Drive Away Pricing Valid to 31st August 2023
Bunch of features as most cars have now but caught my attention due to 7 seats and 7 year warranty + Roadside assist and 37k Drive away.
Bargainian said :
Byron Mathioudakis gave it thumbs up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW8yC7UAngg
SydBoy Said:
see if you can add review from NZ Racetrack in post.. !
https://youtu.be/CYF6PqsDba0
What's cherry
Chery is a state-owned company founded by the Chinese government in 1997. It is one of the largest carmakers in China and produces a range of passenger cars, people movers, and SUVs. Chery re-entered the Australian market after a largely unsuccessful two-year run from 2011 to 2013 when it sold the budget-priced J3 hatch and the J11 small SUV. It kicked off its reborn range in 2023 with the Omoda 5 small SUV, which will be followed up by the Tiggo 7 and Tiggo 8 Pro SUVs. More hybrid and electric models are on the horizon.
I seriously thought this was a deal for driveways
With inflation smashing the price of goods and the extortionate pricing Tradies are charging, you still wouldn’t get a new Driveway for that price.
Look at the number of people trying to bait people who don't like that car.
This vs Haval ?
i am in market for 7 seater and I am so used to of Adaptor Cruise Control and Active Lane assistance in my Golf that i want my next car to have those. this is only reason i am not buying a used old Kluger or Outlander. Any recommendations ?
Haval H6 isn't a 7-seater though
Going from a Golf to an Indian/Chinese car… good luck with that lol
I wish i didnt have to, I love my Golf, got all bells and whistles but need 7 seater for family. I was looking at expensive end of the 7 seater range but Phill Lowe says NO!
Honda CRV 7 Seater for $40,999 driveaway.
@dealhunter52: Damn. I'm in Melb but might be worth the 6 hr drive (and associated re-registration locally)…. let's see.
good to see the RBA's policies having the right effect.
At least reliability will improve.
You'd think anyway.
You'd hope
I disagree with the logic in that.
@malleusamentibus: Methinks Someone hasn't owned a VAG car.
You have to experience it, then you'll understand.
@Drakesy: lol. brand snobs have no idea what theyre talking about
keep peddling your trash if it makes you feel better
Yeah, it's probably an upgrade!
Going from a Golf to an Indian/Chinese car… good luck with that lol
Good luck with your next Cricket or Ping Pong
Coz that has what to do with what exactly?
Wish i could buy an Aussie one. Oh wait,we dont have the tech nor ability to build one
Isn't Indian automobile manufacture infamously guarded heavily by Mahindra-Tata tarriffs and bribery - hence no competition to Mahindra, Tata and others who would not last a year if the Japanese had been allowed to establish their own factory?
The first Australian car was the very respectable Phaeton steam car was made in 1896 by Herbert Thomson and Edward Holmes of Armadale, Melbourne. This was a car built when certain countries could not afford an ox to ride. In 1901 Harley Tarrant produced the first petrol automobile Tarrant automobile, built entirely in a small workshop in Melbourne. The first Australian-built Ford was a Model T launched in June 1925. Again when certain other countries could not afford oxen for transport.
Or do you mean the factories like Ford USA opened 1925 in Geelong, outside Melbourne to produce Model T Fords in Australia? Perhaps you mean Leyland, Mitsubishi, Holden (GM USA), Ford and Toyota especially the Holdens and Toyotas exported to the rest of the Commonwealth particularly South Africa?
While other a certain countries not renowned for humility thought the Standard 2600 was an Indian designed car not the insipid 4-cylinder Rover SD1's that Leyland could not give away that versus the all-alloy 3.5litre V8 Rover SD1? Or that still manufactures the 1956 Morris Oxford as a luxury car for politicians?
Holden (GM) was shuttered in 2020. It was closed for political-financial reasons not because a nation that still uses oxen for transport.
Or do you mean others like British Leyland Australia (CKD complete knock down kits for everything from Austin, Morris, Mini, MG, Leyland, Dennis, Bedford, Jaguar to Rover to Land Rover to Range Rover), Renault Australia, Rootes Australia, Mack Australia (heavy trucks), Iveco Australia (still in production) Kenworth (heavy trucks) Volvo Australia (Heavy trucks currently still operating), Volkswagen Australia or Western Star Australia (heavy trucks)
Or perhaps you mean Caterpillar Australia or Komatsu Australia, or Leibherr Australia?
Or perhaps you're thinking of Australian-UK Thales Australia joint venture and the Bushmaster, the Australian-Korean joint venture Hanwa Redback (APC-IFV) or Australian-Rheinmetall with the Boxer IFV-APC?
Australia had more Daimler Double 6's and XJS's 5 litre V12's than Indian Railways had trains. You're welcome to peruse the used cars section of any Australian car trading site.
And then the following boutique marques Absolute Pace", ACE EV (2018 – present), Alpha Sports, Amuza, Ascort (1958–1960), Australian Six (1919–1930), Australis (1897–1907), Austral, Birchfield (2003–present), Birrana, Blade Electric Vehicles, Bolwell (1963–present), Bomac, Borland Racing Developments, Bowin Cars (1968–1976), Brabham Automotive (2017–present), Buchanan, Buckle Motors, Bullet (1996–present), Bushranger, Caldwell Vale (1907–1913), Canstel, Carbontech(1999–present), Cheetah Racing Cars, Chic (circa 1920s), Classic Glass, Classic Revival (1989–present), Cobra Craft, Custom Buses, Daktari, Daytona (2002–present), Denning, Deuce Customs (1979–present), Devaux (2001–present), DRB Sports Cars (1997–present), E-Vade (present), Elfin (1958–present), Evans, Finch, G-Force (1986–present), Giocattolo (1986–1989), Goggomobile (1958–1961), Hartnett (1949–1955), Harden Electric Vehicles (2020 – present), Homebush, Ilinga (1974–1975), Joss, Kraftwerkz (2002–present), Lightburn (1963–1965), Lloyd-Hartnett, Matich (1967–1974), Minetti Sports Cars. Nasenbaer, Nota (1955–present), OKA, Pellandini Cars (1970–1978), Pioneer (1897–1898), Piper, PMC Australia\Ansair, PRB, Purvis (1974–1991), Python (1981–present), Ralt, RCM, Rennmax (1962–1978), RFW, RMC, Roaring Forties (1997–present), Robnell, Sharpbuilt, Shrike (1988–1991), Skelta (2004–present), Southern Cross (1931–1935), Studebaker (1960-1966), Tomcar (2005 – present), White Pointer?
Holden Monaro was exported to UK and USA though I never liked it- it got very god reviews. The last model Holden Commodores and Ford Falcons were possibly global export models- especially the high displacement models.
@malleusamentibus: Indian car market leader is Suzuki since last 30 years, Mahindra and Tata have increased their share in car market in last few years, still Suzuki is well ahead. Suzuki has multiple manufacturing units in India.
@malleusamentibus: Tata and Mahindra don't need guarding as you stated … ,,!
They were making cars when Australia had car manufacturers and they are still making cars even though Australia stopped long ago and all due to quality and technology upgrade adoption overtime
They were making cars when Australia had car manufacturers and they are still making cars even though Australia stopped long ago and all due to quality and technology upgrade adoption overtime
Slight population differences help too 😉
As does the Indian market being happy with low safety feature cars, and simply buying the cheapest. Aus govt had other thoughts on what they'd accept on our roads (thankfully).
@spackbace: Read the full comment and understand what it says … LoL … !
As far as safety is the issue then XUV 700 comes with five start safety that is globally tested standard… LoL
Read the spec without coloured glasses 😂
Safety is one of the core pillars of the XUV700 experience:
The XUV700, with 7 airbags on the top variant; comprising of driver and passenger front airbags, curtain across all three rows, side airbags and a driver knee airbag.
The AX7 versions of the XUV700 offers comprehensive Advanced Driving Assistance Systems (ADAS) as standard. This includes Smart Pilot Assist, Adaptive Cruise Control, Automatic Emergency Braking, Lane Departure Warning, Lane Keep Assist and even Traffic Sign Recognition as standard.
The XUV700 AX7 range also has automatic headlamps with High Beam Assist, which switches automatically between low and high beam.
Safety on the AX7 range is further taken care of by the tyre pressure monitoring system
The AX7 L also has a Stop and Go driving function as part of its adaptive cruise control, allowing for stress free driving in city traffic.
@SydBoy: Lool… No, it's not because of "quality and technology" 🤣 It's because of economics. Indian workers are very cheap and thus it is much cheaper to manufacture stuff there that's labour intensive. Workers in Australia are very expensive and thus It's not sustainable to manufacture mass-market labour-intensive goods here.
@UrbanLegend: I thought Australia is advanced to have 90% manufacturing done using robot so where does Labor get into all this?
America still manufacture cars so you think they have cheaper Labor than India? .. lol
😂😂😂
@SydBoy: Don't know. Haven't been there. I gotta admit haven't heard that many Australian "students" heading towards India so can't pull up any references either. Probably because we're too embarrassed at all the "world-class" Indian cars and road networks. Glad you're here to help us out with our dodgy cars and roads… lool 🤣
@malleusamentibus: You don't seem to have any idea about Indian car market, btw. There are at least 15 players and 3 or 4 of them being Indian, Mahindra being just one of them. Market isn't guarded by any brand as you seem to suggest.
Oh yes , golf
The same company that cheated on emissions.. wonder what else you can trust there..
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
Mahindra is better than that, atleast honest.
Mahindra is better than that, atleast honest.
And you know this how?
Dieselgate was discovered after the fact…
Probably more reliable than a VAG car
Walk!
Tiguan Allspace. We traded up from a Kamiq and are super happy. Both front seats can go back 90% of max with rear facing baby seats installed, which is necessary as I'm 195cm & she is 180cm. Such a lovely car to drive. Looks the business too.
Haval has quadruple spaced font spacing on the ugliest font ever created, badged across the back of it. Reason enough to avoid.
At least the H6 looks better than whatever this is.
Tiguan Allspace or CRV 7 seat.
Tiguan, if you can get it for similar price as CRV ($40,990 driveaway). Although, my mechanic always advise me to get Japanese over European cars due to cheaper service and parts costs.
The serving price differential isn't as much as it used to be (though still exists). Tiguan is more, but comes with more fruit and is a much better drive. Depends if you're happy at 41k or 50k
Yes, hard question, which piece of shit should you buy?
Their website looks just as bad as their cars.
It's because they outsourced it to themselves
Looks like website was developed by a local company "Cox Automotive". https://www.coxautoinc.com.au/
Definitely hasn't done a good job at all of that.
I'm curious about the reason behind the low-resolution graphics. Could it be due to the limitations of TGP internet :)
Nah just lack of care.
It's all about the cat like styling and colour choices in the interior!
I had to scroll all the way to the bottom. Not a single "Bought 10", well done team..
Which means OzBrs don't think it's insanely priced
Absolutely true. If it was $200k, yeah that's when we'd be seeing more of the classics.
#hello
Made in India: no thanks.
crazy how your hphone will soon be made there
hphone already is I'm sure. Knock-off, rebadged iphone lol
There is a "BIG" difference between having a manufacturing plant at a certain place as opposed to a product originated at the same place.
….. and being neither a manufacturer nor an originator but just a commentator.
How about made in china. Lol
Current Indian manufacturing is like what China was 10-15 years back.
Even a 10-15 year estimate is being overly generous imo, firms with decades of hardware manufacturing experience like apple are having trouble with quality standards in india. Apple are having outrageous rejection rates as high as 50% for low value added components like iphone casing coming out of their Indian factories. The required labour force and infrastructure is simply not there.
Nissan sued the government of india for $770million. Tells you pretty much the state of india tbh.
That was nothing to do with quality or manufacturing if I remember correctly
as if Aus is manufacturing cars. lol
Made in India: no thanks
Made in China: No way
Made in Australia: :D :D hahaha… you must be joking!
Both India and China subsidise and support their auto industry. Guess which other country refused and lost theirs?
Don't laugh about it mate, it isn't funny.
Where did you learnt that India subsidy their cars? ( Definitely there will be support but that was available to ford as well as Holden but they still left Australia but they exist in US why? Not subsidy or cheap labour but because of larger local market nothing else … !
Get Australia population to $300m and you will see many industries return to Australia.. !
@SydBoy: what about diversifying export portfolio to include more finished products with quality and intelligence as a speciality of Australia.. Imagine the future of Australia if we can manage to utilize the best of AI revolution.. and there are many more possibilities.. overpopulation can drag us backwards instead..
what does subsidy exactly mean? how much has our government incentivised GM in the name of Holden ripping off tax payers hard time? and what we are left with after all this? lots of skilled workers unemployed and too many cars to get rid off.. Imagine someone who had just bought Equinox thinking it's a great car from a great brand, none of which is true.. These things are much more intricate for us to discuss with right details.. what all matters is outcome.. India can never incentivise any of its industry to that level as of US or Australia or any other developed country.. India simply doesn't have that much money.. Mahindra formed a partnership with Renault, learned from them and developed its indigenous tech and now they are pretty much established on that front.. Scorpio is a well renowned card in India, very much time tested and evolved.. It's just a matter of conditioning this car to the Australian road conditions.. Look and feel is just subjective and will eventually get in tune with local taste.. Moreover you just look at any new car, no matter which brand it comes from, the design elements always look to be stolen from some other existing car model..
It's laughable that Australia can't establish a brand of its own despite having a well established research and development base.. When India didn't have any of it, their govt established a partnership with Suzuki corp and created a brand named Maruti, which was so much in line with expectations of Indian public, it was hard to beat by likes of Toyota or Honda when they entered Indian market.
Imagine we start building cars again here in Australia with already existing facilities and skilled workforce, we no more need to wait for new sensible cars for months.. all it takes is will power from our government..
Australia might have many positives as compared to China, India or any other country.. Every country has its own set of challenges.. let's stop making excuses and push the right agenda in next elections and get our production line back in action.. Surviving on just digging and selling won't work for very long.. we need to learn to transform it into end product in a cost effective way..
Lol.. China, India, Japan, US and Germany are the only countries which make most of the goods across the world. "No thanks" to what! You live in an illusion, mate.
Envy 😄 need burnol
This is probably one of the coolest car's I've ever seen. Gonna try to convince wife to buy this one.
Which planet are you on?
Haha, nice one :D
Exactly! The car looks fine to me. Don't understand why people are saying the car is ugly.
if their subsidiary SsangYong to assemble should ok but does not look like
SsangYong sold to KG Group (S. Korea) last year.
What the hell.
Read the comments before clicking on the 0-image thumbnail and expected it to be hideous.
Looks completely fine. Most SUV's are ugly and bulky in my eyes but this just seems like it would look at home next to any other ugly SUV on the road. Hell i've seen uglier.
Hell i've seen uglier
Yeah, it's not that bad. Model Y makes me want to scratch my eyes out.
True. Line up every SUV side by side and remove badges and it would be pretty hard to tell what they are.
It made for entertaining reading looking at a Facebook add for Mahindra's and reading the comments. They are a massive Indian company that has a lot of experience making vehicles for very tough operating environments. A lot of people making assumptions based on existing biases but also a lot of regional people who have been using and seeing a lot of them being used successfully in their intended environment. It seems they have been quietly winning a lot of fans in country towns. Toyotas prices are a joke nowadays so it makes sense people are looking elsewhere for a cheap, strong, reliable vehicle.
The farmers getting their Pik-up to match their tractors which are also very good
Its true for anything new that comes to Australia. The first reaction is derision, followed by racist insinuations, then begrudging acceptance that its all they can afford, and quiet realisation that its pretty good. For a country that manufactures nothing, we sure are an opinionated lot.
true. lots of MGs and Havals on the road now.
So true
Aint that the damn truth. Even when we did make cars they were pretty crap, by and large.
This is the best comment on the whole thread..
The only place we exported cars to was the middle east and NZ…
To make it fair the world, and including India also do a lot of racist insinuations and begrudging when it comes to Chinese made products,
Ever more increasing hate since covid, but hey ignorance is a bliss?
Spot On. Even the Japanese cars were initially derided and now Toyota is Australia's favourite brand. Then the same attitude for Korean manufacturers and now they are all good. I had heard the same arguments against the Chinese cars till about a decade ago and now they seem to have been accepted as well. This Indian car looks OK and the price is quite attractive.
a lot of fans
By those unable to afford a second hand Cruiser perhaps. Any half serious cocky wouldn't be caught dead in a Hindy.
Not afford, simply be able to purchase one. Toyotas simply haven't been available. Silly prices paid for paddock bashers. Paying too much for Toyotas isn't new, there is a reason you have always seen more Nissan Patrols in the ag sector compared to mining.
Can't say I've seen too many Patrols west of Rocky & barely any north. It's Cruisers, then Luxes mostly.
@The Judge: HiLuxs are shit nowadays. Bugger all range and a poorly designed fuel inflows that can't handle Hi Flow. I have to turn the regular nozzle upside down in the HiLux I drive. I have to drive it daily for work, the only good thing is the copious cup holders within reach of the driver compared to the 70 series Land Cruiser ute which I also drive. That has shit ergonomics. Competition is good for everyone.
I took a skim through the comments here and wasn't going to take part because it seems to be a fest of opinionated folk who don't have look like they posess much empathy.
But I wanted to chime in to give my experience. I did the Rickshaw Run across India (3 weeks driving across the country in an auto-rickshaw), and I was blown away by how bad the roads are in a lot of rural areas (and city). Talking potholes the size of a 44-gal drum all over the roads, as deep as your knee and cars slowing to walking pace to drive through them. Then the bitumen (of a national highway) just stopping randomly, followed by a couple of km of dirt road, which is full of massive potholes and gullies. Dusty, dirty. When the cars were going through them, they were swaying all over the place and zigzagging around to find the least deep zones. There were times I thought a bus or truck were going to tip over onto us.
Anyway I realised that any car on Indian roads must have the most robust and reliable suspension to take such a daily beating.
There were endless Mahindra SUVs and 4WDs and things driving around, plus Tatas (mostly trucks). So I came away thinking, Mahindra must make the most reliable cars to put up with roads like that and that I would actually consider having one in Australia. Maybe those here who think Mahindra are unreliable or low quality should go take a look at Indian roads.
I dont think so. This is their first real car which is competitive in developed car markets. The rest of their range is fairly agricultural stuff.