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Your Daily Automobile updates From Around The World [  The Automobile News](  [First Look: Mazda MX-30 Battery-Electric Vehicle]( New model catering to demands of changing U.S. market. Late to the EV game, Mazda is finally ready to show its hand, the automaker today offering a first look at its first battery-powered car, the MX-30. And it’s just the beginning, the Hiroshima-based manufacturer says. The crossover will be offered in several versions, one marking the revival of the brand’s once-popular rotary engine which, in the Mazda MX-30, will serve as a range extender. The automaker also has both a larger plug-in hybrid CUV in the works, as well as a more conventional hybrid model. “Mazda is preparing for the fast-changing U.S. market demands by taking a multi-solution approach to electrification,” Jeff Guyton, president of Mazda North American Operations, said in a statement ahead of the MX-30’s Wednesday unveiling. Mazda’s powerplant offerings Mazda has been one of the more reluctant automakers when it comes to electrification, preferring to stick with ever more efficient variations on its SkyActiv technology, including the –D and –X packages. The SkyActiv-D, no surprise, is a diesel. The SkyActiv-X is a breakthrough technology using what’s roughly described as a Homogenous Charge Compression Engine. Think of it as a system that delivers diesel-like efficiency but runs on less expensive gasoline. [Read Full Article](   [Top Five Performance SUVs In India – April 2021]( Car enthusiasts are always mad for mean machines. For now, if I just ask you to close your eyes and think of a performance car. Then, probably, most of us will be back with either a sedan or maybe a hatchback. Just to be more liberal we can even include the station wagons as well. But, in recent times, tables have turned. To be precise, it has turned in a certain way that it is beyond our imagination. Ofcourse, here we are talking about the performance SUVs. Technology has played a dominant role for them. But, just imagine technology overpowering physics. Well, that is the performance SUV segment for you. So how does this segment affect the Indian market? To start, this segment personally baffles me a lot. First of all, it is a perfect blend of aggression, practicality, luxury and ruggedness. On top of that, they are a perfect choice for the Indian roads as well. Another positive side of owning a performance-oriented SUV is that it is going to attract a lot of attention on the road. Lamborghini Urus “One of the fastest SUVs on this planet”. That’s what Lamborghini claims with those mad numbers. For starters, it comes powered by a 4.0-litre twin-turbocharged V8 engine that produces 650BHP of power and 850Nm of torque. On paper, it does look like a mouth-watering deal. But in the real world, it is even better. [Read Full Article](   [BMW 6 Series GT – Is This Infotainment Enough?]( BMW rolled out the latest operating system 7 last year. This new update brings a lot of improvements to the existing layout as well as it offers some new features too. BMW has lately launched the 6 Series Gran Coupé that comes with the top-spec Live Cockpit Professional package with the OS 7. Let us find out what has exactly changed in this infotainment of the 6 Series GT. Arguably, BMW iDrive is one of the best infotainment systems in any car. The story of iDrive began in 2001 when the German carmaker introduced a colour display in the instrument panel with a rotary dial named the iDrive controller. The 7 Series was the first car to be equipped with the then-new system. Presently, almost all cars in the BMW line-up get the dual-screen high-resolution display setup. BMW has three different infotainment setups for all its car line-up. There is Live Cockpit, Live Cockpit Plus, and lastly the high-end Live Cockpit Professional. Every car and its variant in the inventory of the brand gets a different setup. For instance, the BMW 3 Series 330i Sport has the Live Cockpit while the 330i M Sport gets the Live Cockpit Professional with a 10.25-inch infotainment screen. Similarly, all the 6 Series GT models are equipped with BMW’s latest Live Cockpit Professional. The 6 Series GT has a dual-screen setup. There is a 12.3-inch digital driver display with another 12.3-inch (1920×720 pixels) touchscreen infotainment display. The central information display can be operated via touch, iDrive dial, voice commands, and gesture control. The iDrive dial supports touch functionality as well as handwriting recognition. 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