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Carwow's latest tracker puts UK consideration of Chinese brands at 49%, twice the 24% it recorded in the first half of 2023. Awareness of the individual badges has climbed faster still, though the survey is of the site's own audience rather than a national panel.
BYD's second-quarter net profit rose about 30% to 8.2 billion yuan ($1.21 billion), its first quarterly increase in five quarters, on revenue that still fell 3.2%. Overseas sales carried it: more than half of first-half revenue now comes from outside China, where revenue dropped by roughly a third.
Denza has detailed the N8, a five-seat electric SUV that shares its 3,075 mm wheelbase with the six-seat N8L. Chinese filings list two Blade Battery packs and CLTC range from 800 km to 1,003 km, with a tri-motor version making 890 kW (1,194 hp). The interior drops the instrument cluster for a 1.1-metre projection strip and a 30-inch screen. No prices yet.
Toyota is finishing a Lexus factory in Shanghai's Jinshan district, the brand's first production site in China and the first Japanese-owned car plant in the country with no local joint-venture partner. Investment is 14.6 billion yuan ($2.02 billion), capacity around 100,000 cars a year, and production starts in the second half of 2027.
Li Auto delivered 37,679 cars in August, its first year-on-year growth in four months and its fastest in two years. The eight-month total is still 0.6% below last year's, and hitting the company's own third-quarter guidance now requires a September bigger than August.
Honda and Nissan concluded a joint development agreement to standardize the electronic control units, in-vehicle operating system and control software in their next-generation cars, for use from fiscal 2029. Mitsubishi, named in earlier reporting, is not a signatory and says it is still considering whether to join.
A second-generation BMW X7 has been filmed testing at the Nurburgring with four exhaust tips, which points to a V8 surviving into the new car. The bigger change is the electric iX7 that joins it, reported to run next-generation Neue Klasse batteries and motors on the existing CLAR architecture rather than on a dedicated electric platform.
Land Rover has shown the Defender Dakar, a limited-run road-legal version of the D7X-R that won the Stock class at the 2026 Dakar Rally. The 4.4-litre twin-turbo V8 runs 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 Times reports that JLR has paused work on the next-generation Defender, pushing the full electric version into the 2030s. Staff were told the reason is that the current car keeps selling, at around 110,000 units a year. What JLR has confirmed itself is separate: a smaller Defender-family model on the EMA platform, now offered as a hybrid as well as an EV.
Dongfeng has opened pre-orders in China for the Epicland X9, the first car from a brand it set up with Huawei in November 2025. The full-size six-seat SUV is sold only as an extended-range electric vehicle, with a 74.29 kWh CATL battery on an 800 V system and prices from 299,800 to 379,800 yuan ($44,200 to $56,000). Sales start in the third quarter.
Stellantis and Dongfeng have registered Dongfeng Stellantis Automotive Technology, a company with 8.2 billion yuan ($1.2 billion) of capital that will develop two electrified Jeeps and two Peugeots. They are built at DPCA's Wuhan plant from 2027, and the Jeeps are meant for export.
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.
Lincoln has reopened order books on the Corsair nine months after US production ended. The 2027 car is a 305 hp hybrid with standard all-wheel drive, built by Changan Ford in Chongqing and imported, and it lists at $48,790 delivered against $41,480 for the petrol car it replaces.
Lynk & Co has updated its compact electric SUV for China, dropped the Z from the name and moved the car to an 800-volt architecture with 6C charging, which the company rates at 10 to 80% in 12 minutes. Lidar and the Qianli Haohan H5 assisted-driving system are standard on every version. Prices have not been announced.
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.
Renault has facelifted the Kwid for Brazil with a new front end, a digital instrument display and a 10.1-inch touchscreen, and renamed the trims Evolution, Techno and Outsider. The Evolution lists at R$82,790 (about $16,000) and is being sold at a launch price of R$71,090 ($13,800). It is the cheapest Renault sold in Brazil.
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.
An independent importer is buying AUDI E5 Sportbacks and E7Xs in China, shipping them to Germany and homologating them there. The E5 lists at €59,980 (about $70,200) against a Chinese guide price of ¥235,900 ($34,900), and the cars carry no factory support in Europe.