Car news today: MG preparing new model onslaught, Volvo backpedals on its all-electric 2030 claim, and more – 5 Sept 2024

Thanks for becoming a member of us this Thursday September fifth 2024. Notably in vehicle news nowadays: MG readying a slew of most well-liked items by to the discontinue of 2025, Volvo cancels its approach to creep all-electrical by 2030, and more.

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• MG contemporary model onslaught locked for the following 16 months
• Volvo walks relief on its 2030 all-electrical plans
• Patrol/Armada Pro-4X breaks duvet within the US
• Tesla Model Y would possibly possibly also spawn a contemporary six-seat model

• Reviewed: 2024 Ford Transit Custom Constructing

MG to commence eight contemporary and revised items by the discontinue of 2025

• MG Australia is preparing an avalanche of most well-liked and revised items by to the discontinue of 2025 it told Chasing Vehicles at basically the most well-liked commence of the contemporary-gen HS SUV.
• By year’s discontinue, both the six-resolve Cyberster sportscar and the ZS cramped SUV will can be found in MG showrooms.

• Nevertheless in 2025, MG Australia guarantees many surprises, including the confirmation of a seven-seat elephantine SUV (possibly twinned off the SAIC Motor’s Roewe RX9) and a midsize sedan that’s nearly completely the MG 7. As many as eight contemporary items would possibly possibly also come next year.

• Already confirmed for showrooms are hybrid versions of the factual launched HS midsize SUV by the open up of Q3 2025, with the ability portfolio count as excessive as 13 sure items domestically by the discontinue of that year.

Volvo backpedals on its all-electrical 2030 target, lobs up thus far XC90

• Volvo is but one other manufacturer stepping far from bullish all-electrical targets as global purchaser quiz for EVs continues to soften against predicted forecasting.
• The carmaker acknowledged in March 2021 that its lineup would possibly possibly be fully electrical by 2030, but it presented overnight that this is able to possibly also now proceed to supply petrol-electrical hybrids past its self-imposed time restrict.

• On the same announcement Volvo unveiled but one other change of its decade-outmoded XC90 elephantine SUV intended to be supplanted by the contemporary EX90 electrical. The revised XC90 will now be supplied alongside the EX90 as a petroleum-electrical hybrid quite plenty of.
• For its portion, Volvo Australia acknowledged in 2022 that it would possibly possibly possibly almost at the moment-computer screen the mothership’s EV ambitions by going all-electrical by 2026. It’s miles but risky whether the native arm would possibly also now readjust its EV approach or, certainly, whether the newly up thus far hybrid XC90 will be supplied in Australia at all.

Y63 Patrol/Armada spawns an off-dual carriageway Pro-4X variant within the US

• The paint has barely dried on the Y63 Patrol 4×4 SUV unveiled globally this week, and Nissan’s US arm has pulled the covers off a Pro-4X off-dual carriageway model of the Patrol’s American twin, the Armada.

• The Pro-4X medication brings enhanced exterior styling, a greater static recede peak from the well-liked-fit air suspension, and a host of off-roading addenda equivalent to expanded pressure modes, a outdated locking rear diff and varied 4×4 tweaks.

• Inner, the Pro-4X brings a strange seat make and shipshape, a bespoke color and cloth theme, and expanded 360-digital camera performance with a ‘stare-by-bonnet’ ability.
• With Y63 Patrol unable to be even ordered till 2026 in Australia, it’s too early to predict if the Pro-4X medication would possibly possibly also materise domestically with the 4×4 SUV, though this package has loved some reputation as applied to Nissan’s Navara ute range in most well-liked cases.

Tesla Model Y six-seater on the cards for China, possibly Australia

• A six-seat model of Tesla’s Model Y midsize SUV would possibly possibly also very effectively be supplied within the no longer-too-distant-future, in accordance to a document from Reuters.
• It’s suggested that the contemporary variation, potentially in a new ‘2+2+2’ three-row configuration, would possibly possibly also open up manufacturing in China as early as late 2025, arriving within the wheel tracks of the imminent ‘Juniper’ change due early next year.

• Tesla already provides a seven-seat model of the well-liked electrical SUV within the US that’s inbuilt its native country. Offered that Australian Tesla Model Ys are sourced from China, there’s some probability that the six-seater would possibly possibly also accumulate its diagram Down Under.
• It stays to be considered whether the contemporary three-row Tesla adopts a more commodious body vogue and more generous packaging, or withhold the US configuration even handed as by many pundits to be extraordinarily compromised in functional room and practicality.

2024 Ford Transit Custom Constructing reviewed

• Chasing Vehicles digital manufacturing specialist Tom Attach of living Surname’s 1000km-plus review of the 2024 Ford Transit Custom Constructing became as soon as printed, including his deep dive on what it’s adore as a home-transferring ally.

• Attach of living complimented the Transit Custom all-round competency, polished chassis, workhorse practicality within the cabin and lengthy-haul manners.

• On the downsides, Attach of living considers the 2.0L diesel to be merely ample against more unheard of opponents, while cargo home also isn’t precisely class leading. And the native spec misses out on some key improvements that would also map later.
• In abstract, the Transit Custom proves to be a safer, smarter and more uncomplicated-to-pressure Ford van, though electro-savvy tradies would possibly possibly also are seeking to chill their jets and await the imminent all-electrical E-Transit attributable to be added to the lineup within the arrival month.

READ: Link to written review

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