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Audi is aiming to showcase how its products can offer the best of both worlds, backing up the reveal of its all-new RS7 performance liftback with the more eco-friendly A7 Sportback 55 TFSI e quattro plug-in hybrid.

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) Australia has issued a recall for three 2016 model-year Range Rover Evoques over concerns vehicles may not meet emissions standards. "During testing there was greater than expected variation in CO2 emissions between vehicles," the British marque says in its notice. Three units are affected by this recall, sold between 18 December 2015 and 30 March 2016 – a VIN list is available here.

Hiroto Saikawa, CEO of Nissan, has resigned his post days after it was revealed he had been overcompensated as part of the company's stock appreciation rights scheme. An investigation conducted by the audit committee tasked with finding out and detailing the crimes and misdemeanours of former CEO Carlos Ghosn and former board member Greg Kelly has unearthed evidence of an improper payment to Saikawa back in 2013, when he was an executive vice president.

Mitsubishi could become the second car brand inside the Top 10 to offer a seven-year warranty across the range as part of sweeping changes that may also extend its capped price service program beyond the current limit of three years. Mitsubishi introduced a seven-year warranty on the new Triton ute in December 2018, but is yet to extend it to include other models in the range which have five-year coverage.

Mitsubishi says it has no plans to introduce a rival to the Ford Ranger Raptor ute – or mount a counterattack with a high-powered turbo diesel V6 even though it has access to one thanks to the recent alliance with Nissan-Renault. Ford and Volkswagen are expected to have turbo-diesel V6 power as part of their next generation pickups due within a few years from now, and Toyota is on record as saying it wants to make up for the HiLux’s power deficit.