2023 New Cars

General Motors has announced it will offer a battery-powered Chevrolet Silverado with more than 640km of range. GM President Mark Reuss announced the electric Silverado overnight would be built at the company's plants in Michigan alongside the new Hummer EV pick-up and recently-revealed SUV, though provided few details of the zero-emissions pick-up, including timing.

The 2022 Volkswagen Polo and 2022 Volkswagen T-Roc will receive mid-life facelifts in Australia in the second half of next year. Volkswagen Australia confirmed to CarAdvice this week mid-life updates for the Polo light car and T-Roc small SUV are expected to go on sale in Australia in the second half of 2022 – including the flagship, high-performance R version of the latter.

The world’s biggest car company – Toyota – has offered some free advice to Apple who has reportedly revived plans to sell an electric car. According to a report by news agency Bloomberg, the company’s CEO Akio Toyoda, who is the grandson of the founder of the Toyota Motor Company, told Japanese media this seek he welcomed new entrants into the automotive sector.

Hot hatch fans likely have only a few years to enjoy the last “analogue” versions of the Ford Fiesta ST and Ford Focus ST. Both models are expected to be the last of their breed amid a bold plan by Ford Europe to switch to hybrid or electric power by 2026 – and pure electric power for all models by 2030 – announced last week. The Fiesta ST and Focus ST are developed by Ford of Europe, which means these two models are destined to reach the end of the road at the end of their model cycles.

The next-generation 2022 Suzuki Swift looks set to be unveiled next year with evolutionary styling and mild-hybrid powertrains, according to overseas reports. Japanese publication Best Car reports the fourth generation of Suzuki's popular city car will be unveiled in July 2022, underpinned by a "newly developed" platform likely to shave weight and improve rigidity over the outgoing architecture.