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• LDV Terron 9 ute available with $3000 discount, starting from $47,990 for ABN holders

  05-01-2026 23:00 via drive.com.au
  ABN holders are eligible for a $3000 discount the new LDV Terron 9 ute range, on top of already-available drive-away deals.A new pricing promotion for the LDV Terron 9 dual-cab ute sees it start from $47,990 drive-away for eligible ABN holders.The LDV Terron 9 Origin launched in Australia with a $49,990 drive-away deal for ABN Holders, before reverting to $50,990 drive-away.The new $3000 discount applies to the entry-level Terron 9 Origin, from $47,990 drive-way and the better-equipped Terron 9
  
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• Volkswagen ID. Polo interior makes good on promise to restore physical controls

  05-01-2026 22:00 via drive.com.au
  Volkswagen refers to the ID. Polo EV as featuring “a new cockpit generation” as it begins to trickle out official information about its new electric city car.The 2026 Volkswagen ID. Polo is set to make its full-scale debut later this year, but Volkswagen has revealed the full, undisguised interior of the new city car.The design of the ID. Polo’s interior delivers on Volkswagen’s ongoing promise to restore physical controls in vehicle interiors, after a generation of produ
  
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• Why Australians are still filling up with Russian-sourced petrol

  05-01-2026 21:00 via drive.com.au
  The embargo on Russian oil products isn’t working. Here’s why.Every time you fill your car up at an Aussie fuel bowser, chances are that a percentage of the original source of the crude oil that makes up your petrol or diesel comes from Russia.That shouldn’t be the case. Since 2023, there’s been an embargo on Russian-sourced oil due to the invasion of Ukraine, but it seems that there are still ways for companies to sidestep these regulations.The key intermediary in this i
  
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• Tesla sales in Australia 2025 revealed, with biggest annual decline on record

  05-01-2026 20:00 via drive.com.au
  Tesla has reported another annual drop in Australian sales – despite launching a heavily-updated Model Y – but it is expected to remain the country’s top seller of battery-electric vehicles.Tesla annual sales in Australia have declined for the second consecutive year – as the brand’s largest year-on-year slump on record – despite a mid-year boost from the updated Model Y SUV.However, unlike its global tally, Tesla is expected to remain ahead of growing Chinese
  
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• BYD overtakes Tesla as world’s top-selling electric vehicle maker in 2025

  05-01-2026 04:00 via drive.com.au
  The growth of China’s BYD – and the biggest-ever annual decline in Tesla deliveries – has seen the title of the world’s top-selling electric vehicle maker change hands.Tesla has lost its spot as the world’s number-one seller of battery-electric vehicles to BYD, after a sharper-than-expected sales decline.It is despite Tesla’s top seller, the Model Y family SUV, undergoing a major update in 2025 that stimulated demand – and comes as the US brand prepares
  
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• My First Car: Radio’s Patrina Jones’ 1985 Ford Laser

  05-01-2026 03:30 via drive.com.au
  The car that started Gold 104.3 radio presenter and newsreader Patrina Jones’ love affair with Ford Lasers.Gold 104.3 radio’s Patrina Jones remembers buying her first car – a 1985 Ford Laser five-door hatchback – from a family in Shepparton, having spotted it parked on their front lawn with a ‘for sale’ sign on it. The presenter and newsreader on Melbourne’s The Christian O’Connell Show – which will launch nationally this month – s
  
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• Chery sale makes Tiggo 7 Australia’s cheapest PHEV, undercutting BYD Sealion 5

  05-01-2026 02:00 via drive.com.au
  Clearance deals on 2025-plated Chery Tiggo 7 Super Hybrid give the medium plug-in hybrid SUV the title of Australia’s cheapest PHEV – temporarily.Chery has announced discounts of $5000 off the list price of the Chery Tiggo 7 Super Hybrid plug-in hybrid range.The move to clear 2025-built vehicles has seen the price of the entry-level Chery Tiggo 7 Super Hybrid Urban reduced to $34,990, down from its regular list price of $39,990 drive-away.The move makes the plug-in hybrid SUV Austral
  
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