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The 2017 World Car of the Year award winners have been announced this week at the New York motor show, with the Jaguar F-Pace taking top honours. Jaguar's first SUV took out the flagship World Car of the Year award, making the F-Pace the first British car to take the overall win since the awards were inaugurated in 2003. Going one better, the F-Pace also took out the World Car Design of the Year award.

The Subaru Ascent concept, heralded last year by the Viziv-7 show car, has debuted at this week's New York motor show. Previewing the long-expected replacement for the Tribeca crossover, the Ascent concept is 5050mm long, 1989mm wide, 1839mm tall, and rides on a 2972mm wheelbase. If the final release of the car sticks to those dimensions, it will be larger than many of its competitors, including the Toyota Kluger, Honda Pilot, Nissan Pathfinder, and Ford Explorer.

Jaguar has revealed its anticipated four-cylinder F-Type, debuting as the new entry engine in the recently updated Coupe and Convertible lines. The new engine option will come to Australia in the fourth quarter of 2017, available in basic F-Type and up-spec R-Dynamic grades for both body styles. Full pricing is still to be revealed, but if you'd been hoping for a sub-$100k figure, you're out of luck: Jaguar has confirmed a $107,300 starting point, before on-road costs.

The big new Infiniti QX80 Monograph concept has been given a full digital debut today, after having first been previewed last week. Beauty and the Beast rolled into one big luxury barge, the QX80 Monograph nonetheless delivers a more resolved look than the model currently offered in Australia, with themes that draw it closer to the brand's latest styling.

There’s a slim chance the new-generation Subaru Ascent SUV – the Japanese brand’s biggest-ever model and long-awaited successor to the Tribeca – may be offered in right-hand drive. Ascent is the name the brand's US arm has chosen for its new SUV model, presaged by the Viziv-7 concept, a show-car measuring 5199 millimetres long, 2030mm wide and 1878mm tall. The production version is set to be that big, too, making it larger than the likes of the Toyota Kluger.