Car news today: new-gen Tucson and i30 sedan for 2026 according to reports, Chery unveils KP11 ute concept, and more – 22 Oct 2024

Thanks for becoming a member of us this Tuesday 22 October 2024. Particularly in automobile news as of late: the Hyundai Tucson and i30 sedan will reportedly continue to exist for stamp new petrol-powered generations from 2026, and Chery finds KP11 ute belief.

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• Next-gen Hyundai Tucson and i30 sedan to launch in 2026: portray
• One other new ute for Australia? Chery unveils belief; appears production ready!
• Aussies being slugged billions on facet toll road tolls every yr
• Fresh automobiles in Australia are drinking as much as 30 percent extra gasoline than claimed
• Reviewed: 2024 LDV T60 Max Plus

Next-gen Hyundai Tucson and i30 sedan to launch in 2026: portray

• Two key Hyundai units, the Tucson midsize SUV and i30 tiny sedan, will continue to exist in petrol-powered form for as a minimal one other new technology to launch in 2026, per in a foreign nation experiences.

• Korean publication ET News experiences that Hyundai has begun constructing of subsequent-technology units of every automobiles which is ready to feature every petrol and hybrid powertrains – moreover to scoot-in hybrid within the case of the Tucson – and launch within the first half of of 2026.

• The portray states that the Korean manufacturer is adjusting its tempo of transition to utterly electric automobiles because of stagnating ask and softening environmental laws, making an allowance for ICE automobiles to soldier on longer than at the delivery planned, potentially up till 2033 for the next-technology automobiles if a 2026 launch eventuates as anticipated.

• Hyundai’s present-technology Tucson and i30 sedan arrived in Australia in 2021, with mid-lifestyles facelifts taking put for the 2 automobiles this yr.

One other new ute for Australia? Chery unveils belief; appears production ready!

• The correct-launched BYD Shark 6 and anticipated Kia Tasman and Ford Ranger scoot-in-hybrid will be dominating headlines, however it appears as if those utes will soon glean additional competition from Chinese automaker Chery with the KP11.

• In one other nation car publication AutoIndustria has printed photography and major parts of the belief ute, which appears production ready.

• The portray states that there’ll be every an ‘city’ and ‘off-facet toll road’ form, the latter of which is pictured, with three powertrains to be made accessible including a 2.4-litre turbo-petrol, a scoot-in hybrid electric, and a vary-extended electric automobile.

• While no extra ingredient has been made accessible, the portray says that Chery will launch a production mannequin in 2025.

• Chery Australia has beforehand signalled its appetite for a ute to be a part of its increasing vary, with old experiences certainly speculating a most likely 2025 launch.

Aussies being slugged billions on facet toll road tolls every yr

• An investigation by the ABC’s Four Corners has found that Australian drivers are paying bigger than ever on toll roads, with those dwelling in outer suburbs feeling the pinch the most.

• The portray analysed average toll prices alongside key Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane routes; in actually appropriate some of the worst conditions it found that residents of Wollondilly in Sydney’s south would possibly maybe presumably perchance well furthermore inquire of of to pay about 17 percent of their average earnings on their day-to-day pressure to town.

• Importantly, the investigation furthermore notorious that the fee of tolls escape by non-public firm Transurban – which operates most of Australia’s toll roads, and which earned $3.2 billion from tolls within the last financial yr – are guaranteed to expand given they’re linked with the person tag index.

• The ABC projected that an $11.78 toll from Parramatta to Mascot would expand to $25.82 by 2045.

• Allan Fels, a former chairman of the Australian Competitors and Particular person Commission who produced an fair review on the problem for the NSW executive earlier this yr, has called for toll facet toll road prices to be space by a executive company and advised the ABC: “we must set motorists first in making coverage, no longer the operators and house owners”.

Fresh automobiles in Australia are drinking as much as 30 percent extra gasoline than claimed

• The Australian Automotive Association has printed new files from its actual-world gasoline-attempting out program, showing notable disparities between lab-test basically based completely mostly manufacturer efficiency claims and actual-world attempting out results for automobiles from some of Australia’s perfect manufacturers.

• 12 automobiles had been examined as allotment of the most up-to-date round of attempting out and handiest one, the old-technology MG HS, turned into once found to say much less gasoline than claimed.

• The perfect disparities had been recorded by the GWM Haval Jolion Hybrid, which recorded 6.6L/100km basically based completely mostly on AAA attempting out in opposition to a 5.0L/100km direct, and the Chery Omoda 5 (9.1L vs 6.9L) – every 32 percent above their claims.

• The Audi A3, Kia Seltos, Honda CR-V, Honda CR-V Hybrid and Mazda CX-5 furthermore recorded double-digit percentage disparities of between 12 and 21 percent.

• Funded by the federal executive and escape since October last yr, the program has released results for 70 automobiles on sale in Australia, with 52 of them found to say extra gasoline than claimed by manufacturers and 17 emitting extra sinful emissions than licensed by laboratory limits.

LDV T60 Max Plus 2024 reviewed

• Chasing Autos contributor Nathan Ponchard’s review of the 2024 LDV T60 Max Plus turned into once printed, taking a shut seek on the newly facelifted ute.

• The T60 Max Plus is the new flagship for the LDV ute vary, accessible in additional-prolonged variant or as in frequent-length guise as examined here in computerized form.

• Priced at around $50K driveaway, the T60 Max Plus auto genuinely is the most most attention-grabbing nemesis to the likes of the excessive-spec Ford Ranger Wildtrak and Toyota Hilux SR5, at a extra wallet-friendly tag level.

• In his review, Ponchard takes a deep dive into what’s new for the T60 in its fourth lifecycle change, what you glean within the Max Plus equipment on test, and whether or no longer the maturing mannequin has maintained appeal and relevance in Australia’s hotly contested ute segment.

The next difficulty of Automotive News As we bellow will be printed on Wednesday 23 October 2024 at 4.30pm Sydney time.