Great Wall Motor’s luxury Wey brand – which will debut in Australia later this year as a sub-brand – has just revealed a new flagship SUV that will be the first model based on its new GWM One S platform. The Wey V9X is a six-seat, full-size SUV, measuring no less than 5299mm long, 2025mm wide and 1825mm tall on a 3150mm wheelbase. That makes it over 200mm longer than the GWM Tank 500, itself sized similarly to a Toyota LandCruiser 300 Series, on a 300mm longer wheelbase. A slightly shorter...

Chinese auto giant Geely’s Riddara RD6 electric ute has been launched in New Zealand with the same price as the popular BYD Shark 6 plug-in hybrid ute – NZ$69,990 (~A$63,350) before on-road costs – ahead of first customer deliveries across the ditch in September. Confirmed last year for international export markets including Australia, where it will be known as the Riddara RD6 rather than the Radar RD6 as in China due to a trademark dispute, the battery-electric dual-cab ute also hits the...