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The 2020 New York motor show has been postponed to August, with the decision coming just hours after New York state announced its first coronavirus containment zone earlier today. The event – which is officially called the New York International Auto Show and was originally scheduled for April 10 – was voluntarily postponed by organisers and not at the order of New York state, according to AutoBlog.

Swedish high-performance carmaker Koenigsegg has revealed its latest fantastical creation in the Koenigsegg Gemera, a plug-in hybrid billed as an "entirely new category of megacar". The first so-called 'Mega-GT' in the world, the Gemera is also Koenigsegg's first four-seater, able to accommodate four adults comfortably with room to spare for their luggage.

British supercar builder McLaren has today announced its newest model, the 765LT. Built as a track-focused, road-legal supercar, the 765LT follows in the same ‘longtail’ design spirit originally seen on the McLaren F1 GTR in the 1990s. As it has done for some time now, power comes from a mid-mounted 4.0-litre twin-turbocharged V8 engine utilising twin-scroll turbocharger technology, forged aluminium pistons and carbon-coated valve train hardware.

Mercedes-Benz has announced the upcoming European arrival of three new plug-in hybrid offerings under its EQ Power brand, revealing its CLA Coupe, CLA Shooting Brake and GLA will be available with the new powertrain option – but not in Australia. The German marque debuted the new members of its compact-car family online on Tuesday morning AEDT, presumably in lieu of an in-person debut at the now-cancelled 2020 Geneva Motor Show.

Volkswagen has revealed details of its new Golf GTE and GTD models ahead of their official debut at the 2020 Geneva motor show next week. The GTE plug-in hybrid (PHEV) pairs a familiar 1.4-litre, 110kW turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine with an 85kW motor and 13kWh battery. When combined, maximum power is raised to 180kW and 400Nm. These figures are on a par with the 2020 GTI for power but 30Nm up on torque.