Car news today: Audi promises more ICE model launches beyond 2026, Cupra outlines Aussie rollout through 2027, and more – 19 March 2025 Car news today: Audi promises more ICE model launches beyond 2026, Cupra outlines Aussie rollout through 2027, and more – 19 March 2025

Thanks for becoming a member of us this Wednesday March nineteenth 2025. Particularly in automobile recordsdata on the present time: Audi commits to ICE model launches beyond 2026, and Cupra outlines its native model rollout thru 2027.

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• Audi commits to new ICE model launches beyond 2026
• Cupra outlines model rollout for Australia
• Alfa Romeo calling time on petrol-powered Giulia and Stelvio
• Audi A5 to commence from below $80K…possibly with out an Avant option
• Reviewed: 2025 Maserati GranTurismo Modena

Audi revises fat-EV targets and commits to new ICE units beyond 2026

• Audi AG had backpedalled on prior plans to stay the introduction of ICE-primarily primarily based units beyond 2026.

• A anecdote within the Financial Conditions quotes Audi chief govt Gernot Dollner as citing that “with the delayed transformation in opposition to electrical mobility we now must assess these [EV-only] dates and deadlines”.

• Audi AG had beforehand announced that it will probably probably possibly well no longer commence new ICE-primarily primarily based units beyond 2026 with a sight that the Ingolstadt-primarily primarily based Volkswagen Neighborhood build would trip all-electrical by 2032.

• The anecdote additionally states that Audi’s working profits had dropped 38 per cent in 2024 from the twelve months prior and plans to shed 7500 jobs by 2029. It’s additionally been proposed that Audi units sold within the US would possibly perchance possibly perchance cop necessary mark will enhance in allowance for recent US government tariffs, as the emblem does no longer fabricate vehicles stateside.

Cupra outlines model onslaught thru to 2027

• Cupra has outlined its model line-up thru to 2027 promising a frequent portfolio for what stays a challenger build peaceable battling for gross sales traction within the Australian market.

• Talking to Chasing Vehicles on the commence of the Tavascan EV this week, head of product Jeff Shafer defined that something of a delayed model rollout has been strategic, but there’s a slew of novices due soon, with the July arrival of the Terramar ICE/hybrid model following Tavascan.

• Q3 of 2025 will witness the delayed commence of the facelifted Leon exiguous hatchback and Formentor midsize crossover, every nameplates of that are currently supplied within the neighborhood. The debut of the Sportstourer wagon will comprise identical timing. An upgraded Born will round out 2025.

• Past 2025, Cupra plans to debut its compact Raval electrical automobile in 2026, followed by a brand new, yet-to-be-named huge SUV some time in 2027.

Alfa Romeo calling time on petrol-powered Giulia and Stelvio

• Alfa Romeo is dropping the axe on the wondrous 2.9-litre twin-turbocharged V6 and 2.0-litre turbo petrol four versions of the Giulia sedan and Stelvio SUV, striking the Quadrifoglio badge to leisure for every aging nameplates.

• Manufacturing for petrol Giulia will stay on the stay of this month, with petrol versions of Stelvio following onto the decreasing block in April, per a memo despatched to European sellers.

• The circulate comes after the Quadrifoglio versions were a ways off from sale within the US market final twelve months. It’s anticipated that every Giulia and Stelvio will proceed to be produced for a time in diesel develop easiest.

• Timing suggests that petrol inventory ought to peaceable remain accessible in most markets — including Australia — thru 2025. Alfa Romeo Australia has yet to drawl any ‘changes’ to the native Giulia and Stelvio lineups.

Audi A5 to commence below $80K…but Avant wagon option is in quiz

• Audi’s new-generation B10 A5 is position to commence mid-twelve months from $seventy nine,900, undercutting the entry facets of key competitors in BMW 3-Series (from $92,900) and Mercedes-Benz C-Class (from $87,800).

• Simplest the pricing of the entry Sportback five-door liftback has been printed, which is powered by a 150kW turbocharged petrol four with forty eight-volt ‘soft hybrid plus’ help. The A5 will seemingly be joined by S5 variants bringing 270kW 3.0-litre turbo V6 energy and Quattro all-wheel force.

• Audi Australia is yet to substantiate whether the A5 will commence with the option of an Avant wagon body trend though, on the time of writing, the A5 Avant seems as an upcoming model variant on its public website.

• It’s pretty probably that, as a minimal in the beginning, primarily the most easy wagon option will seemingly be for patrons to stump up for the confirmed if yet-to-be-priced S5 Avant, which is in a situation to additionally be accessible as a Sportback liftback.

Maserati GranTurismo Modena reviewed

• Chasing Vehicles deputy editor Curt Dupriez’s avenue test of the 2025 Maserati GranTurismo Modena was as soon as printed, including his praise for intoxicating styling but disappointment in a couple of of the execution.

• Dupriez came upon the presence and stance of the 2-door coupe befitting the Italian immense touring transient.

• On the other hand, the Maser succumbed to valuable criticism in plenty of areas, from the lacklustre (and thirsty) powertrain to the wretched and poorly packaged inside of.

• In transient, the entry unusual the GranTurismo stable proved underbaked and homogenised within the areas the build it desires to shine primarily the most and is, at $375K, simply too dear for what amounts to easiest a exiguous take web of virtues.

READ: https://www.chasingcars.com.au/critiques/sports-vehicles/maserati-granturismo-modena-2025-overview/

The subsequent difficulty of Automobile Knowledge At the present time will seemingly be printed on Thursday nineteenth March at 4.30pm Sydney time.