A small sport utility vehicle (SUV) has become one of the most commonly sold vehicles in Australia for the first time.
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Its form wasn’t quite strong enough to crack the top 20 for the year, instead finishing 55th.
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The brand’s inaugural plug-in hybrid vehicle in Australia, sales of the Sealion 6 kept growing in the following months before it became BYD’s best-seller. It hit the 1000 monthly delivery milestone in August.
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The Toyota Sealion 6 competes in mid-sized SUVs, which are the most popular SUV category in Australia, widely considered the countrys largest by market volume.
(14th, 1598 sales).
Only the Outlander offers a plug-in hybrid powertrain, but the RAV4, Sportage and X-Trail are only offered as hybrid models, while the Model Y is fully electric.
As continues to be the trend, the Sealion 6 is BYD’s top seller in Australia by a significant margin. Its 1122 sales in December left it well ahead of the next closest car, the Seal, which recorded 412 sales, and the SUV accounted for more than half of BYD’s 1993 December total.
The Sealion 6 also only just missed out on being BYD’s top seller for the whole of 2024 had it arrived on time, as the Seal managed to take out the top spot with 6393 sales to 6198.
The Sealion 6 remains a relatively one-of-a-kind option in the Aussie market, given its availability only as a plug-in hybrid vehicle option.
Two options are available – either front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive – both relying on the same 18.3kWh Blade lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery.
Pricing for the two variants is listed at $48,990 and $52,990 prior to on-road costs, sitting alongside the RAV4 Hybrid and petrol-only Outlanders in market spectrum.
It still costs roughly $10,000 less than the cheapest Outlander PHEV and Model Y.
