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BYD expects to bargain a important stock of Australia's humble wagon marketplace with its caller Seal 6 Touring.
Wagon and sedan versions of the Seal 6 plug-in hybrid (PHEV) arrived Down Under successful May and recorded a combined 249 income to the extremity of June.
However, BYD expects monthly income to ascent to betwixt 300 and 400 units, with request skewed towards the Touring flagship.
Should that forecast beryllium accurate, the Seal 6 Touring could overtake the Skoda Octavia and Subaru WRX Sportswagon to go the best-selling wagon successful Australia.
"We don't person immense ambitions for the income measurement of this vehicle. We’re readying for astir 300 to 400 monthly Seal 6 sales," BYD Australia main merchandise serviceman Sajid Hasan told CarExpert at the model's section launch.
“It’s astir showing that we tin physique a wide scope of cars for each kinds of customers – fleets, backstage buyers, families and businesses – portion besides creating thing that, arsenic you’ve experienced, is emotionally appealing and amusive to drive.”
Now connected sale, the Seal 6 Touring is priced from $39,990 earlier on-road costs, making it the cheapest plug-in hybrid wagon disposable successful Australia, arsenic good arsenic the country’s astir affordable caller wagon of immoderate kind.
The Skoda Octavia wagon is priced from $43,990 drive-away, putting it successful akin territory erstwhile the BYD’s on-road costs are included.
Beyond that, the Subaru WRX Sportswagon, Skoda Superb, and Cupra Leon Sportstourer each apical $60,000.
Of those rivals, lone the Superb and Leon Sportstourer are disposable with plug-in hybrid powertrains, priced astatine $66,990 drive-away and $69,990 earlier on-road costs respectively.
The Seal 6 truthful holds a important terms advantage, which Mr Hasan believes volition assistance thrust demand.
"Given the terms points of this vehicle, we've ensured that adjacent our apical people is astonishing worth for money," helium said.
BYD Australia’s archetypal mid-size wagon is 131mm longer than the Octavia wagon, arsenic good arsenic 46mm wider and 40mm taller connected a 109mm longer wheelbase.
Both versions of the Seal 6 diagnostic a 1.5-litre Atkinson-cycle four-cylinder petrol motor astatine the bosom of their DM 5.0 Super Hybrid powertrains, though the sedan has a 10.1kWh lithium robust phosphate (LFP) artillery and the wagon scores a larger 19kWh battalion bully for 100km of electrical driving range.
In Touring guise, the strategy produces combined outputs of 163kW and drives the beforehand wheels exclusively. BYD claims the wagon tin accelerate from 0-100km/h successful 8.1 seconds.
Standard instrumentality includes an 8.8-inch integer instrumentality clump and a 12.8-inch touchscreen infotainment strategy with wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, arsenic good arsenic a suite of progressive information and driver-assist exertion including adaptive cruise control, blind-spot monitoring and kid beingness detection.
BYD’s latest propulsion into Australia’s plug-in hybrid passenger-car marketplace follows a record June result for the Chinese automaker.
It recorded 18,881 income for the period – its highest tally to day and conscionable 243 less than long-time marketplace person Toyota, which delivered 19,124 vehicles.
The effect continues BYD’s accelerated emergence successful Australia since entering the marketplace successful 2022, earlier its erstwhile autarkic distributor past twelvemonth boldly predicted the marque would overtake Toyota arsenic the country’s top-selling automaker by 2027.
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