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The Advertiser
13-07-2025
- Automotive
- The Advertiser
Mahindra almost ready to reveal how many cars it sells in Australia
Mahindra Australia is planning on adding its name to the industry-standard monthly sales report from 2026 as it looks to become a top 15 brand here by 2030. The automaker currently doesn't publish its sales figures in the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries' monthly VFACTS report, which covers the majority of the Australian automotive industry, making it difficult to track the brand's progress. Mahindra Australia – and the brand globally – is in the midst of a switch from farm-focused maker of tractors and rugged utes to move into the automotive mainstream, complete with a new logo and brand identity. While it has sold vehicles here for close to two decades, since 2021 it has launched a series of increasingly sophisticated models including the Scorpio and XUV700 SUVs currently on sale in Australia. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. Speaking at the launch of the XUV 3XO – currently Australia's cheapest SUV – Mahindra head of international operations Sachin Arolkar said the company is looking to join VFACTS next year. "We are considering [joining VFACTS]," Mr Arolkar told CarExpert. "We wanted to have a particular scale, which we believe we have with our volume here, and therefore will be on VFACTS. "The launch of this product [the XUV 3XO], the segment we are in, and the kind of volume aspiration, we will be a sizable player and therefore we see now is the right time to be on VFACTS and show our volumes to who wants to see." The VFACTS report is published by the FCAI each month and covers trends, market share as well as raw sales data. It covers most brands, with notable absentees including electric car brands Tesla and Polestar, who both quit the FCAI in March 2024 over disagreements surrounding the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES) emissions regulations. The two EV brands' sales figures are reported and published instead by the Electric Vehicle Council (EVC), headed by former Polestar Australia boss Samantha Johnson. Mahindra said it sold around 4185 vehicles in the 12-month period between April 2025 and March 31, 2025. Its has said its ambition to be a top 15-best-selling brand in Australia – which requires a six-fold increase on its current sales – will include introducing at least one new model annually over the next five years. The automaker has confirmed the next-generation Thar SUV among those, and has confirmed it will introduced electric vehicles to the local lineup, having shown the XEV 9e and the BE 6e Everything Mahindra Content originally sourced from: Mahindra Australia is planning on adding its name to the industry-standard monthly sales report from 2026 as it looks to become a top 15 brand here by 2030. The automaker currently doesn't publish its sales figures in the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries' monthly VFACTS report, which covers the majority of the Australian automotive industry, making it difficult to track the brand's progress. Mahindra Australia – and the brand globally – is in the midst of a switch from farm-focused maker of tractors and rugged utes to move into the automotive mainstream, complete with a new logo and brand identity. While it has sold vehicles here for close to two decades, since 2021 it has launched a series of increasingly sophisticated models including the Scorpio and XUV700 SUVs currently on sale in Australia. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. Speaking at the launch of the XUV 3XO – currently Australia's cheapest SUV – Mahindra head of international operations Sachin Arolkar said the company is looking to join VFACTS next year. "We are considering [joining VFACTS]," Mr Arolkar told CarExpert. "We wanted to have a particular scale, which we believe we have with our volume here, and therefore will be on VFACTS. "The launch of this product [the XUV 3XO], the segment we are in, and the kind of volume aspiration, we will be a sizable player and therefore we see now is the right time to be on VFACTS and show our volumes to who wants to see." The VFACTS report is published by the FCAI each month and covers trends, market share as well as raw sales data. It covers most brands, with notable absentees including electric car brands Tesla and Polestar, who both quit the FCAI in March 2024 over disagreements surrounding the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES) emissions regulations. The two EV brands' sales figures are reported and published instead by the Electric Vehicle Council (EVC), headed by former Polestar Australia boss Samantha Johnson. Mahindra said it sold around 4185 vehicles in the 12-month period between April 2025 and March 31, 2025. Its has said its ambition to be a top 15-best-selling brand in Australia – which requires a six-fold increase on its current sales – will include introducing at least one new model annually over the next five years. The automaker has confirmed the next-generation Thar SUV among those, and has confirmed it will introduced electric vehicles to the local lineup, having shown the XEV 9e and the BE 6e Everything Mahindra Content originally sourced from: Mahindra Australia is planning on adding its name to the industry-standard monthly sales report from 2026 as it looks to become a top 15 brand here by 2030. The automaker currently doesn't publish its sales figures in the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries' monthly VFACTS report, which covers the majority of the Australian automotive industry, making it difficult to track the brand's progress. Mahindra Australia – and the brand globally – is in the midst of a switch from farm-focused maker of tractors and rugged utes to move into the automotive mainstream, complete with a new logo and brand identity. While it has sold vehicles here for close to two decades, since 2021 it has launched a series of increasingly sophisticated models including the Scorpio and XUV700 SUVs currently on sale in Australia. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. Speaking at the launch of the XUV 3XO – currently Australia's cheapest SUV – Mahindra head of international operations Sachin Arolkar said the company is looking to join VFACTS next year. "We are considering [joining VFACTS]," Mr Arolkar told CarExpert. "We wanted to have a particular scale, which we believe we have with our volume here, and therefore will be on VFACTS. "The launch of this product [the XUV 3XO], the segment we are in, and the kind of volume aspiration, we will be a sizable player and therefore we see now is the right time to be on VFACTS and show our volumes to who wants to see." The VFACTS report is published by the FCAI each month and covers trends, market share as well as raw sales data. It covers most brands, with notable absentees including electric car brands Tesla and Polestar, who both quit the FCAI in March 2024 over disagreements surrounding the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES) emissions regulations. The two EV brands' sales figures are reported and published instead by the Electric Vehicle Council (EVC), headed by former Polestar Australia boss Samantha Johnson. Mahindra said it sold around 4185 vehicles in the 12-month period between April 2025 and March 31, 2025. Its has said its ambition to be a top 15-best-selling brand in Australia – which requires a six-fold increase on its current sales – will include introducing at least one new model annually over the next five years. The automaker has confirmed the next-generation Thar SUV among those, and has confirmed it will introduced electric vehicles to the local lineup, having shown the XEV 9e and the BE 6e Everything Mahindra Content originally sourced from: Mahindra Australia is planning on adding its name to the industry-standard monthly sales report from 2026 as it looks to become a top 15 brand here by 2030. The automaker currently doesn't publish its sales figures in the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries' monthly VFACTS report, which covers the majority of the Australian automotive industry, making it difficult to track the brand's progress. Mahindra Australia – and the brand globally – is in the midst of a switch from farm-focused maker of tractors and rugged utes to move into the automotive mainstream, complete with a new logo and brand identity. While it has sold vehicles here for close to two decades, since 2021 it has launched a series of increasingly sophisticated models including the Scorpio and XUV700 SUVs currently on sale in Australia. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. Speaking at the launch of the XUV 3XO – currently Australia's cheapest SUV – Mahindra head of international operations Sachin Arolkar said the company is looking to join VFACTS next year. "We are considering [joining VFACTS]," Mr Arolkar told CarExpert. "We wanted to have a particular scale, which we believe we have with our volume here, and therefore will be on VFACTS. "The launch of this product [the XUV 3XO], the segment we are in, and the kind of volume aspiration, we will be a sizable player and therefore we see now is the right time to be on VFACTS and show our volumes to who wants to see." The VFACTS report is published by the FCAI each month and covers trends, market share as well as raw sales data. It covers most brands, with notable absentees including electric car brands Tesla and Polestar, who both quit the FCAI in March 2024 over disagreements surrounding the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES) emissions regulations. The two EV brands' sales figures are reported and published instead by the Electric Vehicle Council (EVC), headed by former Polestar Australia boss Samantha Johnson. Mahindra said it sold around 4185 vehicles in the 12-month period between April 2025 and March 31, 2025. Its has said its ambition to be a top 15-best-selling brand in Australia – which requires a six-fold increase on its current sales – will include introducing at least one new model annually over the next five years. The automaker has confirmed the next-generation Thar SUV among those, and has confirmed it will introduced electric vehicles to the local lineup, having shown the XEV 9e and the BE 6e Everything Mahindra Content originally sourced from:
Canberra Times
13-07-2025
- Automotive
- Canberra Times
Mahindra almost ready to reveal how many cars it sells in Australia
"The launch of this product [the XUV 3XO], the segment we are in, and the kind of volume aspiration, we will be a sizable player and therefore we see now is the right time to be on VFACTS and show our volumes to who wants to see."
The Advertiser
07-07-2025
- Automotive
- The Advertiser
Australia's best-selling hybrids halfway through 2025
Toyota is still by far Australia's hybrid vehicle market leader, with just one of its hybrids alone – the RAV4 – outselling the number two and three hybrid auto brands so far this year. Only one other brand cracked five-digit hybrid deliveries in the first half of 2025, according to VFACTS sales data, and that was Hyundai. There are far fewer hybrid vehicles on sale in Australia than electric vehicles (EVs), but hybrids account for a larger share of new-car sales overall. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. A total of 93,746 hybrids (HEVs) were delivered during the first half of 2025, compared with 25,613 plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) and 47,245 EVs. This means that of the total of 624,130 new vehicles delivered in Australia during the first six months of 2025, 15 per cent were hybrids, 7.6 per cent were EVs, and 4.1 per cent were PHEVs. Hybrid sales were up 14.9 per cent compared with the first half of 2024. Below is a chart listing all the brands that sell hybrids in Australia. Note this doesn't include PHEVs or mild-hybrids, though it does include Nissan's e-Power vehicles. Below is a chart listing all the hybrid models offered in Australia. A total of eight of the top 10 best-selling hybrids were produced by Toyota Motor Corporation, with the other two being Hyundais. The GWM Tank 500, Honda Accord, Lexus LM, Toyota C-HR and Toyota Tundra are exclusively offered with hybrid power. Where a model line also includes other powertrain types, we've calculated the percentage of sales the hybrid variants account for. There's also a caveat with other Toyotas that are listed in the table above. All Toyota model lines available with a hybrid powertrain lost their standard petrol-powered variants last year, though evidently there was still some leftover stock of certain petrol-only Toyotas. The Toyota Yaris and Corolla tallies also include the GR Yaris and GR Corolla. Lexus has also discontinued petrol-only versions of models like the ES, due to their high hybrid take-up rates. GM Australia and New Zealand splits out its Chevrolet Corvette delivery figures across separate Stingray, Z06 and E-Ray entries. Lump them all together, however, and just 3.9 per cent of Corvettes delivered in the first half of this year were E-Rays. MORE: Australia's best-selling EVs in the first half of 2025 Content originally sourced from: Toyota is still by far Australia's hybrid vehicle market leader, with just one of its hybrids alone – the RAV4 – outselling the number two and three hybrid auto brands so far this year. Only one other brand cracked five-digit hybrid deliveries in the first half of 2025, according to VFACTS sales data, and that was Hyundai. There are far fewer hybrid vehicles on sale in Australia than electric vehicles (EVs), but hybrids account for a larger share of new-car sales overall. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. A total of 93,746 hybrids (HEVs) were delivered during the first half of 2025, compared with 25,613 plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) and 47,245 EVs. This means that of the total of 624,130 new vehicles delivered in Australia during the first six months of 2025, 15 per cent were hybrids, 7.6 per cent were EVs, and 4.1 per cent were PHEVs. Hybrid sales were up 14.9 per cent compared with the first half of 2024. Below is a chart listing all the brands that sell hybrids in Australia. Note this doesn't include PHEVs or mild-hybrids, though it does include Nissan's e-Power vehicles. Below is a chart listing all the hybrid models offered in Australia. A total of eight of the top 10 best-selling hybrids were produced by Toyota Motor Corporation, with the other two being Hyundais. The GWM Tank 500, Honda Accord, Lexus LM, Toyota C-HR and Toyota Tundra are exclusively offered with hybrid power. Where a model line also includes other powertrain types, we've calculated the percentage of sales the hybrid variants account for. There's also a caveat with other Toyotas that are listed in the table above. All Toyota model lines available with a hybrid powertrain lost their standard petrol-powered variants last year, though evidently there was still some leftover stock of certain petrol-only Toyotas. The Toyota Yaris and Corolla tallies also include the GR Yaris and GR Corolla. Lexus has also discontinued petrol-only versions of models like the ES, due to their high hybrid take-up rates. GM Australia and New Zealand splits out its Chevrolet Corvette delivery figures across separate Stingray, Z06 and E-Ray entries. Lump them all together, however, and just 3.9 per cent of Corvettes delivered in the first half of this year were E-Rays. MORE: Australia's best-selling EVs in the first half of 2025 Content originally sourced from: Toyota is still by far Australia's hybrid vehicle market leader, with just one of its hybrids alone – the RAV4 – outselling the number two and three hybrid auto brands so far this year. Only one other brand cracked five-digit hybrid deliveries in the first half of 2025, according to VFACTS sales data, and that was Hyundai. There are far fewer hybrid vehicles on sale in Australia than electric vehicles (EVs), but hybrids account for a larger share of new-car sales overall. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. A total of 93,746 hybrids (HEVs) were delivered during the first half of 2025, compared with 25,613 plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) and 47,245 EVs. This means that of the total of 624,130 new vehicles delivered in Australia during the first six months of 2025, 15 per cent were hybrids, 7.6 per cent were EVs, and 4.1 per cent were PHEVs. Hybrid sales were up 14.9 per cent compared with the first half of 2024. Below is a chart listing all the brands that sell hybrids in Australia. Note this doesn't include PHEVs or mild-hybrids, though it does include Nissan's e-Power vehicles. Below is a chart listing all the hybrid models offered in Australia. A total of eight of the top 10 best-selling hybrids were produced by Toyota Motor Corporation, with the other two being Hyundais. The GWM Tank 500, Honda Accord, Lexus LM, Toyota C-HR and Toyota Tundra are exclusively offered with hybrid power. Where a model line also includes other powertrain types, we've calculated the percentage of sales the hybrid variants account for. There's also a caveat with other Toyotas that are listed in the table above. All Toyota model lines available with a hybrid powertrain lost their standard petrol-powered variants last year, though evidently there was still some leftover stock of certain petrol-only Toyotas. The Toyota Yaris and Corolla tallies also include the GR Yaris and GR Corolla. Lexus has also discontinued petrol-only versions of models like the ES, due to their high hybrid take-up rates. GM Australia and New Zealand splits out its Chevrolet Corvette delivery figures across separate Stingray, Z06 and E-Ray entries. Lump them all together, however, and just 3.9 per cent of Corvettes delivered in the first half of this year were E-Rays. MORE: Australia's best-selling EVs in the first half of 2025 Content originally sourced from: Toyota is still by far Australia's hybrid vehicle market leader, with just one of its hybrids alone – the RAV4 – outselling the number two and three hybrid auto brands so far this year. Only one other brand cracked five-digit hybrid deliveries in the first half of 2025, according to VFACTS sales data, and that was Hyundai. There are far fewer hybrid vehicles on sale in Australia than electric vehicles (EVs), but hybrids account for a larger share of new-car sales overall. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. A total of 93,746 hybrids (HEVs) were delivered during the first half of 2025, compared with 25,613 plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) and 47,245 EVs. This means that of the total of 624,130 new vehicles delivered in Australia during the first six months of 2025, 15 per cent were hybrids, 7.6 per cent were EVs, and 4.1 per cent were PHEVs. Hybrid sales were up 14.9 per cent compared with the first half of 2024. Below is a chart listing all the brands that sell hybrids in Australia. Note this doesn't include PHEVs or mild-hybrids, though it does include Nissan's e-Power vehicles. Below is a chart listing all the hybrid models offered in Australia. A total of eight of the top 10 best-selling hybrids were produced by Toyota Motor Corporation, with the other two being Hyundais. The GWM Tank 500, Honda Accord, Lexus LM, Toyota C-HR and Toyota Tundra are exclusively offered with hybrid power. Where a model line also includes other powertrain types, we've calculated the percentage of sales the hybrid variants account for. There's also a caveat with other Toyotas that are listed in the table above. All Toyota model lines available with a hybrid powertrain lost their standard petrol-powered variants last year, though evidently there was still some leftover stock of certain petrol-only Toyotas. The Toyota Yaris and Corolla tallies also include the GR Yaris and GR Corolla. Lexus has also discontinued petrol-only versions of models like the ES, due to their high hybrid take-up rates. GM Australia and New Zealand splits out its Chevrolet Corvette delivery figures across separate Stingray, Z06 and E-Ray entries. Lump them all together, however, and just 3.9 per cent of Corvettes delivered in the first half of this year were E-Rays. MORE: Australia's best-selling EVs in the first half of 2025 Content originally sourced from:
7NEWS
07-07-2025
- Automotive
- 7NEWS
Australia's best-selling hybrids halfway through 2025
Toyota is still by far Australia's hybrid vehicle market leader, with just one of its hybrids alone – the RAV4 – outselling the number two and three hybrid auto brands so far this year. Only one other brand cracked five-digit hybrid deliveries in the first half of 2025, according to VFACTS sales data, and that was Hyundai. There are far fewer hybrid vehicles on sale in Australia than electric vehicles (EVs), but hybrids account for a larger share of new-car sales overall. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. A total of 93,746 hybrids (HEVs) were delivered during the first half of 2025, compared with 25,613 plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) and 47,245 EVs. This means that of the total of 624,130 new vehicles delivered in Australia during the first six months of 2025, 15 per cent were hybrids, 7.6 per cent were EVs, and 4.1 per cent were PHEVs. Hybrid sales were up 14.9 per cent compared with the first half of 2024. Brands Below is a chart listing all the brands that sell hybrids in Australia. Note this doesn't include PHEVs or mild-hybrids, though it does include Nissan's e-Power vehicles. Models Below is a chart listing all the hybrid models offered in Australia. A total of eight of the top 10 best-selling hybrids were produced by Toyota Motor Corporation, with the other two being Hyundais. The GWM Tank 500, Honda Accord, Lexus LM, Toyota C-HR and Toyota Tundra are exclusively offered with hybrid power. Where a model line also includes other powertrain types, we've calculated the percentage of sales the hybrid variants account for. There's also a caveat with other Toyotas that are listed in the table above. All Toyota model lines available with a hybrid powertrain lost their standard petrol-powered variants last year, though evidently there was still some leftover stock of certain petrol-only Toyotas. The Toyota Yaris and Corolla tallies also include the GR Yaris and GR Corolla. Lexus has also discontinued petrol-only versions of models like the ES, due to their high hybrid take-up rates. GM Australia and New Zealand splits out its Chevrolet Corvette delivery figures across separate Stingray, Z06 and E-Ray entries. Lump them all together, however, and just 3.9 per cent of Corvettes delivered in the first half of this year were E-Rays.
7NEWS
04-07-2025
- Automotive
- 7NEWS
Mahindra wants to be a top 15 brand in Australia
Mahindra is aiming to be one of Australia's top 15 best-selling brands by the end of the decade as it moves from its traditional workhorse utes to mainstream SUVs – including electric vehicles (EVs). Speaking at the launch of the 2025 Mahindra 3XO SUV – Australia's cheapest SUV – Mahindra head of international operations Sachin Arolkar told media the industrial giant has serious ambitions here. 'We have set an ambitious goal … we want to be a top 15 player by 2030,' Mr Arolkar said. 'Clearly Australia is one of the biggest ute and SUV markets, and Mahindra as a brand is very strong in the ute segment and the SUV segment.' Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. Above: Mahindra BE 6e While it doesn't report its sales figures to VFACTS like most new vehicle brands in Australia, Mahindra said it sold 4185 vehicles here last year. The result puts Mahindra ahead of Mini (3982) and behind Chevrolet (4303) to sit 32nd for the 2024 calendar year. The final brand in the top 15 in 2024 was Mercedes-Benz with 24,831 sales, meaning Mahindra is looking for a six-fold increase in its sales over the next five years. The 2025 XUV 3XO is the first Mahindra to enter the small SUV segment in Australia, which made up almost one-fifth of all new-vehicle sales in 2024. The XUV 3XO (above) joins a lineup of only three models with the Scorpio and XUV 700 large SUVs the only other offerings in local Mahindra showrooms, with no new shipments of the S11 Pik-Up planned as it no longer meets safety standards. The automaker has said it's working towards the new 2026 protocols being introduced by safety authority ANCAP for all models, including the next-generation Pik-Up and yet-to-be-rated XUV 3XO. Mr Arolkar expects the 3XO to become the brand's best-selling model until new products – including the all-new Pik-Up in 2026 – arrive in Australia. The company plans to add at least one product to Australian showrooms every year as it chases its top 15 goal. Above: Mahindra Vision Thar.e concept Its global rebirth has seen it reveal two battery-electric SUVs, the XEV 9e and the BE 6e, in late 2024. Both are on Mahindra Australia's wish-list, although neither are confirmed for local sale. There's also a next-generation version of its Jeep Wrangler -aping Thar SUV – the current generation of which landed Mahindra in court – locked in for Australia, but this is still several years away with exact timing to be confirmed. As the brand enters more segments, Mr Arolkar said the further growth will also come from adding to its dealer count, which is currently around 70 across Australia. 'We plan to have 10 more, 80-plus dealers including service [centres], and that growth is mainly in metro areas,' Mr Arolkar told CarExpert. 'If you look at our journey in this market, which spans over 20 years, it has been very different compared to the other emerging brands. 'We started as a distributor of tractors, and you know the challenges which come with that when you have to prove your product service after sales in the rural outback, which is very important.' 'We have proved, over a period of 20 years, that we have survived the Australian outback, which is one of the more challenging domains. 'Now, with the newer, sophisticated, New Age products coming in, we are taking our experience from the regional areas, now getting into the metros, and that's what differentiates our brand compared to the other emerging brands.'
