New 2026 GWM models coming to Australia: Haval, Ora, Wey product offensive unleashed!

Having launched seven contemporary products this year, GWM is ready to assemble all of it again — confirming that it could per chance initiating “no longer much less than” seven extra contemporary items in Australia in 2026 throughout its five sub-brands.

GWM’s multi-tag showrooms are assign to change into so chocker-block with contemporary steel that the Chinese language conglomerate is seeking to persuade dealers to be a half of a brand contemporary “Upward thrust” program that can watch retail outlets and GWM co-invest in bigger retail sites.

Ultimate by becoming a member of “Upward thrust” will GWM dealers be allowed to promote no longer much less than two contemporary items that can attain to Australia in 2026 below the contemporary Wey luxurious sub-tag, with the Wey G9 minivan and Wey Blue Mountain gargantuan SUV locked and loaded for a native initiating.

Wey luxurious sub-tag to bring two PHEV items to Australia

“We will initiating the Wey tag, which is incredibly great tied into what we would like to assemble about our tag,” GWM Australia chief working officer John Kett told media alongside side Chasing Vehicles.

“There will seemingly be optimistic prerequisites below which dealers will fetch fetch admission to to the Wey tag. Upward thrust is a project where the dealers must always invest in bigger stores, so we are in a position to in truth showcase all of our brands and our portfolio.”

Both the Wey G9 and Wey Blue Mountain yell a identical all-wheel force 1.5-litre turbo petrol hunch-in hybrid (PHEV) powertrain with 358kW and 380kW of energy respectively. Both are anticipated to be priced below $100,000.

“We watch PHEVs as being the battleground in [Australia] over the impending years. If we are in a position to fetch with that tech, that allows us to dangle petrol and diesel going for longer,” stated GWM Australia head of promoting Steve Maciver.

Fresh PHEVs plus first EV option planned for Haval SUV fluctuate

The Haval tag will seemingly be revitalised in several recommendations in 2026. Whereas no longer a brand contemporary mannequin initiating, GWM’s most moving-vendor — the Haval H6 midsize SUV — will fetch pleasure from a complete Australian suspension/steering retune early next year.

“Now we own factual launched the H6 [facelift] as a PHEV, and the contemporary next-generation H7 will moreover be a [PHEV],” stated Kett.

Alongside the next-gen H7, which is predicted for initiating in 2026, Kett moreover confirmed that Haval will lengthen the Jolion puny SUV lineup with the Jolion Pro — a brand contemporary mannequin that can present PHEV and, in a predominant for Haval, a corpulent battery electrical (BEV) model.

But Haval is predicted to again skedaddle away out a gargantuan three-row SUV option in 2026. A scheme for the Wey Blue Mountain to place on Haval badges in the community has been abandoned in favour of positioning that crossover in top class territory.

Tank 500, Cannon Alpha to fetch higher pure-diesel engine option

The low-CO2 Wey luxurious PHEV items will support GWM attain emissions credits below Australia’s Fresh Vehicle Effectivity Fashioned (NVES) regime below which pure petrol/diesel autos are penalised.

These credits will backstop GWM’s planned rollout of a brand contemporary 3.0-litre turbo diesel four-cylinder engine for the Tank 500 gargantuan 4WD and Cannon Alpha gargantuan ute in 2026. Both of these items are really available with a PHEV alternative, giving traders powertrain alternatives.

GWM is moreover working on two different pure interior combustion tasks, but they are anticipated for initiating in 2027.

One is a brand contemporary tidy-succesful, prime-tier 4WD mannequin that has been confirmed to be pure ICE, while GWM is moreover setting up a 4.0-litre petrol V8 engine that has been tested in the Tank 300.

Ora EV sub-tag expanding into puny and presumably midsize SUVs

GWM’s hitherto smallest sub-tag, Ora, started lifestyles as a BEV-most moving specialist and in Australia, it at the moment affords most moving the eponymous “Ora” puny hatchback — one of the important nation’s most rate-effective BEVs and a automobile that is continually discounted.

But while GWM Australia has pivoted to listen on PHEVs — which can per chance presumably be compliant below NVES felony guidelines and considered as extra in an instant delicious to native traders — Ora’s BEV lineup will seemingly be expanded with one or two items, this time SUVs.

“In the puny SUV segment, we can unquestionably own an Ora SUV next year,” Kett stated. “We are restful pondering a midsize SUV coming out of the Ora lineup.”

That puny SUV continuously is the GWM Ora 5, which is similar in size to the BYD Atto 3. Battery sizes and driving fluctuate is no longer yet known but is predicted to sit around 500km (WLTP).

The upcoming midsize Ora SUV has no longer yet been printed — but it unquestionably is predicted to present both BEV and PHEV powertrain alternatives with GWM global chief skills officer Nicole Wu revealing to Australian media that Ora will pivot faraway from exclusively focussing on BEVs.

“After we launched the Ora tag, alternative consumers gave feedback to us that they cherished the scale, comfort and styling, but [that] they don’t desire a BEV — they wish hybrid or PHEV,” Wu stated.