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Genesis is giving the GV70, one of its best-selling models, a round of mid-cycle updates for the 2026 model year. The SUV gets subtle exterior design changes largely centered around the front end and additional tech features in the cabin including a huge OLED screen.
Audi showed the refreshed 2024 Q8 that's coming to our market at the end of last October, and the refreshed 2025 Audi Q7 for U.S. consumption at the end of last month. Neither model made changes to its powertrains. In Europe, though, Audi's just revealed two plug-in hybrid powertrains for the Q7 and Q8 that return the PHEV to the market. In 2019, the Ingolstadt brand announced the 2020 Q7 PHEV, but global production issues soon saw it pulled off the market when Audi had to prioritize components. The two new PHEVs pick up the banner and make big improvements on the last efforts.
Nissan just took the wraps off four different concept cars at the Beijing Auto Show, two of them being sedans, and the other two being SUVs. The four cars preview the design and styling of models Nissan is tailoring for the Chinese market, though we wouldn’t be too surprised to see elements of these concepts influence the design of Nissan vehicles sold elsewhere, too.
Mazda traveled to the biennial Beijing Motor Show to unveil two electrified cars. One is a production-bound sedan called EZ-6, and the other is a close-to-production concept named Arata that takes the form of a compact crossover and that's also headed to Chinese showrooms.
These are the two next battery-electric vehicles that Toyota will sell in China. They are dubbed the bZ3C and bZ3X and have debuted at the ongoing Beijing Auto Show.Toyota previewed these two models at China’s most important auto show last year but back then, they were concepts known as the bZ Sport Crossover Concept and bZ FlexSpace Concept. The production versions are very similar to these concepts and Toyota intends on selling both in the Chinese market within the next year.Read: Toyota Chief Believes EVs Can Only Capture 30% Of Future Auto MarketGiven that China is currently the world’s most important battery-electric vehicle market, one would have expected Toyota to drop a whole bunch of details and specifications about the bZ3C and bZ3X but at the time of writing, it hadn’t done so.
The Volkswagen ID.Code concept just debuted at the Beijing Auto Show, providing a glimpse into the future of VW’s SUV design language.
A made-in-China electric vehicle will hit U.S. dealers this summer offering power and efficiency similar to the Tesla Model Y, the world's best-selling EV, but for about $8,000 less.
This here is the totally new Mini Aceman, and it’s an all-electric, Mini crossover. Splitting the size difference between the properly mini Mini Cooper and large Mini Countryman, it fills the space previously occupied by the now-discontinued Clubman, but does so without a gasoline-powered option (or cute barn doors in the rear).