Car news today: BMW reveals new-gen X3 midsize SUV, Hyundai Australia confirms price and spec for new Tucson, and more – 19 June 2024

Thanks for becoming a member of us this Wednesday June nineteenth 2024. Notably in automobile news this day: BMW has revealed its contemporary, fourth-skills X3 SUV, and Hyundai Australia has announced pricing and specification for its Tucson SUV which now has hybrid energy.

Browse this predicament:

• BMW finds fourth-skills X3 midsize SUV
• 2025 Hyundai Tucson priced for Australia
• Volvo brings support estate vehicles to the UK in surprise traipse
• EV maker Fisker files for financial extinguish
• Reviewed: 2024 Ford Transit Personalized

BMW finds fourth-skills X3 midsize SUV

• BMW’s contemporary-skills X3 midsize SUV, the ‘G45’, has been unveiled globally, revealing a brand contemporary uncover exterior and interior manufacture for the automobile which is decided to debut in Australian showrooms within the first quarter of 2025.

• The contemporary X3 will open within the community with two variants, the 20 xDrive and the M50 xDrive, which methodology the xDrive 30d and xDrive 30e hasten-in hybrid will no longer be supplied in Australia, for now.

• Pricing records is anticipated to apply within the arrival months, with BMW detailing specs for the 2-grade lineup that will presumably maybe moreover encompass sides like 19-roam alloy wheels, adaptive suspension and BMW’s most up-to-date iDrive Running Diagram 9 as customary, with the tip spec M50 xDrive scoring sides like 21-roam alloy wheels and an M Sport package.

• Every variants shall be powered by BMW’s xDrive all-wheel pressure system and feature soft-hybridisation, with the 20 xDrive featuring a 2.0-litre four cylinder turbocharged petrol engine and 13kW electric motor (153kW/330Nm total outputs), and the M50 xDrive a 3.0-litre turbocharged straight-six, moreover mated to the connected forty eight-volt soft hybrid system and electric motor (293kW/580Nm).

READ: Read our extended coverage of the contemporary X3

WATCH: Survey our stout walkaround evaluation of the contemporary X3

Hyundai Australia proclaims pricing and specs for its 2025 Tucson SUV

• Hyundai has announced pricing and sides for its 2025 Tucson midsize SUV, with stamp-of-entry now starting up $3450 more than before. The entry-level Tucson now costs $39,100 before on-road costs.

• Pricing tops out at $59,600 before on-road costs for the flagship Hybrid. Hyundai has removed the pre-present Highlander nameplate and replaced it with Tucson, Tucson Elite and Tucson Premium variants.

• Speaking of hybrids, the Tucson has gained a 1.6-litre petrol four-cylinder with the addition of an electric motor for the first time. It’s very connected to the engine found within the connected Kia Sportage.

• Two further powertrains shall be supplied, along side a 2.0-litre four-cylinder petrol and a 1.6-litre turbocharged four-cylinder. You need to presumably maybe presumably no longer have a turbo-diesel Tucson in Australia.

• Fashioned instruments for the 2025 Tucson involves a 12.3-roam touchscreen, 4.0-roam instrument cluster, wi-fi cell phone charging, 18-roam alloy wheels, LED headlights and tail lights, dual-zone climate take care of watch over and a leather-basically based mostly-appointed guidance wheel.

• The contemporary Tucson SUV is now readily accessible to advise from Hyundai dealerships one day of the nation

Volvo brings support wagons to the UK because of resurgence of the physique model

• In a shock traipse, Volvo is bringing the estate automobile support to the UK, in step with contemporary experiences from Autocar.

• Every the V60 and the V90 wagons are role to traipse support on sale with soft-hybrid and hasten-in hybrid solutions. Volvo reportedly took its estate wagons off the market faraway places to focal point instead on SUVs.

• In an fairly uncommon shift, wagons are reportedly having a resurgence within the UK and Europe.

• As for Australia, the Volvo V60 Contemptible Country wagon is silent readily accessible in Australia, but with Volvo Australia now exclusively dedicated to an all-electric future by 2026, it stays to be considered if a in all probability exclusively electric successor makes its means to Australia the build wagons are less well-liked.

• A elevated, exclusively electric S90 sedan, called the ES90, is anticipated to be announced subsequent one year, with an electric ES60 moreover very more likely to be allotment of Volvo’s future plans. Every shall be readily accessible in wagon form, but right here’s but to be officially confirmed.

EV producer Fisker files for US financial extinguish

• Fisker, the automobile producer of the Ocean SUV and the ragged Fisker Karma hasten-in hybrid, has filed for financial extinguish within the US.

• The EV maker and startup reported a fourth quarter loss of $463 million after considerations arose with distribution and automobile quality. Fisker registered beautiful 2561 items of its Ocean SUV between January and April 2024.

• The Fisker Ocean SUV became built by contract producer Magna Steyr who came to prominence thanks to its pattern of the Mercedes-Benz 4Matic all-wheel pressure system.

• The Ocean is a 5-door SUV with either entrance- or all-wheel pressure electric energy. It has been supplied within the US, Europe and Canada, but didn’t attain Australian shores.

• It’s the 2d time founder Henrik Fisker has faced monetary troubles, as his normal Fisker Automobile company filed for financial extinguish in November 2013.

Ford Transit Personalized reviewed

• Chasing Cars’ digital manufacturing specialist Thomas Region’s evaluation of the 2024 Ford Transit Personalized became revealed, along side his thoughts and emotions on the contemporary-skills van from the Blue Oval.
• Region found the Transit Personalized’s self sustaining rear suspension, wider facet-loading door and adjustable tray-table-model guidance wheel as a pair of of the principle positives of this contemporary-skills van.
• Nonetheless, Region moreover found the dearth of a spare wheel and comparatively quick using differ for the electric version as some areas for Ford to pork up on in some unspecified time in the future.
• In summary, Region concluded that the Transit Personalized, a minimal of in electric form, is unlikely to be an economical have, but found it became a aloof and fleet means to come by round in.

• Region said that via cargo build and practicality, there were hardly ever any differences between an electric and combustion Transit Personalized, despite the van carrying a immense battery onboard.

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