Car news today: AMG’s four-cylinder flop, shock sporty EV pricing, cut-price Kluger rival revealed and Ram’s new ‘secret weapon’ Car news today: AMG’s four-cylinder flop, shock sporty EV pricing, cut-price Kluger rival revealed and Ram’s new ‘secret weapon’

Thanks for joining us on February twenty fifth 2025. It’s an thrilling Tuesday with AMG seemingly admitting its four-cylinder hybrid flopped, Cupra’s contemporary sporty electric automobile being priced to promote, MG’s contemporary Kluger challenger revealed early and Ram’s ‘secret weapon’ within the speed to decarbonise.

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• AMG’s four-cylinder flop! V8 will return to C63’s coupe replace
• 2025 Cupra Tavascan: Sporty Tesla Mannequin Y and Kia EV5 rival’s mark shock
• Pick up willing, Toyota Kluger and Hyundai Santa Fe, slash-mark MG seven-seater is coming
• Exceptional ute brands’ ‘secret weapon’ to cope with gas use and support clients happy
• Keeping topless sublime alive: Mini Cooper S Convertible 2025 review

AMG’s four-cylinder flop! V8 will return to C63’s coupe replace

• Reviews from the UK’s Autocar recount the C63 Coupe-changing CLE 63 to skip the C63 S E Efficiency’s four-cylinder hybrid and win a contemporary twin-turbo V8, following unhappy reception of the move-in C63.

• The V8 is predicted to be a style of the ‘M177’ twin-turbo 4.0-litre V8 recount within the final C63 which ditches its inappropriate-plane for a flat-plane crank first considered within the the AMG GT Black Sequence. No longer most efficient will this enable greater revving, nonetheless additionally more compact protest. A relaxed-hybrid system is additionally in style.

• Following its birth within the CLE 63, which turned into spied testing at the Nurburgring, insiders save a question to the hot C63 to dump its hybrid four-cylinder undertake the twisted-eight at some level of a mid-existence refresh in 2026.

2025 Cupra Tavascan: Sporty Tesla Mannequin Y and Kia EV5 rival’s mark shock

• Cupra has confirmed pricing for its second electric automobile, the Tavascan. Bigger than the Born, it competitors the Tesla Mannequin Y and Kia EV5 with Cupra’s signature sporty edge.

• You are going to be in a location to partly thank tariff-free imports from China for the Tavascna’s spectacular $60,990 (earlier than on-aspect freeway charges) birth mark.

• Two-ravishing fluctuate starts with 534km riding fluctuate ‘Patience’ and tops out with punchy 250kW/545Nm VZ flagship. Heaps of customisation on provide.

Pick up willing Toyota Kluger and Hyundai Santa Fe, slash-mark MG seven-seater is coming

• The long-expected MG three-row household SUV now seems confirmed to be called the QS after government approval documents had been filed on Monday.

• Documents recount front and all-wheel power versions will each use a 153kW 2.0-litre turbo-petrol four-cylinder mated to a 9-speed computerized nonetheless there’s no hybrid powertrain listed.

• Esteem contemporary MG HS, the QS is a rebadged China-market Roewe mannequin, this time the RX9. Other important facets consist of a 2000kg braked tow rating, 4983mm dimension, 1967mm width and that a sunroof is not very any longer mandatory.

Exceptional ute brands’ ‘secret weapon’ to cope with gas use and support clients happy

• Outspoken Ram boss Tim Kuniskis told US media the contemporary Ramcharger fluctuate extender is the ‘secret weapon’ in his arsenal to cope with emissions and placate clients who aren’t willing to creep electric.

• No longer most efficient must easy the fluctuate-extender predicament-up enable for 1100km riding fluctuate, it’s additionally expected to rocket the 3400kg pick-up from 0-100km/h in below 5.0 seconds. Bet 480kW will attain it — indulge in that, BYD Shark and Ford Ranger Raptor.

Keeping topless sublime alive: Mini Cooper S Convertible 2025 review

• Contributor Stephen Dobie samples the Mini Cooper S in topless convertible guise in Europe before its Australian birth.

• Dobie doesn’t indulge in that the ‘contemporary’ Mini convertible isn’t precisely box-original under, nor that gearshift paddles are an no longer mandatory additional. These chasing appropriate sports activities automobile thrills are easy greater served in an MX-5…

• …nonetheless the Mini is not very any longer any flabby mess, with Dobie praising the relaxing facing stability, solid powertrain and charming inner. Plus, the actual fact something easy and joyous exists must easy be infamous

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