Car news today: Toyota RAV4 tops monthly sales charts again, Kia designers discuss Tasman design, and more – 06 November 2024

Thanks for becoming a member of us this Wednesday 6 November 2024. Severely in car news on the present time: the Toyota RAV4 once extra tops Aussie sales charts nevertheless the market is down total, and Chasing Vehicles sits down with Kia’s designers to chat about the Tasman ute.

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• RAV4 tops October sales charts nevertheless market down total
• Kia designers enlighten with Chasing Vehicles about Tasman make
• Genesis GV70: price and specs confirmed for facelifted SUV
• Toyota Celica and MR2 poised to assassinate a comeback?
• Reviewed: 2024 Mitsubishi Outlander GSR

RAV4 tops October sales charts nevertheless market down total

• The Toyota RAV4 turn into Australia’s most in vogue automobile for the fourth month in a row this October, with 4841 fresh examples rolling into buyer driveaways, earlier than the Ford Ranger (4757) and Toyota Hilux (4523) utes.

• A total of 98,375 fresh vehicles were delivered in October, taking the whole sales tally to over a million for the year-to-date.

• Nonetheless, indicators of a slowing market are evident – the month pleasing gone turn into down 7.9 per cent on the the same month final year, with the Federal Chamber of Automobile Industries also noting that the interior most traders section turn into down 14.2 per cent in October, on top of a reduction of 17.2 per cent in September.

• Of the slowing market, Tony Weber, CEO of the FCAI mentioned: “this does screen that financial pressures are a misfortune for households across the nation”.

• Toyota turn into once extra Australia’s most in vogue phrase in October with 18,471 fresh vehicles delivered, earlier than Ford (8581), Mazda (7656), Hyundai (7086), and Kia (6602).

Kia designers enlighten with Chasing Vehicles about Tasman make

• The Kia Tasman’s make has been a focal level of dialogue since the ute turn into unveiled final week – Chasing Vehicles sat down with senior Kia executives and two of its lead designers to uncover extra about the strategy within the abet of it.

• John Buckingham, Head of Kia Subsequent Assemble Exterior globally, suggested Chasing Vehicles that breaking into an entrenched and successfully-established ute market couldn’t be accomplished “with a cookie cutter manner”.

• “It needed to be something fresh,” Buckingham mentioned, adding that a “hanging” preliminary affect “turn into the scheme”.

• Roland Rivero, Kia Australia’s classic supervisor for product planning mentioned: “we could presumably presumably also be pleased with out drawl taken that manner of: let’s pleasing be care for all people else. Nonetheless[opponentsequivalentto[rivalssuchasHilux be pleased]40 or 50 years of heritage and history on this category, so we wished to discontinuance something somewhat bit assorted and be somewhat bit extra dauntless in our manner”.

READ MORE: Kia Tasman: the within anecdote within the abet of its polarising make

Genesis GV70: price and specs confirmed for facelifted SUV

• Genesis has confirmed pricing for its freshly facelifted GV70 midsize SUV which debuts an updated three-grade lineup in Australia that contains two powertrains alternate options.

• The vary opens at $78,500 earlier than on-highway costs for the entry-grade Evolved which is accessible with a 2.5-litre turbo-charged four-cylinder engine.

• A mid-spec Signature grade can even be had with the the same four-cylinder powertrain for $87,500 or a bigger 3.5-litre turbo V6 for $98,000.

• In the stop, the tip-spec Signature Sport can even be had with the four-cylinder ($89,500) or the V6 ($100,000); all costs earlier than on-highway costs.

• The updated SUV brings with it tweaked styling, fresh wheel designs, upgraded security and driver assistance tech, fresh aspects care for a 27-dart OLED screen, as successfully as some refinements below the skin to the chassis and suspension amongst assorted adjustments.

Toyota Celica and MR2 poised to assassinate a comeback?

• Toyota has fuelled hypothesis of a doable return of just a few of its most iconic sports car nameplates, namely the MR2 and Celica.

• An anime series created by Toyota known as ‘GRIP’ and published to its YouTube accounts aspects a essentially refined blink-and-you’ll-miss-it reference to a ‘Celica Mk 8’, ‘MR2 Mk 4’, ‘GR86 Mk 3’, ‘Supra Mk 6’ and ‘GR GT3’ within the background physique of a most up-to-date episode.

• The GR GT3 references a high-performance view published by Toyota in 2022, nevertheless all assorted references are to doable subsequent-expertise items, with the GR86 and Supra currently of their 2nd and fifth generations, and the MR2 and Celica final having ended manufacturing with their third and seventh generations within the early 2000s.

• On the weekend Toyota also posted several photography of iconic older items at the side of the MR2 and Celica to its Instagram memoir with the caption “what rides would you to determine on to eye us bring abet?”

• Whereas no reborn items had been formally confirmed, rumours be pleased swirled in most up-to-date occasions, intensified by several view designs at the side of a ‘FT-Se’ sports car view that debuted on the Japan Mobility Expose final year, which turn into widely understood to preview a doable fresh-expertise MR2.

Mitsubishi Outlander GSR PHEV 2024 reviewed

• Chasing Vehicles journalist Olek Novak’s analysis of the 2024 Mitsubishi Outlander GSR PHEV turn into published, what’s doubtlessly the most costly Mitsubishi you have to presumably presumably also aquire appropriate now in Australia.

• Because the 2nd-most in vogue contented within the crimson-sizzling midsize SUV section, the fresh GSR variant lays on the whole fruit nevertheless comes with a hefty price phrase that nudges $80K driveaway.

• With seven seats, shuffle-in hybrid electrical strength and all-wheel pressure, the Outlander items a compelling proposition in a highly aggressive market, nevertheless is it price the dough in top-spec form?
• In this detailed analysis Novak outlines the factual, the mistaken, and exams out Mitsubishi’s 84km all-electrical vary claim.

The next discipline of Automobile News Right now time will be published on Thursday 7 November 2024 at 4.30pm Sydney time.