Car news, 21 Feb '24: Toyota Hilux 48-volt priced, Cupra reveals Born VZ, and more

Thanks for becoming a member of us this Wednesday February Twenty first 2024. Severely in automobile news this day: Toyota begins to shift its well-liked Hilux ute in direction of electrification, and Cupra bites befriend at these who snarl the Born isn’t a hot hatch…by introducing a hot new 240kW tune.

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• Pricing for Toyota Hilux light hybrids confirmed
• Cupra Born VZ published as most highly efficient electric Cupra
• Volvo renames XC40 and C40 as EX40 and EC40

Toyota Hilux 2024: pricing confirmed for set up spanking new light-hybrid variants

• Toyota has announced pricing for its facelifted Hilux vary that’s determined to debut 48-volt expertise on selected units.

• The refreshed Hilux lineup – which goes on sale from March – will reportedly lift as a lot as 10 percent in gas savings, nonetheless prices will also upward thrust across the board by between $500 and $1600.

• The 48-volt light-hybrid machine, which Toyota is looking out V-Packed with life expertise, will doubtless be no longer primary on SR 4×4 double-cab auto variants and traditional on the vary-topping SR5 and Rogue double-cab auto variants, with assorted additional adjustments across the vary from a slight refresh to the open air styling and spec updates.
• The light-hybrid machine differs from well-liked Toyota hybrids in that the Hilux obtained’t be pushed in a pure EV mode fancy plump-hybrid vehicles.

• Costs for the newly facelifted hybrid Hilux vary are as follows:
  • SR double-cab chassis: $54,130 (+$1025)
  • SR double-cab pick-up: $56,210 (+$1605)
  • SR5 double-cab chassis: $60,580 (+$590)
  • SR5 double-cab pickup: $63,260 (+$770)
  • Rogue double-cab pickup: $71,530 (+770)

Sizzling new Cupra Born VZ published

• Cupra has announced this would possibly maybe maybe furthermore lift a spicier version of its Born electric hot hatch to market known as the Born VZ.

• The electrical hatch will create seriously more energy and torque than earlier than for the VZ neat, up from 170kW/310Nm to 240kW/545Nm and can continue to be rear-wheel force most efficient.

• More highly efficient than a Volkswagen Golf R, the Born VZ is on Volkswagen Group Australia’s desire listing, and can open on local shores in the first half of of 2025.

• The Born VZ no longer most efficient provides more energy and torque, nonetheless a quite bigger 79kWh-usable battery, DCC sport suspension, no longer primary Cup bucket seats and a brand new inexperienced exterior paint colour known as Darkish Forest.

• The Cupra Born VZ will compete in opposition to assorted smaller performance electric cars equivalent to the MG4 XPower, the Abarth 500e and the upcoming Mini Cooper SE.

Volvo renames XC40 and C40 as EX40 and EC40

• Swedish automaker Volvo has unswerving officially standardised the naming of two of its key electric units as the emblem transitions to electric most efficient.

• The XC40 Recharge runt SUV will now be known as the EX40, whereas the C40 Recharge runt SUV will also peep a name exchange, and will doubtless be known as the EC40.

• Volvo Cars Australia director of public family members, Greg Bosnich advised Chasing Cars that from MY25, the C40 will transition to its new name EC40.

• Issues aren’t as certain for the EX40. Bosnich: “EX40 is at narrate being evaluated for our market and will doubtless be a field of a later announcement”.

• Globally, this would possibly maybe maybe furthermore lift the 2 units into the same naming structure as Volvo’s assorted latest EV reveals, including the upcoming EX90 (which would be a part of the present combustion XC90), the EM90 luxury contributors mover and the EX30 runt SUV.

• Volvo Cars Australia says this could occasionally be one among the first importers in Australia to offer most efficient electric cars as shortly as 2026, nonetheless will adopt an electric-most efficient lineup globally by 2030.

The next dispute of Automobile Info Nowadays will doubtless be printed on Thursday twenty second February at 4.30pm Sydney time.