{"id":486591,"date":"2026-02-17T22:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/486591\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:04:10","slug":"bmws-new-electric-ix3-lands-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/486591\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW&#8217;s new electric iX3 lands in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"authorBio-module-scss-module__bK84Cq__drive-author-bio__description\">Emma has been on our television screens for over a decade. Most of her time in the industry has been spent at racetracks reporting at major motorsport events in Australia &#8211; from TCR and Superbikes to Porsche Sprint Challenge and Supercars. Emma has also hosted various MotoGP and F1 events interviewing the likes of Daniel Ricciardo and Jack Miller. Having previously presented on an automotive show, she made her move to the Drive family in 2020.&#13;<br \/>\nFiercely proud of her Italian heritage, Emma is a coffee loving, stylish-black wearing resident of Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link-module-scss-module__xVbT9q__drive-link__external__wrapper authorBio-module-scss-module__bK84Cq__drive-author-bio__link link-module-scss-module__xVbT9q__drive-link__external__float-right\" href=\"https:\/\/www.caradvice.com.au\/about-drive\/our-journalists\/emma-notarfrancesco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read more about Emma Notarfrancesco<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.drive.com.au\/obj\/tx_dpr:2,q:80,rs:auto:20:20:1,style:cGF0aCB7ZmlsbDogIzI5NjBjNSAhaW1wb3J0YW50fQ==\/driveau\/upload\/cms\/theme\/icons\/LinkIcon\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" alt=\"LinkIcon\" class=\"drive-icon drive-icon-LinkIcon link-module-scss-module__xVbT9q__drive-link__external__icon\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma has been on our television screens for over a decade. Most of her time in the industry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,18979,85337,246149,18846,56315,44,4262,5524],"class_list":{"0":"post-486591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bmw","11":"tag-bmw-ix3","12":"tag-bmw-neue-klasse","13":"tag-ev","14":"tag-medium-suv","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-suv","17":"tag-upcomingmodels"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}