These are the most important new fuel cars of 2024

An overview, yes, but not complete. In 2024, many more new cars than the models mentioned below will appear, if only because even AutoWeek does not see everything coming in advance. However, with these models you get a good impression of what we can expect next year in the field of cars with a combustion engine on board. Would you rather have an EV? Don’t worry, we will also list electric newcomers for you one of these days.

Some of the cars will appear on both lists. Stellantis, for example, has a knack for offering one model in electric and non-electric form, just like BMW. It is also important to note that the introduction moment of a car is not so easy to determine exactly. On the list you will find models that have already been unveiled that will have their Dutch market introduction next year, but also cars yet to be unveiled that will sometimes not arrive here until 2025.

Audi A5 and Q5

Audi Q5

A new Audi A5, so a new coupe and convertible. However? Not so, at least not immediately. Audi is overhauling its model names, which means that cars with combustion engines will have an odd number in the type designation. The new Audi A5 is therefore ‘simply’ the successor to the current A4, and the A4 will be an EV in the future. The name change is not necessary for the new Audi Q5, which now and in the future has a fuel tank on board.

BMW X3 and 5 Series Touring

BMW X3

The new Audi Q5 will immediately receive a suitable answer, because BMW will present a completely new X3 next year. This segment, which is so important for premium brands, has been completely refreshed, because the new Mercedes-Benz GLC will appear on the Dutch market in 2023. A new BMW X3 in principle also means a new X4, although BMW may keep it under wraps for a while. We expect a new version of the electric BMW iX3 immediately, but it is not that relevant for this fuel list. Also new at BMW: the Touring version of the BMW 5 Series presented this year. For the first time in a long time also as M5.

Citroen C3

Citroen C3

Although all attention was focused on the electric ë-C3 at the introduction, there will soon also be a non-electric version of the new Citroën C3. A 100 hp basic version and a slightly more powerful mild-hybrid variant will be released. The small, SUV-like hatchback will undoubtedly impress with its price tag in that form, although the emphasis in the Netherlands will be on the EV. Stellantis also has a new Fiat Panda in the pipeline on the same Smart Car platform, but it remains to be seen whether a non-electric version will also be available. It is rumored that Fiat wants to continue with the old Panda instead, even though that car has been around since 2011. Fiat’s roads are inscrutable in this regard: the larger 600 was initially only going to appear as an EV, but ultimately did not do so and disappeared. the approximately equally large 500X is not yet out of the range.

Dacia Duster

Dacia Duster

A new Dacia model is always big news. If not for the Netherlands, then for the whole of Europe, where the budget brand from Romania is currently doing very well. The third generation of the Duster has already been presented and looks sleeker and tougher than ever before. The new model will come to the Netherlands in 2024, so you can bet that you will regularly encounter it on this site. Another Dacia SUV will follow in 2025, in the form of the larger and completely new Bigster.

Hyundai Santa Fe

Hyundai Santa Fe

Is it beautiful, is it ugly? Opinions are strongly divided about the new Hyundai Santa Fe, but the fact is that Hyundai also produces high-profile design outside the electric Ioniq line. With its square carriage, the Santa Fe is cooler than ever and offers up to seven seats, lots of space and (plug-in) hybrid technology.

Mazda CX-80

Mazda CX-80

Anyone who answers the above question firmly ‘ugly’ will find a good Santa Fe alternative from Mazda in 2024. We can see the Mazda CX-80 as the longer brother of the CX-60 and that means that Mazda can offer a seven-seater SUV in Europe for the first time in years. Just like the CX-60, the CX-80 is on Mazda’s new, basically rear-wheel drive platform, which also makes the CX-80 lean towards ‘premium’. In any case, count on a plug-in hybrid, but there may be more in store.

Mitsubishi Outlander

Mitsubishi Outlander

We’ll stick with the SUVs for a while, because Mitsubishi is bringing the Outlander, which has long been known abroad, to Europe. This new Outlander will not be as popular as its predecessor once was. Yet it is an important car for Mitsubishi, which only presented ‘rebadged’ Renaults in 2023 with the ASX and the Colt. The new Mitsubishi Outlander has nothing to do with this and is a real Mitsubishi, which will appear again as a PHEV and will be in showrooms in the second half of next year.

Renault Rafale

Renault Rafale

Do you prefer your hybrid SUV with less space? Then knock on the door of your local Renault dealer in 2024, where the Renault Rafale will roll in. Renault’s large coupe SUV is the first Renault according to the latest design language of the French, in which the influences of ex-Peugeot designer Gilles Vidal clearly shine through.

Opel Grandland

Opel Grandland (illustration: Larson)

The new Peugeot 3008 is also in this list, because that car has yet to appear in the showroom. However, the real news in this category will come from Opel in 2024, where the Opel Grandland has yet to be unveiled. As before, the Grandland shares a lot with the 3008. Unlike before, this means that there will also be an electric version. But petrol versions are also available. Count on a 136 hp mild hybrid and a plug-in with 195 hp.

Peugeot 3008/5008

Peugeot 3008

There will be more news within Peugeot in 2024. The more spacious brother of the 3008, the new Peugeot 5008, makes an appearance. As always, we are counting on a longer version of the 3008 with a larger wheelbase and a roof extended further back. The result here too is a practical seven-seater, which makes it clear that there is a lot of news on the way in that area.

Suzuki Swift

Suzuki Swift

The little Suzuki can (almost) always count on our sympathy and with the new Swift it remains true to the core values ​​of that model on paper. In 2024 we will discover whether this is also the case in practice. With modest exterior dimensions, ditto weight and an ‘old-fashioned’ manual gearbox, the Swift is increasingly standing out in today’s automotive landscape.

Skoda Kodiaq and Superb

Skoda Kodiaq

Are there actually seven-seater SUVs that will not get a successor in 2024? It doesn’t seem like that, because the Skoda Kodiaq will also get one next year. At least: the new Skoda Kodiaq has already been presented, but will roll into the Dutch showrooms and the AutoWeek test garage next year. The Skoda Superb is also new, as a brother of the Volkswagen Passat shown below.

Volkswagen Passat Tiguan and ‘Tayron’

Volkswagen Tiguan

At Volkswagen we expect, among other things, a facelifted Golf, but the new Volkswagen Passat and the new Volkswagen Tiguan will not appear with Dutch license plates until 2024. Technically there are many similarities between the two, which as a plug-in hybrid should be able to travel about a hundred kilometers electrically. The seven-seater Tiguan Allspace does not yet have a successor, and will not have one under that name. Instead, Volkswagen is bringing a version of the Chinese Volkswagen Tayron to Europe. A separate model, which will also be built in Europe for the European market.