Car news today: Near-production BYD ute shown without any camouflage, Nissan Qashqai gets a brand-new look, and more – 17 April 2024

Thanks for joining us this Wednesday April 17th 2024. Severely in automobile files this day: the highly-anticipated BYD ute has been spotted with no veil, giving us a lots better check out at its styling, and the Nissan Qashqai puny SUV has been up to this point with a brand recent check out and extra tech.

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• BYD ute considered publicly undisguised for the indispensable time
• Nissan unearths facelifted Qashqai puny SUV
• Subaru announces recent Crosstrek particular version called 2.0X
• GMC Yukon gets ready for Australian open
• Reviewed: 2024 Honda Civic Form R vs Volkswagen Golf R

BYD’s ute spotted undisguised without veil

• First, BYD teased professional camouflaged photographs of its upcoming ute, and now we’ve considered it uncovered by some means.

• Due to a recent Instagram reel posted by automobile channel AutoDinamico, we are able to thought the entrance and rear with powerful elevated component.

• The entrance LED light strip appears very powerful impressed by the Ford F-150 Lightning, whereas at the rear, we are able to thought the invent of the sports bar, a feature considered on many present twin-cab utes.

• All americans is conscious of that the BYD ute will be a hybrid within the foundation, the usage of the brand’s DM-I technology. A fully electric version is additionally confirmed, nonetheless received’t be released within the neighborhood except around 2026.

• Request the BYD to be formally printed to the final public within the arriving weeks or months, before it goes on sale in different world markets, at the side of Australia, this year. The ute model is seemingly to be called the BYD Shark.

Nissan Qashqai gets recent check out, extra tech in 2024 facelift

• Nissan has formally printed its facelifted Qashqai puny SUV and it’s better than luminous a tech update.

• With a restyled entrance cease with recent grille and LED light invent, the up to this point Qashqai will open in Australia in the direction of the cease of 2024, in response to Nissan’s native arm.

• Furthermore recent is the addition of Google infotainment, a extra detailed 3D 360-stage digicam, recent alloy wheel designs and three recent colours for merchants to determine from.

• What stays the same is the selection of both a turbocharged four-cylinder engine, or a E-Vitality hybrid setup featuring an electric motor and turbocharged three-cylinder petrol engine.

• High spec Qashqais will invent leather-essentially essentially based totally and Alcantara interiors, a 12.3-prance touchscreen and a 7.0-prance digital instrument cluster. The Qashqai competes in a busy puny SUV segment with the likes of the Toyota Corolla Execrable, Hyundai Kona and the Subaru Crosstrek.

Subaru announces particular version Crosstrek called 2.0X

• Subaru Australia has introduced this might per chance introduce a restricted-version version of its Crosstrek puny SUV called the 2.0X.

• Based mostly totally on the entry-stage 2.0L tier, Subaru has added several functions to the restricted 2.0X variant, corresponding to twin-feature X-Mode, better 18-prance gloss alloy wheels, heated entrance seats, top fee cloth orderly, a leather-essentially essentially based totally steering wheel and instruments shifter and dim grey roof rails.

• Priced at $36,990 before on-road costs, or $2000 better than the monstrous 2.0L, Subaru says the recent 2.0X might per chance maintain restricted quantity and urges these to get in contact with their native Subaru dealership for availability.

• The two.0X joins the remainder of the Crosstrek vary which additionally involves two at ease hybrids, the Hybrid L and Hybrid S.

GMC Yukon SUV hits the road in Australia

• GMSV, the present Australia distributor for Overall Motors, has introduced that its upcoming GMC Yukon model is readying itself for a future native open and is at the 2d venture intensive on-road and off-road pattern and making an strive out.

• The GMC Yukon is an eight-seat SUV that will be re-engineered in Australia for our suitable-hand-power market.

• In Australia, GMSV will supply the GMC Yukon in excessive-spec Denali guise and is seemingly to be powered by a 6.2-litre naturally-aspirated V8 engine with 313kW/623Nm.

• On the other hand, the Yukon is additionally available within the US market with a 3.0-litre turbo-diesel straight-six engine producing 206kW/623Nm.

• The model is anticipated to formally open down under within the first half of 2025. GMC is identified in its house market because the extra top fee offering above Chevrolet and is section of the broader Overall Motors family.

Honda Civic Form R vs Volkswagen Golf R reviewed

• Chasing Cars deputy editor Curt Dupriez’ comparison of the 2024 Honda Civic Form R and Volkswagen Golf R used to be printed, at the side of his ideas on which of the duo used to be the hotter choice, and additionally which used to be the most liveable.
• Dupriez found that every and every the sizzling Civic and Golf had been each and every vastly savory and nice when having a sizzling bound, and but had been so assorted from one but any other at the side of how you power them.
• By downsides, Chasing Cars’ 2IC idea the Civic Form R might per chance per chance attain with less tyre noise, whereas the Volkswagen Golf R lacked some theatrics and persona.
• Dupriez concluded the video by asserting the Civic Form R used to be the hotter of the two, whereas the Golf R used to be the final nicer choice.

The next field of Vehicle News Right this moment will be printed on Thursday 18th April at 4.30pm Sydney time.