefficient of trudge. The Nexo ushers in a brand unusual form language for Hyundai dubbed “art work of metal”.

An accessible color, “Goyo Copper Pearl,” makes use of a three-coat list route of so that you might shifting tones underneath diversified lights.

Within, the Nexo fits Hyundai’s excessive-cease leisure electric entrance seats in artificial leather-esteem arena cloth with heating and cooling, a unethical and joined infotainment inform their personal praises, as smartly as reclining rear seats.

Forward of this week’s Seoul Mobility Explain, Hyundai revealed a wild high-efficiency belief of its Inster exiguous electric SUV known as the Insteroid at a inside of most tournament within the South Korean capital.

Below the ’80s-inspired, rally automobile-esque create of the Insteroid sits the working gear of the 478kW/740Nm Hyundai Ioniq 5 N honest-EV whole with twin electric motors and an 84kWh usable battery.

Hyundai is being coy regarding the motive of the Insteroid, but senior executives inflamed regarding the immediate three hundred and sixty five days-lengthy construction grunt the electric hot hatch is a “credible” product that unearths how Hyundai will interrogate to allure to a youthful period of efficiency automobile customers at a lower cost point than the Ioniq 5 N ($110,383, sooner than on-twin carriageway bills).

“They may be able to’t come up with the money for the Ioniq 5 N, so let’s possess a automobile for [younger buyers],” Nicola Danza, exterior create manager for Hyundai Motor Europe, told Chasing Autos at Insteroid’s Seoul point to.

“We preserve listening to that the youthful period don’t like vehicles and are no longer attracted to vehicles. I don’t have faith that is entirely animated. They’re lacking the apt automobile to plunge in worship with.”

Insteroid and RN24 prototypes provide many hints

Chasing Autos understands that Hyundai has commenced construction of a lower-cost high-efficiency EV.

With the Insteroid belief, the Korean marque’s European create studio has led the early a part of the styling effort, whereas the N efficiency automobile division was as soon as tasked with getting a working prototype of the working gear onto the note.

N Division’s part within the project was as soon as revealed in December 2024 when pick out media private been invited to drive the RN24 prototype — short for N Rolling Lab 2024.

Whereas the RN24 has smaller wheels and tyres, lacks a roof and doors, it looks to share principal with the Insteroid—including the powertrain.

Judge of the Insteroid as your next step in direction of a production mannequin; the exoskeleton lined with an extroverted widebody extension of the Inster electric automobile’s fundamental shape.

The Insteroid’s major points are a European-penned homage to ‘80s hot hatch heroes like the Renault 5 Turbo and Lancia Delta Integrale.

The matte white and orange Insteroid wears immense 21-walk alloy wheels (with aero covers at the entrance) shod in sticky 295-huge (entrance) and 345-huge (rear) Pirelli tyres.

We realize the wheelbase to be 2660mm, being between the Inster (2580mm) and Ioniq 5 N (3000mm).

Inside of, sustainable provides honest bucket seats geared up with Sabelt harnesses. A racing steering wheel has “a will have to private” bodily controls and a dwelling of essential gauges exhibiting speed, boost region and diverse readouts.

A protruding handbrake triggers waft mode.

Just like the Ioniq 5 N, the Insteroid generates animated-to-existence ‘engine’ sound. Positive concepts to the Ioniq’s noise period emboldened Hyundai to possess an exterior speaker on the Insteroid’s posterior extra visible, whereas the soundtrack is a construction of the Ioniq 5 N’s.

“We realised [sound] was as soon as a the truth is fair conception to retain on. Here’s your next step. Some years inspire [we became] disquieted to point to the use because it manner pollution but you don’t need to veil it anymore. It is fair a speaker, so let’s proudly point to it,” explained Danza.

Why is the Insteroid no longer a Hyundai N mannequin…yet?

Exterior colourway apart, the Insteroid looks to be like as if an N automobile, quacks like an N automobile and it looks goes like an N automobile—the elephant within the room is for run the question of why the Insteroid is no longer an N-branded belief.

The motive looks to be that the closing production format has no longer yet been settled. Whereas the RN24 and Insteroid are sibling prototypes, Hyundai isn’t ready to sigh an Inster N—or any more cost-effective efficiency N automobile. Nevertheless such an announcement is anticipated within the future.

“[RN24 and Insteroid] are two separate styles of merchandise. [N] produces exact issues, extreme efficiency vehicles,” stated Danza. “With this create belief, we desired to scrutinize ahead to what comes subsequent. If [N Division] can private the back of that later, even better.”

“It is a riding prototype,” Danza explained to Chasing Autos. “We venerable the Ioniq 5 N [powertrain] and e-GMP platform, shortened within the suspension effect. For safety, you don’t want to [push] it too principal. The capabilities are there, but I don’t have faith anybody would want to drive that manner in an conception automobile.”

The subject is that, as Danza made clear, the youthful period to whom the Insteroid is designed to allure can not come up with the money for the expense of the extremely-sophisticated ingredients discovered within the Ioniq 5 N—and which private been venerable to possess the Insteorid prototype drive and steer.

The Ioniq 5 N’s twin-motor setup comprises huge amounts of active cooling in expose to offer sufficient stamina for 15-minute stout-effort racetrack riding as well to extremely-immediate charging capabilities afforded by its costly and colossal 800-volt battery packs.

As a result, we question that a production version of the Insteroid would substitute in a less premium drivetrain, perhaps primarily based on a less expensive 400-volt platform. The proportions of the Insteroid belief are rear-wheel drive orientated but a roadgoing Inster N may per chance furthermore even be entrance-drive…

…other than that Chasing Autos understands that a extra cheap 400-volt EV platform imposes thermal administration and charging speed compromises that N Division aloof isn’t blissful accepting. N Division has overtly debated this subject for a chain of years.

And thus taking the Insteroid to production is at a stalemate till the subject of whether N can fall from the Ioniq 5’s sophisticated but very costly 800-volt structure to an tailored 400-volt platform that extra customers will seemingly be in a spot to come up with the money for.

Hyundai’s procedure is seemingly so that you simply can offer a high-efficiency Inster N (or diverse exiguous electric N automobile) that is succesful of attracting customers who entered the ‘N’ fold by the relate of doable combustion vehicles like the i20 N ($35,500) and i30 N (from $50,000, each and every sooner than on-twin carriageway bills).

This kind of automobile would give Hyundai the loads of to compete with emerging cheap electric efficiency vehicles like the MG4 XPower, Cupra Born VZ, and Mini Cooper JCW.

If an acceptable compromise can even be struck to enable an Inster N to enter production, it would naturally take a seat atop the twin carriageway of Inster exiguous electric SUVs that open in Australia in Might also 2025 with pricing to initiate below $40,000 for the 85kW, entrance-wheel drive traditional vary mannequin.

“Just like the off-twin carriageway inspired Inster Fallacious derivate proven at Inster’s debut in 2024, [the] Insteroid is one more step within the fresh-selling production [Inster] mannequin’s chase,” claimed Hyundai’s press open announcing the belief that.

Once the Insteroid departs the Seoul Mobility Explain, Hyundai plans to point to it at “main auto occasions in key markets”. Whether or no longer that comprises the next Hyundai Australia N note day remains to be seen.

MG QS

Automotive form: Colossal seven-seater SUV
Open: Q2

Although MG’s midsized SUV, the HS, hasn’t loved the the same success because the ZS compact SUV, the logo is heading into gigantic-SUV territory for the first time with the QS seven-seater.

As with MG’s diverse SUVs, inquire of a mode of drivetrain alternatives comprising regular petrol engines, hybrid, and even walk-in hybrid (PHEV) as it takes on key opponents that contain the Hyundai Santa Fe, Kia Sorento and Toyota Kluger.

Slight print for the QS PHEV drivetrain luxuriate in but to be revealed, however the petrol variant would perhaps be offered as either a FWD or AWD, and enjoy a 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine mated to a 9-velocity old computerized.

The identical engine featured in the Chinese language market’s Roewe RX9 sister vehicle produces 150kW and 350Nm.

Pricing would perhaps be anticipated to initiate shut to $40,000, with the smaller, midsize HS at exhibit priced from $40,990 for the most costly dapper grade.

MG ES5/S5

Automotive form: Compact electrical SUV
Open: Q2 possible

ES5 is one other fresh nameplate for MG in Australia, although the model is an oblique replacement for the ZS EV compact electrical SUV.

The ES5 will face extra opponents than its predecessor, with the upcoming Kia EV3 in the mix alongside with the likes of the Neat #1, Jeep Avenger and, later this year, the Skoda Elroq.

Promisingly, the ES5 small SUV is built on the the same Modular Scalable Platform architecture as our sleek favourite MG, the MG4 electrical hatch. It’s miles powered by a 125kW/250Nm rear-mounted electrical motor.

The ES5 is possible to be offered with either a 49.1kWh or 62.2kWh battery, providing either 425km or 525km of driving vary looking on wheel size.

MG7

Automotive form: Colossal sedan
Open: Second half 2025

After introducing Australia’s most price-effective sedan in the collect of the MG5 in 2023, MG is stepping a size up with the MG7 that will develop right into a extra thunder rival to the Toyota Camry.

Australian facts are but to be revealed, although the MG7 would perhaps be anticipated to undercut the hybrid-handiest Camry that starts from $39,990 – while beginning above the MG5 that prices between about $25,000 and $28,990 power-away.

In in a single other nation markets, the MG7 is offered in two front-wheel-power variants: a  138kW/300Nm 1.5-litre turbocharged four-cylinder paired to a seven-velocity twin-cling auto, or a 192kW/405Nm 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder paired to a old 9-velocity computerized and electronic restricted-bolt differential.

A hybrid MG7 is also on the playing cards.

MG HS Hybrid+ and PHEV

Automotive form: Midsize SUV
Open: Second half 2025

The fresh 2025 MG HS is determined to fetch a hybrid and walk-in hybrid drivetrain offering by June 2025. The hybrid HS is anticipated to initiate at round $37,000 (RRP), and the PHEV at round $42,000.

As a mid-size hybrid or walk-in hybrid five-seater SUV, the predominant opponents of the MG HS would perhaps be the $forty five,100 Hyundai Tucson hybrid, $42,260 Toyota RAV4 GX 2WD, and $52,990 Peugeot 3008 hybrid.

While Australian-explicit powertrain offerings are but to be confirmed, it is a ways possible the PHEV MG HS will utilize the 220kW/350Nm 1.5-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine and electrical motor combo offered in the UK market.

In the UK, mixed gasoline consumption is quoted as 0.5L/100km for the PHEV. The 24.7kWh battery can support a most EV driving distance of 75 Miles (120km).

The hybrid MG HS will utilize a same petro-electrical region-up because the MG3 Hybrid+, although inquire of better outputs for the bigger vehicle.

ICE handiest 2025 MG HS Essence overview

MG5 (security update)

Automotive form: Midsize sedan
Open: Second half 2025

Australian reception to the MG5 has been shaky, after it scored an ANCAP rating of 0 in the the same year it launched (2023). MG has promised to revise the protection of the MG5 and re-originate the vehicle in 2025, although warns of a tag manufacture bigger for what’s at exhibit the nation’s most price-effective sedan.

The ‘security pack support’ will contain Self adequate Emergency Braking, Speed Abet methods, Lane Abet methods and Pedestrian Security security methods as viewed in diverse MG units.

MG3 (security update)

Automotive form: Hatchback
Open: Second half 2025

The MG3 fared better in self reliant shatter sorting out than the MG5, even though it level-headed scored handiest three out of five stars.

MG will later this year introduce further security instrument, extra driver help aspects, and structural improvements in the hope of boosting its ANCAP rating to as a minimum four stars.

Label increases are possible, however.

IM Offered by MG Motors imprint originate

Automotive kinds: IM6 electrical SUV and IM5 electrical sedan
Open: April

MG is gearing as a lot as originate its upmarket “IM Motors” imprint in Australia on the Melbourne Motor Show in April.

Two closely connected electrical autos will headline the originate – the IM5 sedan and IM6 SUV.

The IM6 SUV is offered in China with primarily 800V electrical architecture and a mode of battery alternatives ranging from 83kWh to 100kWh. As such, ability driving ranges differ from 625km to 802km.

The least bit mighty guise with a 400V architecture, the IM6 crude model produces 216kW and 450Nm.

The tip-spec twin-motor all-wheel-power model produces 579kW/800Nm, and aspects equipment a lot like air suspension, ‘tank flip’ ability, and a 20-speaker sound system are offered.

Search files from the IM6 to target the Tesla Mannequin Y in pricing, although the SUV’s 4.9-metre length is a closer match for a luxury electrical SUV such because the BMW iX that prices from extra than $130,000.

The IM5 sedan aspects the the same vary of drivetrain and battery alternatives. A rear-wheel-power 100kWh battery variant is offered, with a claimed driving vary as excessive as 850km.

Equally to the IM6, the IM5 would perhaps be priced closer to bigger spec variations of the same Tesla – in this case the Mannequin 3 – although is sized closer to the BMW i5 that’s priced from extra than $155,000.

Pricing for the two units is now not but confirmed, although would perhaps be revealed on the Melbourne motor repeat that begins fifth April.