GWM bought one other million automobiles final yr, 170,000 outdoors China

Nice Wall Motor (GWM) bought a million-plus automobiles in 2022 – its seventh yr in a row to take action – however not like earlier years its quantity outdoors of China accounted for nearly 20 per cent of its complete.

The quickly proliferating carmaker from Baoding bought a claimed 173,180 automobiles final yr in “abroad markets”, from its GWM Pickup, Haval, Ora, Tank and Wey manufacturers. That’s up 21 per cent year-on-year.

Cumulative exports outdoors of China have now topped a million items, the corporate claims.

Driving the expansion was SUV-focused GWM Haval with 616,550 gross sales in 2022, forward of GWM Pickup’s 186,715 world gross sales.

The GWM Tank 4×4 model bought 123,881 automobiles (up 46.5 per cent YoY), the GWM Ora EV model bought 103,996 items, and the Wey luxurious model moved 36,381.

Australia is an more and more essential marketplace for GWM, the place it bought 25,042 of its fashions in 2022 (up 36 per cent) – equal to a smidgen underneath 15 per cent of the corporate’s complete gross sales past China.

This outcome positioned GWM thirteenth in-market, sandwiched between Nissan and BMW within the pecking order, and within the course of it outgunned the likes of Suzuki and Honda.

GWM may also considerably increase its present vary – GWM Ute, and GWM Haval Jolion and H6 – in 2023, with subsequent cab off the rank being the ladder body GWM Tank 300 hybrid 4×4, right here quickly priced from $55,990 drive-away.

Additionally due this yr is the GWM Ora Good Cat electrical hatchback, which has already been spied in Australia forward of its imminent launch to rival the MG 4 and BYD Dolphin.

Past this, we anticipate the bigger GWM Tank 500 to reach in electrified (hybrid or PHEV) types later this yr or in 2024, in addition to the GWM Ora Subsequent Cat fastback EV which was revealed in Europe late final yr.

One other potential starter for this market quickly is the GWM Shanhai Cannon ‘luxurious’ pickup detailed final week on the Guangzhou Auto Present. The second-tier pickup will supply V6 petrol energy, or a ramped-up 2.4-litre diesel possibility, and a PHEV is on the best way.

Whereas previously dominated out, there’s additionally now understood to be an opportunity the GWM Haval H6 PHEV – with an EV vary effectively over 100km – will come right here to rival the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV and MG HS Plus EV too.

Globally Nice Wall Motor will launch greater than 50 electrified and electrical autos by 2025 because it plans to develop into a number one world participant in so-called ‘new vitality autos’.

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