The Ram ProMaster City is a front-wheel-drive midsize commercial van sold in the United States from the first quarter of 2027. It is the American version of the Stellantis midsize van sold in Europe as the Citroen Jumpy, Peugeot Expert, Fiat Scudo and Opel Vivaro, and it is built at the Tofas plant in Bursa, Turkey. One powertrain is offered, a 166 hp 1.6-litre turbocharged petrol four with an eight-speed automatic. Cargo van and passenger wagon bodies are sold in Tradesman and SLT trim, listing from $37,400 before a $2,595 destination charge.
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Jetour has opened refundable blind orders in China for the Tourer, the first battery-electric car from Chery's SUV and MPV brand. A certification filing lists a 200 kW rear-drive version and a 275 kW dual-motor version; the battery capacity, the range and the prices are all still unpublished. Sales start in the fourth quarter of 2026.
Mitsubishi has updated its Momentum 2030 plan for North America. The four-model US lineup gains the electric Eclipse Sportback this autumn and an off-road version of the Outlander in the first quarter of 2027, and the company has confirmed it intends to return to the mid-size pickup segment with Nissan, without naming a platform or a date.
Ram has priced the 2027 ProMaster City from $39,995 delivered, five model years after the first one was dropped. The badge is the same and so is the Turkish factory, but the van underneath has moved up a class: it is now the American version of the Stellantis midsize van sold in Europe as the Citroen Jumpy and Peugeot Expert.
Malaysia's Bufori has confirmed the final specification of the CS8 grand tourer ahead of first deliveries in early 2027. A blueprinted 6.4-litre supercharged V8 with 810 hp, a carbon-kevlar monocoque, and over 9,000 man-hours of hand assembly per car, for RM2.188 million (about $543,000).
Spyker showed the C8 Preliator XXV at Monterey Car Week in August 2026, five years after the company was declared bankrupt. It is a 25-car run at about 1.5 million euros each, using an Audi-derived 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 with 800 PS and a six-speed manual. Behind it is a settlement that returned the brand to Victor Muller in October 2025 and a June 2026 stake sale to the Ukrainian fintech founder Volodymyr Nosov.
The Genesis GV90 is the brand's first full-size SUV and its new flagship, unveiled on 19 August 2026. It is electric only, with two motors making a combined 490 kW (657 hp) and 800 Nm, a 123.5 kWh battery and 350 kW charging. It is also the first production car with a Roof Airbag, and the top GV90 Neolun replaces its B-pillar with coach doors that open independently.
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IM Motors opened pre-sales of the new L6 with a limited edition designed with Jimmy Choo, priced at ¥244,900 to ¥259,900 ($36,300 to $38,500) and capped at 1,000 cars. The blue is taken from a pair of satin shoes Choo made for Princess Diana in 1997. Nothing under the skin changes.
Volkswagen is running a feasibility study into selling models developed by its Chinese operations in Europe, and building them at underused European plants rather than importing them. Zwickau has been named as a possible site. Six candidate models have been reported, none of them confirmed.
Beijing Hyundai opened Chinese pre-orders on the Ioniq V in three trims, from 119,900 to 139,900 yuan ($17,700 to $20,600), with CLTC range of 540 or 650 km from CATL LFP packs on an 800-volt E-GMP platform. Sales start in September. The driver-assistance system was developed with Momenta, and the infotainment runs AI models from Baidu and ByteDance.
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All models →The Lincoln Corsair is the brand's smallest and cheapest SUV. For the 2027 model year it is sold in the United States only as a hybrid, with a 2.0-litre turbocharged four, two electric motors, a combined 305 hp and standard all-wheel drive. It is built by the Changan Ford joint venture in Chongqing, China, after US production ended in December 2025, and lists from $46,495 plus a $2,295 destination charge. Deliveries start in early 2027.
The Epicland X9 is a full-size six-seat SUV and the first model from Dongfeng's Huawei-partnered brand. It is sold only as an extended-range electric vehicle, with a 74.29 kWh CATL battery on an 800 V system, 465 km of CLTC electric range and more than 1,500 km combined. Pre-sale prices run from 299,800 to 379,800 yuan ($44,200 to $56,000).
The Jetour Tourer is the brand's first battery-electric model, a boxy compact SUV shown at the 2026 Chengdu auto show. Certification filings list a 200 kW rear-drive version and a 275 kW dual-motor all-wheel-drive version, on a Chery-developed lithium-iron-phosphate battery. Chinese sales start in the fourth quarter of 2026; prices have not been announced.
The Defender Dakar is a limited-run road-legal version of the D7X-R that won the Stock class at the 2026 Dakar Rally. It keeps the race car's 4.4-litre twin-turbo V8, unrestricted at 635 PS (626 hp) and 750 Nm, on 35-inch tyres and Bilstein dampers. Reservations open in early 2027 and no price has been announced.
The Bufori CS8 is a two-door grand tourer hand-built in Kepong, Kuala Lumpur, on a carbon-fibre and Kevlar composite monocoque. The headline engine is a blueprinted 6.4-litre supercharged V8 with 810 hp and 973 Nm, good for 0-100 km/h in 3.0 seconds and a limited 330 km/h, but four other engines are offered at the same RM2.188 million (about $543,000) price. Bufori quotes over 9,000 man-hours per car; first deliveries are due in the first quarter of 2027.
The e SKY is Suzuki's first kei-class passenger EV, due for formal announcement in Japan in autumn 2026. Suzuki quotes a 26 kWh lithium iron phosphate battery, a 310 km WLTC range target and a 1,030 kg kerb weight, and describes the figures as provisional. Motor output and price have not been published.
The IM L6 is IM Motors' electric fastback sedan, renewed for 2026 and taken to pre-sale in August. Three trims run from a 333 hp rear-drive version with 725 km of CLTC range to a 680 hp all-wheel-drive Ultra, all on an 800V architecture with peak charging quoted at 396 kW. Pre-sale guide prices start at ¥229,900.
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The Volkswagens sold in China are built by two companies, and one of them is Chinese. That arrangement started in 1983 as a condition of entry, and it has since produced badges that exist nowhere else: Jetta, Wuling, and AUDI in block capitals with no rings. Who holds which half, which brands the ventures invented for themselves, and which of the old partnerships have quietly ended.
Aion is GAC, Jaecoo and Omoda are Chery, Deepal is Changan, Nammi is Dongfeng. Ten Chinese brands whose names do not carry the parent company, grouped by how each one relates to its owner: brands sold only outside China, recent badges on long-established state groups, brands two levels below the group, and one that Huawei supplies but does not own.
Twelve European badges whose nationality does not match their ownership: Cupra, Vauxhall, DS, Opel, Lancia, Alpine, Abarth, MG, Ebro, DR Automobiles, smart and Leapmotor. Some are Spanish or British names owned in Germany or the Netherlands, some are revived badges on Chinese hardware, and several are assembled in a third country again.
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China's charging network reached 23.683 million points at the end of July, up 41.9% year on year. Almost all of the month's growth was private: 536,000 of the 626,000 points added were home or workplace wallboxes, and public charging now accounts for barely a fifth of the total.
The Tesla Model Y outsold every domestic model in South Korea in July 2026, its second month at number one in three. The mechanism is a price: the Shanghai-built Premium rear-drive version lists at 49.99 million won, just under the 53 million won ceiling for a full government EV subsidy.
Kelley Blue Book puts US electric vehicle sales at roughly 463,000 in the first half of 2026, half of them Teslas. The Model Y alone accounted for 163,454 of them, more than ranks two through nine put together, while Toyota and Lexus were the only names in the top 10 to post triple-digit or near triple-digit growth.
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