Car news, 6 November '24: Toyota RAV4 tops monthly sales charts again, Kia designers discuss Tasman design, and more

Thanks for becoming a member of us this Wednesday 6 November 2024. Severely in automobile info this day: the Toyota RAV4 one more time tops Aussie gross sales charts nonetheless the market is down overall, and Chasing Vehicles sits down with Kia’s designers to focus on the Tasman ute.

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• RAV4 tops October gross sales charts nonetheless market down overall
• Kia designers talk with Chasing Vehicles about Tasman make
• Genesis GV70: imprint and specs confirmed for facelifted SUV
• Toyota Celica and MR2 poised to accumulate a comeback?
• Reviewed: 2024 Mitsubishi Outlander GSR

RAV4 tops October gross sales charts nonetheless market down overall

• The Toyota RAV4 modified into as soon as Australia’s preferred automobile for the fourth month in a row this October, with 4841 new examples rolling into customer driveaways, sooner than the Ford Ranger (4757) and Toyota Hilux (4523) utes.

• A total of 98,375 new automobiles were delivered in October, taking the total gross sales tally to over 1,000,000 for the year-to-date.

• However, indicators of a slowing market are evident – the month comely gone modified into as soon as down 7.9 per cent on the same month final year, with the Federal Chamber of Automobile Industries also noting that the non-public investors section modified into as soon as down 14.2 per cent in October, on high of a discount of 17.2 per cent in September.

• Of the slowing market, Tony Weber, CEO of the FCAI talked about: “this does present that economic pressures are a area for families across the country”.

• Toyota modified into as soon as one more time Australia’s preferred imprint in October with 18,471 new automobiles delivered, sooner than Ford (8581), Mazda (7656), Hyundai (7086), and Kia (6602).

Kia designers talk with Chasing Vehicles about Tasman make

• The Kia Tasman’s make has been a spotlight of debate for the explanation that ute modified into as soon as unveiled final week – Chasing Vehicles sat down with senior Kia executives and two of its lead designers to search out out extra about the formulation within the assist of it.

• John Buckingham, Head of Kia Next Receive Exterior globally, told Chasing Vehicles that breaking into an entrenched and smartly-established ute market couldn’t be done “with a cookie cutter capability”.

• “It needed to be one thing new,” Buckingham talked about, including that a “striking” initial influence “modified into as soon as the arrangement”.

• Roland Rivero, Kia Australia’s in style manager for product planning talked about: “we are in a position to also contain without concerns taken that suggests of: let’s comely be take care of everybody else. But[opponentsmuchlike[rivalssuchasHilux contain]40 or 50 years of heritage and historical past in this category, so we wished to fabricate one thing a tiny bit varied and be a tiny bit extra valiant in our capability”.

READ MORE: Kia Tasman: the within tale within the assist of its polarising make

Genesis GV70: imprint and specs confirmed for facelifted SUV

• Genesis has confirmed pricing for its freshly facelifted GV70 midsize SUV which debuts an up-to-the-minute three-grade lineup in Australia featuring two powertrains ideas.

• The differ opens at $78,500 sooner than on-road costs for the entry-grade Developed which is instantly available with a 2.5-litre turbo-charged four-cylinder engine.

• A mid-spec Signature grade will seemingly be had with the same four-cylinder powertrain for $87,500 or a bigger 3.5-litre turbo V6 for $98,000.

• At final, the fracture-spec Signature Sport will seemingly be had with the four-cylinder ($89,500) or the V6 ($100,000); all costs sooner than on-road costs.

• The as much as date SUV brings with it tweaked styling, new wheel designs, upgraded security and driver assist tech, new aspects take care of a 27-inch OLED attach, as smartly as some refinements under the skin to the chassis and suspension amongst varied changes.

Toyota Celica and MR2 poised to accumulate a comeback?

• Toyota has fuelled speculation of a doable return of some of its most iconic sports activities automobile nameplates, particularly the MR2 and Celica.

• An anime series created by Toyota called ‘GRIP’ and printed to its YouTube accounts aspects a surely subtle blink-and-you’ll-leave out-it reference to a ‘Celica Mk 8’, ‘MR2 Mk 4’, ‘GR86 Mk 3’, ‘Supra Mk 6’ and ‘GR GT3’ within the background frame of a most up-to-date episode.

• The GR GT3 references a high-efficiency blueprint revealed by Toyota in 2022, nonetheless all varied references are to possible next-era fashions, with the GR86 and Supra currently of their 2nd and fifth generations, and the MR2 and Celica final having ended manufacturing with their third and seventh generations within the early 2000s.

• On the weekend Toyota also posted a lot of images of iconic older fashions including the MR2 and Celica to its Instagram memoir with the caption “what rides would you wish creep looking us bring assist?”

• Whereas no reborn fashions were officially confirmed, rumours contain swirled in most up-to-date cases, intensified by a lot of blueprint designs including a ‘FT-Se’ sports activities automobile blueprint that debuted on the Japan Mobility Dispute final year, which modified into as soon as broadly understood to preview a doable new-era MR2.

Mitsubishi Outlander GSR PHEV 2024 reviewed

• Chasing Vehicles journalist Olek Novak’s assessment of the 2024 Mitsubishi Outlander GSR PHEV modified into as soon as printed, having a peek at what’s per chance the most expensive Mitsubishi you may per chance buy comely now in Australia.

• As the 2nd-preferred happy within the crimson-sizzling midsize SUV section, the new GSR variant lays on the total fruit nonetheless comes with a hefty imprint attach that nudges $80K driveaway.

• With seven seats, plod-in hybrid electric energy and all-wheel pressure, the Outlander presents a compelling proposition in a highly aggressive market, nonetheless is it value the dough in high-spec invent?
• In this detailed assessment Novak outlines the comely, the unhealthy, and exams out Mitsubishi’s 84km all-electric differ dispute.

The next narrate of Car Info This present day will seemingly be printed on Thursday 7 November 2024 at 4.30pm Sydney time.