China’s GWM breaks its export document, helped by Australia

Nice Wall Motor (GWM) claims to have bought 100,208 new autos throughout its manufacturers in October, with 21,052 of them bought outdoors China – an obvious new document.

GWM’s newest gross sales report says about 21 per cent of its tally final month got here from export areas, which represented proportion development of a smidgen beneath 50 per cent year-on-year.

Its factory-backed distributor in Australia, the place it sells the GWM Ute dual-cab in addition to Haval SUVs (Jolion and H6), moved 2462 autos right here in October – wanting its all-time document tally achieved the earlier month however ample to make it amongst GWM’s important markets.

October marked the primary time GWM made the general prime 10, ending tenth and pushing Subaru into eleventh.

Yr-to-date GWM sits 14th within the Australian market with 18,833 gross sales, up 26.5 per cent in a complete market that’s up 0.9 per cent. It’s additionally outsold Suzuki and Honda within the course of.

That’s a drop within the ocean to GWM, which has bought 902,521 autos this yr complete, nevertheless it’s among the many greatest sources of uptake past China – making it simpler for GWM Australia to foyer for extra product in right-hand drive.

Past the GWM Ute, Haval Jolion small SUV and Haval H6 SUV (the latter pair each out there as petrol or hybrid), the corporate plans additional growth right here in 2023.

Certainly, its native factory-backed distributor has quite a lot of new merchandise within the pipeline.

Whereas delayed, we’re nonetheless anticipating to see many of the GWM Tank 300, GWM Tank 500, and GWM Haval Dargo SUVs, the brand new GWM Ora Good Cat EV hatch and GWM Ora Subsequent Cat EV sedan, and the 260kW petrol V6-powered GWM Shanhai Cannon ‘premium’ pickup from 2023.

CarExpert understands the model may have a complete of six or seven electrified automobiles in its line-up by the top of subsequent yr. Nice Wall Motor globally reckons it’ll launch greater than 50 electrified and electrical autos by 2025, a lot of which can hit Europe subsequent yr.

It’s nonetheless not the number-one Chinese language model right here nonetheless, with SAIC Motor’s MG dominating with 38,891 gross sales YTD (up 21.5 per cent) and sitting seventh total available in the market.

Gross sales of China-made automobiles are up 51.2 per cent in Australia this yr, helped in no small half by the Tesla Mannequin 3/Y as nicely.

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