Car news, 4 Oct ’24: Electric vehicle sales down in Australia as hybrids surge, Cadillac prices Lyriq EV SUV from $117K, and more

It might surprise you to discover that Cadillac – the 123-year-old American luxury marque that has been the pinnacle of the General Motors stable since The first Cadillac to officially go on sale in Australia in decades also happens to be the first-ever electric Cadillac. But has the striking Lyriq been worth the wait?

Boxy styling, 137km EV range, rapid performance and an adventurous edge all at the right price. The H7 can’t be ignored, so why don’t we love it?

New plug-in performance monster deserves more than just city posing. We test it on Targa Tasmania’s finest before a ballistic fact-finding track session

With 430km claimed driving range, 700Nm of torque and 3.5T towing, is the MGU9 EV an electric AWD ute that can actually tow your boat on the weekend?

We've finally driven the all-new, fifth-generation Mitsubishi Pajero on Australian soil – literally! – in this first taste of what it's like off-road from behind the wheel of a range-topping GSR.

Ferrari has finally brought back the iconic gated manual gearbox. Except it hasn’t – not quite. The 12Cilindri Manuale is the first three-pedal Ferrari in The gated shifter and clutch pedal are back at Ferrari – but the conventional manual hasn’t made a full return. The distinction matters, but not as much as you’d think

Leapmotor has struggled to make its mark in a market swamped by affordable Chinese electric vehicles. At a time when rivals are experiencing explosive With lots of tech and a pricepoint to turn heads, is the new BO5 hatchback the car to firmly put China's Leapmotor on the map in a crowded EV market?

Swedish-branded, Chinese-built hyper GT is huge on style, manic in pace and reasonably priced. But can it seduce with enough charisma to find Aussie buyers?

Kia’s petrol-powered K4 hatch appears to be fighting a losing battle against the wave of sharply priced small Chinese EVs. But for the purists, there’s still plenty to like

Volvo puts itself in the key midsize electric luxury SUV buyers’ conversation with first electric equivalent of its best-seller

On the July morning that our newest long termer, the 2026 RAV4 GXL AWD, landed in the Chasing Cars garage, Toyota’s medium SUV was about to celebrate its Australia’s most popular SUV, in desirable yet affordable GXL trim, has rolled into the Chasing Cars garage for a proper long-term test. Can it live up to the hype?

Sharing its impressive all-new 800-volt architecture with the third-generation CLA, the new five-plus-two-seat GLB champions space efficiency, driving comfort, refinement and EV tech

Not quite the full-on, game-changing, low-cost EV we were promised, cut-back Model 3 RWD still delivers superb value

The Nissan X-Trail has never been a bundle of laughs … unless the original model’s dogged understeer and wobbly body shimmy over corrugations fuelled your With front-drive versions of hybrid medium SUVs making up more than half of sales, Nissan Australia has doubled its X-Trail e-Power line-up with three new FWD variants, lowering prices and fuel use.

In a twist for Mazda Australia, executives believe the brand’s new made-in-China CX-6e electric SUV could become its best-seller, displacing the Latest China-sourced Mazda shows potential, if falling short in execution — particularly the touchscreen

Polite indifference? Cautiously optimistic? We were somewhat kinder on Mercedes-AMG’s initial turbo-four-pot forays of the current-gen X254 GLC SUV (and Key mid-life update sees Affalterbach’s go-fast medium SUV backpedal to older-school turbo-six power: a rawer change, both good and bad

Cadillac has sent a shot across the bow at established European luxury brands as it asks Australian buyers to “give the brand a look” before judging it. An emboldened Cadillac believes Australians are ready to try something new and that it has a genuine point of difference to offer

Cadillac has introduced two electric SUVs to sit either side of the $95,000 drive-away Lyriq medium-large SUV, expanding the American brand’s local Vistiq and Optiq join midsized Lyriq as top and tail to Cadillac's growing premium SUV range

Thanks for joining us this Tuesday, 29th April 2025. Notably in car news today: Mazda has given its CX-90 a pricing haircut in its latest update, and GM

Cadillac has confirmed the fully electric Lyriq large SUV will arrive in Australia in 2024 to shake up the local luxury EV space. Although pricing Initially, the focus will be on small volumes, with buyers encouraged to personalise and order their car from the factory

Thanks for joining us this Monday March 10th 2025. Tesla Cybertruck update for Australia, Cadillac Optiq and Vistiq models confirmed for Australia, Nissan

General Motors has announced it will now be accepting orders for the Cadillac Lyriq electric SUV in Europe where the model will launch in the first half General Motors has confirmed that Cadillac will be coming to Europe, and will be sold first in Switzerland

The Cadillac name could be returning to Australian shores sooner rather than later, more than 15 years after the brand pulled the pin locally. Cadillac could be making a fully-charged return to Australia as the luxury arm of General Motors

Seat component shortage parks production of GWM Australia’s biggest diesel ute

Chery will launch yet another new brand in Australia in the middle of 2027, and this time it says it is targeting the likes of Zeekr and Denza. Exlantix –

Leapmotor’s Australian head Andy Hoang believes there will be casualties in the fight for the hearts of local car buyers. “This is my personal belief. I

In a dramatic shift for the Japanese carmaker, Mazda says the electric CX-6e could become its number one seller in Australia — providing regulatory and

Chinese car brands dominated the sales charts last month, making up more than a third of sales, largely due to the popularity of their electric and Ranger tops RAV4 and Tesla Model Y on the podium while Aussie appetites for BEVs continue to surge

Isuzu Ute Australia (IUA) has pledged to maintain its place in the local new car market for the foreseeable future despite increasing headwinds from

Electric vehicle sales may be rising quickly at long last, but many buyers are still not ready – or willing – to go all in on a battery-only car. The Plug-less or plug-in? We find out if HEV or PHEV is the best type of hybrid in this comparison of two versions of the RAV4 SUV

European new car sales hit the same tipping point as Australia in August, with electric cars and hybrids outselling petrol and diesel for the first time.

McLaren has refreshed its corporate look as it prepares to upend its line-up and end years of commercial headwinds. Flush with £500 million from Abu