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Nissan Australia has announced plans to make a third of its total volume electrified by 2022, led by the new Leaf electric vehicle. Announced at an event in Sydney today, the electric push is part of Nissan's global M.O.V.E. to 2022 plan, and is designed to establish it as a leader on electric vehicles in Australia.

French manufacturer Peugeot says that while it will continue to sell diesel vehicles across multiple markets, it has stopped its R&D spend into the technology as it shifts focus to electrification. Speaking to CarAdvice at the Paris motor show this week, Peugeot’s head of future product, Laurent Blanchard, said that with declining sales of diesel vehicles even in the once popular European market, it now makes sense to shift the brand's resources towards propulsion technologies of the future.

Kia may be billed as a youthful and ‘fun’ brand, but one thing it has no plans to offer along these lines is a mainstream two-door coupe or hatch. Two of its top designers this week said such a product was definitively off the radar. Case in point is the new ProCeed ‘Shooting Brake’ wagon launched in Paris this week to replace the pro_cee’d three-door. Head designer of Kia Europe, Gregory Guillaume, told the tale of how the car was axed, then revived once two extra doors were added.

Citroen’s future will based around the two key elements: design and comfort. The brand is focused on bringing innovative technologies enhancing its concept of comfort, and creating daring designs to help differentiate its models in the crowded mainstream market. Speaking to Australian media at the Paris motor show, Citroen global CEO, Linda Jackson, said the brand’s focus on design and comfort is a nod to its historical values – but with a modern twist.

It's not the updated R8 we were hoping for, but Audi Sport – Audi's performance and motorsport division – has revealed a refreshed R8 LMS GT3 race car at the Paris motor show, which could be giving us a glimpse of what to expect from the facelifted supercar. Compared to the previous LMS, which made its debut at the 2015 Geneva motor show, the 2019 R8 LMS gets a pointier snout with three vertical slats above the grille and a hood-like element atop the front intake.