KGM Torres goes hybrid: Korean rival to Toyota RAV4 and Subaru Forester launches with $45,000 starting price

KGM Australia (formerly SsanYong) has this day launched a plugless hybrid drivetrain for its Torres midsize SUV. The new variant marks KGM’s first production hybrid vehicle, which claims a combined gasoline economy of 5.6L/100km and starts from $45,000 power-away.

The unsuitable mannequin Torres Hybrid K30 commands a $9000 top rate over the combustion-handiest Torres ELX, while the hybrid vary topping ($forty eight,000) K40 costs $5000 more than its petrol-handiest Final counterpart.

Powerful devour key competitors Toyota RAV4 GX and Subaru Forester Hybrid, the Torres Hybrid makes exercise of a plugless series parallel hybrid gadget. Those autos, which dominate the midsize SUV segment, initiate from $45,990 and $46,490 respectively, sooner than on-highway costs.

But where the Toyota RAV4 and Subaru Forester offer hybridisation and all-wheel power, both grades of Torres Hybrid are tiny to entrance-wheel power. All-wheel power stays unfamiliar to the petrol-handiest Torres Final.

The Torres Hybrid gadget combines a 110kW/220Nm 1.5-litre turbo petrol engine and devoted hybrid transmission with a 1.8kWh high voltage battery and twin electrical motors to kind a combined gadget output of 150kW.

The hybrid gadget claims a combined gasoline economy of 5.6L/100km, where the non-hybrid entrance-driven Torres claims 7.4L/100km.

Long-established equipment on the unsuitable Torres Hybrid K30 contains:

• Adaptive cruise retain watch over
• Twin-zone AC
• 12.3-breeze integrated instrument cluster and infotainment contact hide
• 18-breeze alloy wheels
• LED headlights
• Leather-based steering wheel
• Heated, energy-adjustable and energy-folding door mirrors
• Rain-sensing wipers

Stepping up to the vary topping Torres Hybrid K40 grants:

• Vitality bootlid
• 20-breeze alloy wheels
• Leather-based-see seats
• Heated entrance seats
• Heated steering wheel
• Rear door pull-up solar blinds
• Rear atrocious web site visitors Warning
• Blind put apart warning
• Lane replace-collision warning

Visually, the Torres Hybrid differs from its petrol sibling by exercise of new wheel designs, blacked-out C-pillars, and hybrid badging. Internal, the 2 fashions are identical.

All Torres fashions measure 4705mm lengthy, 1890mm wide, 1720mm huge, and characteristic a 2680mm wheelbase.

KGM Torres 2026: Pricing in Australia

Prices listed are power-away

• Torres ELX: $38,000 (discounted at time of writing to $36,000)
• Torres Adventure: $43,000 (discounted at time of writing to $40,000)
• Torres Final: $47,000 (discounted at time of writing to $43,000)
• Torres Hybrid K30: $45,000
• Torres Hybrid K40: $forty eight,000