Great Wall Motor's Wei brand has opened pre-sales for the second-generation Blue Mountain at 289,800 yuan, swapping the rounded family SUV look for a square, side-hinged-tailgate off-roader. The design pivot puts Wei directly in the territory of Great Wall's own Tank line.
Domestic brands now command nearly three-quarters of China's car market, and the foreign joint ventures that once dominated are being forced into painful self-rescue plans. Toyota and Audi are among those rewriting strategy as the old playbook stops working.
October delivery figures reshuffle China's new-energy carmakers, with Leapmotor holding the 100,000-a-month lead while Xpeng and Xiaomi pass 50,000. Analysts say overseas sales, not domestic volume, now separate winners from the rest as former leaders slip.
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