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A senior Toyota Australia executive has confirmed the brand’s entire range, aside from GR performance models, will be electrified by the end of this decade, signalling the hybridisation of Australia’s most popular car.

The Mazda CX-90 has broken cover overnight, with the company's most powerful - and most premium - SUV set to act as a three-row flagship for the Japanese brand in Australia.The biggest application yet of Mazda's new "CX."

Potentially Australia's most affordable EV spotted in the wild.

GWM's new off-roader breaks with tradition by offering a petrol-electric hybrid driveline. The entry-level model, the Lux, arrives in showrooms at $55,990 drive-away, making it appear to be great value.Standard equipment even in this entry-level variant is good with twin 12.3 inch screens, a powered driver's seat, full Apple and Android connectivity, digital radio, powered and folding exterior mirrors, a sunroof and on-board tyre pressure monitoring.Safety is looked after with the latest driver aids including cross-traffic alert, active cruise-control and autonomous emergency braking. Lane-keeping assistance and parking sensors are also part of the deal. Tank has been locally tested and achieved five ANCAP stars.Power comes from a two-litre turbocharged four-cylinder engine with the electric motor adding enough power and torque to take the total to 258kW and 615Nm. There's a nine-speed automatic transmission and the Tank also features a low-ratio transfer-case to give proper off-road gearing.

Things are looking bleak for Honda Australia, as production issues hit its most important hybrid models.

Suzuki has finally confirmed the coming all-electric Jimny, thanks to a silhouetted image of the iconic small off-roader that dropped last week… that’s the good news. The bad news is: will it be for Europe only? That’s the million-dollar question, at least, according to Suzuki itself.

The medium SUV field has always been stacked with heavy hitters like the Mazda CX-5, the Toyota RAV4, the Hyundai Tucson and the Kia Sportage. So, can the Haval H6 mix it with the big boys? Andrew 'Chesto' Chesterton puts the H6 Ultra to the long-term test to find out.

There’s no nice way to say it - 2022 was a bad year for Nissan. The once-popular brand took a slide in the sales race, dropping more than 35 per cent of its total volume and plummeting from seventh in overall sales in 2021 to just 12th in ‘22. But there is good reason for Nissan executives to hope for a turnaround in ‘23, thanks to an almost entirely re-freshed line-up filling its showrooms.

Hyundai Australia has secured hundreds of additional units of some of its N performance models, adding to the stocks already available for “immediate delivery”.

Now that it has arrived in the form of the GWM Tank 300, it kind of makes us wonder why it’s taken so long to get a ladder-chassis, off-road four-wheel-drive with a conventional (rather than a mild or PHEV) hybrid driveline on to the market here.