Car news today: Toyota rumoured to launch new MX-5 rival, electric Kia Tasman to offer 400km+ of range, and more – 09 May 2024

Thanks for joining us this Thursday, Can also goal Ninth 2024. Notably in automobile news this present day: Toyota is rumoured to be working on a brand new RWD coupe to rival the MX-5 and the driving vary of the Kia Tasman EV has been revealed.

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• Toyota rumoured to delivery new MX-5 rival in 2026
• Kia Tasman EV to provide over 400km of vary
• Land Rover Defender up to this level with 700Nm diesel
• GWM Tank 700 PHEV 2024 reviewed

Toyota rumoured to delivery MX-5 rival in 2026

• Toyota is rumoured to be working on a rear-wheel-power coupe fixed with the 2015 S-FR theory that will maybe take a seat below the GR86 in size and rate, and be conclude in size to the Mazda MX-5
• Consistent with Japanese outlet Easiest Car Web, the coupe will most doubtless be powered by a 111kW turbocharged three-cylinder engine and will delivery in behind 2026 or early 2027

• It’s believed Toyota is working on Suzuki and its gather sister note Daihatsu to originate the mission viable, such as its old Subaru partnership on the BRZ/GR86.

• Curiously, Daihatsu nowadays unveiled the ‘Imaginative and prescient Copen’ theory which has grown within the encourage of the scale of its Kei-automobile origins and adopted a RWD structure, with a 1.3-litre turbocharged three-cylinder engine below the bonnet.

Kia Tasman EV to provide over 400km of vary

• Kia is presupposed to be working on an fully electric version of the Tasman ute which will come with a battery size of around 100kWh and provide now not less than 400km of vary
• The Tasman will first delivery in combustion originate, with a 2.2-litre turbo-diesel four-cylinder confirmed as the important drivetrain in Australia

• Kia already provides a similarly sized, Ninety 9.8 kWh (tainted) battery pack within the EV9 massive SUV with a unfold of 505km based on WLTP, nonetheless industrial capabilities akin to utes regularly survey more restricted vary
• Kia has beforehand acknowledged the incoming Contemporary Vehicle Emission Requirements (NVES) in Australia would likely consequence in a elevated amount of hybrid, bound-in hybrid and EV alternatives in our market

Land Rover Defender up to this level with 700Nm diesel ’six

• Land Rover has up to this level the Defender lineup for 2024 with the headline upgrade being a boost in verbalize to the straight straight-size diesel engine
• Replacing the D300, the D350 produces 258kW/700Nm or 37kW/50Nm more than sooner than. A de-tuned D250 diesel is nonetheless on hand, as is the P400 straight-six petrol, P400e PHEV and the P525/P500 petrol V8.

• Land Rover says the interior is now more sturdy and opulent, with a brand new Captain Chairs Pack and the placing new 110 Sedona Edition joining the vary
• Prices open from $92,402 and top out at $217,282 sooner than on-roads, with first deliveries jam to strategy in September 2024

GWM Tank 700 PHEV 2024 reviewed

• Chasing Autos contributor Iain Curry’s worldwide first power of the 2024 GWM Tank 700 used to be revealed, a vehicle which will come to Australia.
• The Tank 700 demonstrated excellent off-avenue capability with an astounding 970mm wading depth and a highly luxurious interior

• Curry did present there used to be an overdependence on touchscreens and it could maybe maybe likely be very pricey for a GWM in Australia, with a label of now not less than $100,000.
• Same in size to a Toyota Land Cruiser 300 Series or Nissan Patrol, the Tank 700 also can provide a proper rival to negate PHEV know-how to the segment

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