Industry Analysis

GAC Adds Melbourne City FC to Growing A-League Sponsorship Portfolio

GAC's badge is heading to Melbourne City's shorts from the 2026/27 A-League season. It's the brand's second Australian football sponsorship in three months, after...

Xpeng Confirms Five New Models for Australia and Teases 2 Behind a Curtain

Xpeng has locked in five new models for Australia inside six months. Two more sat behind a curtain in Melbourne that nobody was allowed...

BYD Falls 243 Cars Short: The Writing Has Been on the Wall for Years

Two hundred and forty three cars separated BYD from the top of the Australian sales charts in June. Anyone who has watched this brand...

Li Auto Enters Macau: Is Australia the Next Logical Step?

Li Auto Vehicles have just started to roll out in right-hand-drive markets as their global expansion strategy starts to take shape...does this mean they...

EU Closes the PHEV Loophole: Tariffs on Chinese Hybrids Are Coming

BYD has just become Germany's best-selling plug-in hybrid brand by exploiting a gap in the EU's China tariffs. Brussels is now moving to close...

Jaecoo Partners with Western Sydney Wanderers FC for 2026 Football Season

Jaecoo has hitched itself to one of the A-League's most fervent supporter bases, putting the brand front and centre at Wanderers' Football Park through...

BYD Joins Melbourne Victory: Two of My Worlds Just Collided

BYD is now the official automotive partner of Melbourne Victory. And for me on a personal level...this partnership is long overdue! BYD has been confirmed...

The Company That Makes 30% of the World’s Apple iPads Labelled a ‘Military Threat’

The Pentagon just labelled the company that makes mobile phone frames and electric cars a military threat. The US Department of Defense added BYD to...

BYD’s 2026 AGM: Wang Chuanfu Sets a Five-Year Course to the Top

Wang Chuanfu told nearly a thousand shareholders BYD will be the world's largest automaker by scale within five years and spent most of the...

Chery Posts Record May Sales: 4,400 Australian Deliveries as Global Exports Surge 80 Per Cent

Chery delivered 247,823 vehicles globally in May, with international exports up 80.5 per cent year-on-year and Australian sales climbing 84 per cent Chery Group has...

MG Picks Spain for First European Manufacturing Facility

MG's parent company SAIC is building in Europe because it has to — the EU handed it the highest tariff rate of any Chinese...

China Is Now Australia’s Biggest Car Supplier and the Gap Is Getting Wider

In May 2026, more cars sold in Australia were built in China than in Japan, Germany, Thailand and South Korea combined. The May 2026 VFACTS...

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