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Cheap ute sales are booming
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By Tung Nguyen · 10 Jun 2023
It seems more and more Australians aren’t willing to wait upwards of 12 months for their new Ford Ranger or Toyota HiLux 4x4 utes, and are instead turning to affordable options served up by GWM, LDV and SsangYong.
China is a car-producing giant
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By Tung Nguyen · 22 May 2023
China has become the world’s largest exporter of new cars for the first time, rocketing past Germany and Japan according to data published this year.
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BYD electric ute spied with more detail
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By Chris Thompson · 26 Apr 2023
A new set of spy pictures has revealed in much more detail the face of BYD’s yet-unnamed electric and hybrid ute.
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Ford Ranger to be built in China
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By Chris Thompson · 21 Apr 2023
China will become one of the few countries in the world to build the Ford Ranger as the brand announced at the Shanghai Auto Show the popular dual-cab ute is set to go on sale there “soon”.
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The hard truth about Chinese cars
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By Stephen Ottley · 10 Apr 2023
To say Australians have embraced Chinese cars is an understatement. In recent years we have bought cars from China in increasingly huge numbers. In 2022 China was the fourth-largest source of cars sold in Australia - behind Japan, Thailand and South Korea - with more than 122,000 examples sold. But five years ago, back in 2017, Chinese-made cars didn’t even feature in the top 15 in sales. In fact
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List of the last manuals!
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By Laura Berry · 26 Mar 2023
Manual gearboxes are being killed off by the soulless, unromantic savages who want a car with an automatic transmission. Which is nearly everybody. So, the car manufacturers are making hardly any manual cars now. But for the few beacons of hope trying to save this rare animal from extinction we’ve made a list of new cars still with manuals that are for sale in Australia. But for how much longer?
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Ultimate MG wishlist?
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By Tom White · 17 Mar 2023
What does MG need to take on Ford and Mitsubishi? Here's what the brand could pull from overseas to flesh out its line-up.
2024 BYD electric and hybrid ute readying
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By Chris Thompson · 05 Mar 2023
The decade of the electrified ute is upon us, and slowly manufacturers of some of the nation’s most popular models have admitted they’ll need to start finding ways to make battery power work for Aussies. But China has already gotten there first.
Which car brand was the top seller in 2022?
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By Tim Nicholson · 01 Feb 2023
It is by far the most dominant automotive brand in Australia, and it’s just been confirmed that it was the biggest selling manufacturer globally last year.
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Will LDV be the biggest van brand in Oz?
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By Tom White · 30 Jan 2023
Like other Chinese-backed automakers in the last few years, LDV has gone from strength to strength, taking a solid percentage of market share away from its popular Japanese and Korean rivals.