Chery set a month-to-month file in November 2024, pushing it previous fellow Chinese language model BYD for the month.
A complete of 1762 Chery automobiles had been delivered in November, with its greatest vendor by far being the Tiggo 4 Professional.
Chery delivered 745 examples of its new entry-level SUV in its first full month on sale, greater than the Omoda 5 (542 gross sales), Tiggo 7 Professional (203) and Tiggo 8 Professional Max (272) and accounting for 42.3 per cent of the model’s gross sales.
Not solely that, the Tiggo 4 Professional outsold different small SUVs just like the Kia Seltos (473), Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross (627), Nissan Qashqai (302), Suzuki Vitara (324) and Toyota Corolla Cross (639).
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It’s additionally already beating the pricier Jeep Compass, Skoda Kamiq and Suzuki S-Cross in year-to-date figures with 1099 gross sales. It managed this feat towards the Jeep and Suzuki in only one full month.
Chery says it expects the Tiggo 4 Professional to be its greatest vendor in 2025. It’s the most cost effective Chery, priced from $23,990 drive-away.
With 1762 gross sales, Chery additionally pushed previous BYD (1552 gross sales) within the month-to-month depend for the primary time.
The caveats listed below are that BYD remains to be considerably forward year-to-date (18,465 gross sales vs. 10,718 gross sales), whereas Chery arguably has just one direct rival for a BYD product to date.
That’s the electrical Omoda E5, which is sized and priced equally to BYD’s Atto 3.
Whereas Chery has beforehand indicated it plans to carry plug-in hybrid variations of its Tiggo 7 Professional and Tiggo 8 Professional Max right here, these have but to launch domestically to tackle BYD’s standard new Sealion 6.
That mannequin was BYD’s best-selling car, with 847 offered in November – 54.6 per cent of the model’s complete tally.
Each Chery and BYD are current entrants to the Australian market, although the previous had a presence right here – by way of distributor Ateco – within the early 2010s.
BYD successfully relaunched right here in 2022 with the Atto 3 after some earlier efforts promoting the e6 folks mover and T3 van.
It commenced Atto 3 deliveries in September 2022, with Chery commencing Omoda 5 deliveries in April 2023.
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