Car news, 20 Feb '24: Kia Tasman ute detailed, VW to support NVES, and more

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• Chasing Vehicles obtains abnormal shrimp print on Kia’s first-ever Tasman ute

• Volkswagen ID7 Tourer wagon makes world debut

• More hybrid variations of unusual Porsche Panamera luxury sedan locked-in

• Volkswagen is in favour of proposed Australian effectivity standards

• Genesis pivots on EV-finest understanding, hybrids expected from 2025 – characterize

• Ford Mustang Mach-E Make a selection reviewed

Chasing Vehicles obtains abnormal shrimp print on Kia’s first-ever Tasman ute

• The Kia Tasman will be a physique-on-frame diesel ute with a leaf-sprung rear suspension and accessible in 4×4 and 4×2 guises when it is released in mid-2025 in Australia, Chasing Vehicles has exclusively realized.
• In a extensive-ranging interview with Kia Australia product planning boss Roland Rivero, abnormal unusual shrimp print about the Ford Ranger and Toyota Hilux rival had been printed to Chasing Vehicles contributor Nathan Ponchard.

• Rivero: Tasman “will be [as much] a workhorse machine-of-the-commerce as this might perchance presumably presumably very well be for the life-style market”.
• On the very least two prototypes will reach in Australia for testing from April 2024 as Kia wraps up snowy-weather benchmarking in opposition to the Ranger Raptor in Sweden.
• The Tasman will draw a 5-important person ANCAP security rating, nab 3.5-tonne towing ability and dangle a 2.2-litre four-cylinder diesel originally – even supposing a diesel V6 has now not been dominated out as a later addition. A entirely electric version is being labored on.

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Volkswagen ID7 Tourer wagon makes world debut

• German automaker Volkswagen has overnight printed a most keen Tourer wagon version of its recent ID7 fleshy-size electric sedan
  
• Pain to be accessible in Europe with both a medium-range 77kWh or long-range 86kWh usable battery pack in First price guise, the ID7 wagon is capable of travelling up to a claimed 685km (WLTP), Volkswagen says.

• Australia is a gamble to receive the ID7 in future, even supposing it isn’t a transient possibility. Local public kinfolk manager Daniel DeGasperi urged Chasing Vehicles: “the level of hobby for Volkswagen remains to be on ID4, ID5 and ID Buzz [but we will] search for into the enterprise case of the ID7 as a extra extension of the entirely electric range”.
• The ID7 will compete in a definite segment – but increasing – all-electric wagon segment, even supposing at a decrease price level than the BMW i5 Touring and forthcoming Audi A6 E-tron.
• In conserving with the Volkswagen MEB platform, standard aspects will contain a 605-litre boot, a 210kW/500Nm rear-pressure electric motor, an augmented-reality head-up conceal, massaging electric seats and a panoramic sunroof.

More hybrid variations of unusual Porsche Panamera luxury sedan locked-in

• Sportscar marque Porsche this morning printed two extra dawdle-in hybrid grades of its unusual third-expertise Panamera luxury sedan. Both are underpinned by the impress’s 2.9-litre turbo V6 engine, albeit in diversified states of tune.
• The everyday hybrid, dubbed Panamera 4 E-Hybrid, makes 346kW of energy whereas the Panamera 4S E-Hybrid americathe total machine ante to 400kW.

• Electric driving range isn’t finalised yet, but given the pair’s total 25.9kWh battery (total size) is up Forty five p.c over the outgoing mannequin’s unit, query to switch making an are trying to safe something worship 60-80km of driving range (WLTP) when figures are launched.
• Trendy tools in Australia will absorb matrix LED headlights, a Bose stereo, 14-blueprint comfort seats with memory, a heads-up conceal and inclusion of Porsche’s mid-tier ‘Desires’ exterior paint colors.
• This day’s bulletins are on top of the 500kW Turbo E-Hybrid variant already confirmed when the most up to the moment Panamera was once unveiled in gradual 2023.
  

Volkswagen is in favour of proposed Australian effectivity standards

• Volkswagen Personnel Australia has confirmed its improve of the long flee Australian Gasoline Effectivity Trendy that is proposed to initiate on 1 January 2025.
• The Australian federal authorities has proposed three Options, labelled A, B and C, ranging from least to most stringent. All involve a measurement of rapid moderate CO2 emissions, which allow carmakers to sell any automobile they worship – but with penalties for breaching a mandated CO2 emissions determine averaged across all objects that impress sells.
• Volkswagen Personnel, which incorporates VW, Skoda, Audi and Cupra, will lobby for a personalised version of of Option B – which search for quick-moderate CO2 limits decrease from 141g/km in 2025 to 58g/km in 2029 (199-81g/km for commercial autos).

• With a identical level of view to Hyundai Motor Company Australia, Volkswagen Personnel wants to switch making an are trying to safe ingredients of Option A incorporated within the last legislation, which lets carmakers rely dawdle-in hybrid automobiles as two objects and fleshy EVs as three objects for the capabilities of calculating the usual.
• Long-time interval, the federal authorities’s proposal is designed to assist carmakers to provide more electric and hybrid autos to Australian investors by increasing a clearance pricing machine that makes decrease-emission automobiles less pricey and bigger-emission automobiles dearer.
• Volkswagen and Skoda will commence promoting entirely-electric autos in Australia this 365 days, whereas sister brands Audi and Cupra already invent so. The Personnel will launch ten battery EVs in-country sooner than the halt of 2024.

Genesis pivots on EV-finest understanding; hybrids expected from 2025 – characterize

• Every unusual Genesis mannequin launched from 2025 will be entirely-electric, but the plush offshoot of Hyundai will reportedly shift its unusual devices to hybrid powertrains quite than scrap them after that date, in step with the Korean Economy Day-to-day.

• Genesis would now not currently sell a hybrid mannequin, but it has salvage entry to to a range of closed-loop and dawdle-in hybrid powertrains by its father or mother company.
• The lifespan of key Genesis devices worship the GV70 and GV80 luxury SUVs extends past 2025, and the crossovers might perchance presumably presumably well shift to hybridised variations of their recent engines to proceed passing up to the moment emissions standards.

Ford Mustang Mach-E Make a selection reviewed

• Chasing Vehicles journalist Zak Adkins’ overview of the 2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E electric SUV was once printed this day, with the evaluate including detailed range testing and charging testing of the battery EV.
• Adkins praised the Mach-E’s roadholding and handling, noting it delivers a more taking part pressure within the corners than some rivals, including the Tesla Model Y or Polestar 2.

• In Chasing Vehicles testing, the Mach-E Make a selection grade’s 72.6kWh usable battery delivered a range of 430km on the toll road with a 50-350km toll road recharge time of half-hour and 23 seconds.
• Alternatively, it’s a pricey automobile, with even the most price-effective Mach-E on test being priced at over $80,000 driveaway – and that’s after a dramatic recent price decrease.

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