Car news today: Mitsubishi reveals price and specs for revised ICE Outlander, Nissan Y63 Patrol to use Australian-made parts, and more – 20 May 2025

Thanks for becoming a member of us this Tuesday, Might perchance well perchance merely Twentieth 2025. Severely in automobile files this day: pricing revealed for updated Mitsubishi Outlander, and the Y63 Nissan Patrol is decided to be constructed with Australian parts.

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• Mitsubishi mark and specs for mid-existence updated Outlander
• Nissan’s new Y63 Patrol constructed in piece by Aussies
• Land Rover Discovery beneficial properties two heritage impressed variants
• Lexus pulls UX300e electrical crossover from Oz.market

• Reviewed: 2025 Haval Raptor PHEV

Mitsubishi mark and specs for mid-existence updated Outlander

• Mitsubishi’s ever-neatly-liked Outlander mid-size SUV has got a entire Australian facelift alongside revised pricing to compete with done Toyota RAV4 and Hyundai Tucson rivals.

• Mitsubishi has confirmed the revised Outlander will start in June 2025. Key updates consist of a new Yamaha stereo system and an Australian-developed guidance and suspension tune.

• The rotten mannequin Mitsubishi Outlander ES 2WD will now start at $39,990, in the starting place priced at $37,740 (RRP). The differ topping Outlander Exceed Tourer also receives a mark hike, now $57,990 RRP (became $55,190).

• Pricing has increased all the way in which through the Outlander differ, with rises between $2050 and $2950 (RRP) utilized searching on variant. Chasing Cars anticipates pricing and mannequin updates to the Outlander PHEV to be revealed imminently.

Nissan’s new Y63 Patrol constructed in piece by Aussies

• Every production mannequin of Nissan’s subsequent expertise Y63 Patrol will now proudly feature an Australian made rear differential housing constructed in the neighborhood in Dandenong South, Victoria.

• The Nissan Casting Australia Plant will now discover the rear diff housing for all future Y63 fashions, with 200 workers also working to discover a claimed 1.2 million examples of 25 different trusty Nissan parts.

• The Nissan Australia Casting Plant is also liable for the production of an estimated 16,000 Nissan tow bars for Australian and Recent Zealand markets. The tow bars include formally handed ‘Australian Made’ accreditation, allowing them to sport the enduring tag of a yellow kangaroo on a green background.

• Nissan’s Y63 Patrol, which became in the starting place unveiled in September 2024, isn’t anticipated to reach attend on sale in the Oz.market unless 2026. It is currently on sale in the United States, Canada, Egypt, Cambodia, Africa, and the Center East.

READ: 2025 Nissan Patrol Y63 unveiled: greater, V6-powered four wheel power coming to Australia

Land Rover Discovery beneficial properties two heritage impressed variants

• Land Rover has launched a new luxury-centered Tempest clear and ‘family roam’ impressed Gemini clear for the 2025 Land Rover Discovery. The Discovery differ will also receive a bunch of youth updates.

• The Land Rover Discovery Tempest headlines as a new flagship for the mannequin, that encompasses a Petra Copper Gloss roof, 22‑journey alloy wheels, and varied weird visible enhancements. It is priced at $146,048 (RRP).

• In the period in-between, Land Rover claims the $134,763 (RRP) Discovery Gemini is aimed in direction of ‘family adventures’ and impressed by the major expertise Discovery from 1989. It functions a chilled center console, rear seat cell phone/tablet holders, and three-zone native weather sustain a watch on.

• All variations of the 2025 Discovery will additionally execute the probability of 5-spoke 22-journey ‘Vogue 5124’ wheels at the side of the Gemini and Tempest start. The Discovery SE beneficial properties the probability of spoil up-5-spoke 21-journey Vogue 5123 wheels in a gloss murky construct.

Lexus pulls UX300e electrical crossover from Oz.market

• A Lexus spokesperson has revealed its most price-effective electrical automobile, the UX300e, will now not be on hand in Australia attributable to “production restrictions on chosen parts”. The commentary became launched following speculation as to why Lexus had pulled the UX300e from its web residence.

• News of the Lexus UX300e has reach moderately impulsively, with the mannequin receiving main mid-existence updates lower than two years ago, which integrated a greater 72.8kWh battery, improved 450km differ (WLTP), and 12.3-journey infotainment mask.

• With the UX300e pulled from the showroom ground, Lexus now gives most effective one dedicated electrical automobile, the RZ450e. Whereas the RZ became discontinued in December 2024, a 2025 facelift is predicted to reach attend to Australia imminently.

• Lexus first launched the UX300e in 2019. It became on hand in the Australian market from 2021, and in the starting place featured a 54.4kWh battery, 150kW/300Nm entrance mounted electrical motor, and a starting mark of $80,720 sooner than on-road charges.

2025 Haval Raptor PHEV reviewed

• Chasing Cars senior contributor Iain Curry’s world first power of the 2025 Haval Raptor PHEV became published, at the side of speculation on the Raptor’s off-road capability, and the place the Raptor PHEV would slot into GWM’s present Australian differ.

• Curry became impressed by the off-road centered garnishings of the Raptor, at the side of its 221mm lag top, locking rear differential and claimed combined differ of over 1000km.

• But he wondered whether or now not the Raptor’s monocoque chassis may perchance seemingly match its off-road centric boxy styling. There’s also a trusty search files from as to whether or now not the Raptor may perchance seemingly also merely position in GWM’s already crowded Australian mannequin differ.

• The Haval Raptor PHEV has serious possible to shake up the Australian market if it reaches our shores. Its present mark in Chinese language Yuan translates to roughly AUD$40,000, which can perchance well seemingly nick the grass of key Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV and BYD Sealion 6 rivals.

READ: Haval Raptor PHEV 2025 evaluation: world first power

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