The Week That Was – Toyota RAV4 Jaguar F-Pace Mercedes-Benz GLS-Class

Toyota’s busy 2015 isn’t quite over yet, with an updated RAV4 squeezing in before the end of the year, joining updated versions of the Camry, Corolla hatch, Prius C, Prius V, Aurion, HiAce, Prado, LandCruiser 200 and an all-new Hilux.

For 2016, Toyota’s medium SUV features a restyled front and rear, with new LED-intensive light-clusters, new alloy wheel designs and improved driver assistance technologies.

Despite the changes, Toyota has been able to hold the price of petrol automatic variants, and in some cases reduce them slightly, manual versions go up by $500 while diesel versions, now equipped with a particulate filter, rise between $1000 and $2000.

Jaguar Australia announced pricing for its first-ever crossover model, confirming that the Jaguar F-Pace range in Australia will start at $74,340 for the entry-spec F-Pace 20d Prestige and top out at $120,700 for the flagship 280kW supercharged F-Pace First Edition.

That broad price-bracket puts the F-Pace up against rivals like the Porsche Macan and Audi Q5, with BMW's X3/X4 duo and Mercedes-Benz's GLC also providing competition at the lower end of the range.

Besides the limited-run First Edition models, four model grades will be offered with the choice of two petrol and two diesel engines. Twelve variants will be offered in total, though deliveries aren't expected to begin until midway through 2016.

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