Chinese Byd Shark pickup is a predator that surrounds the global truck market

Detroit – One of the greatest winning pools around the world is circulated as a shark, as a Chinese Automobile Car world It extends with a pickup truck at its disposal and the portfolio of products.

Without the Vehicle Brand Hat, the Byd Shark could pass as an American product. In many ways, the collection looks smaller Ford motor. The Chinese truck has similar external similar to Ford Explorer, Ford Brand has been the largest US Ford brand for 48 years.

Likes a lot Byd’s Seagull – It’s a small hatchback that starts 69,800 yuan (or less than $ 10,000). Warren Buffett-Prooting byd could be flooded to their markets, reducing homemade production and vehicle prices to harmful to their own car industry.

Byd has not announced the shark for sale in the US, but has entered countries General MotorsFord and Toyota motor Sell ​​pick-up trucks, including Australia, Brazil and Mexico.

In the US, the receipt trucks are bread and butter vehicles in Detroit, combining millions of millions of sales per year. They are becoming increasingly important for Toyota worldwide.

“If you think it’s important, it’s a franchise,” said Terry Woychowski, President Caresoft Global was the main engineer in the entire GM truck. “This vehicle has been a great interest for the market.”

Caresoft, engineering reference and consulting firm, has fallen and 40 China built 40 China has studied the Likes of BYD, Io And others.

Michigan-based company examines all parts of a vehicle, from the bolts and mud in the case of seats, motorbikes, and battery. Then its customers – automotive automobiles and suppliers can improve efficiency and reduce costs in products.

“It’s a great product. It is well sold. They are trying to sell in the high volume in Mexico, but also localized in Thailand,” said Ford Ceo Jim Farleyk Asked by CNBC About the BYD Shark in a month. “If we want to be a global collection, we need to compete now.”

While Ford’s F-150 is the highest in the US, Toyota’s Hilx has been a truck that sells outside North America for many years. Toyota has sold 19.8 million Hilux trucks in 1968, including a record of 851,000 units in 2022.

When he asked about Chinese competitors in Chinese, President Akio Toyoda Toyota said the company must be ready to meet the global needs of global markets, “despite competition.

“We try to focus on each market and try to be the best in the village. So it will be our strategy,” said Toyoda During a media table At CES Tech Conference.

Bulk exported More than 10,000 sharks by 10,000. These sales are expected to advance, especially as the company prepares for expanding production.

BYD exports its vehicles exports less than 2%, or 56,000 units, from 2022 to 8% in 2024, or 350,500 units, according to BOFA securities.

Exporting has helped increase sales on 4.3 million vehicles in 2012 in 2024, approximately 3 million years earlier. Wall Street analysts hope to continue to grow around 5.5 million this year this year, according to Goldman Sachsen.

“It starts with products with BYD products (very competitive, innovative). He said on January 14 in an investor note.

Byd Shark is expected to help cars grow sales and gains. Amsinsize is a pickup truck. The US has a smaller market worldwide – the components of the electric vehicle, including hybrid hybrid powertrain combining batteries and electric motor combines with a small 4.5-liter combustion engine.

The vehicle can function as an electric vehicle or can have engine power with more than 500 kilometers between batteries and electric motors, battery and engine, by byd.

Shark It starts About 899,980 peso ($ 44,000) in Mexico. It is much more than other models in BYD, but they are much cheaper than many hybrid or electric trucks in the US.

Byd shark to tour the private property, mixed with michigan’s smooth and broken flooring, the pickup truck drives well. His acceleration is fast but not as fast Tesla Cybertruck or All electrical collection of GM. It is quiet, but there is certainly a place for improvements to the route and manipulation, which feels a little refined than the current US truck

The overall quality of the shark is impressive, but there are strange elements of the vehicle, as well as the best “shared” practices with current collections by Ford and GM, according to Woychowski.

Some popular practices and elements tend to be similar to the general external design f-150, including its lighting and pull tailgate step; The previous interior design resembles toyota; And some other aspects of other trucks of the vehicle. Especially its frame – the backbone of the vehicle – wet wax. That is according to Woychowski, the process of reducing the corrosion of GM.

“How the benchmarks are and to whom you can tell,” Woychowskik said he was inspecting under the vehicle. “Ford Back here, under GM and Toyota there.”

That doesn’t mean the vehicle is not the only one. Caresoft needs to make the sharks down, better understanding construction processes and parts, the interior design of the vehicle and is especially not offered by its hybrid powertrain in the US.

For example, some battery technology are placed under the back seat, eliminating storage space, and the bungee cables are folded to sit the back bank of the vehicle when it is folded.

“That’s very wrong,” Woychowskik said about the back seat. “I’d see this space. I will bet this pretty nice to fix this.”

Other unusual elements that are not excessive controlled rear suspension with double check arms (instead of each); significantly correct frame; Lifting unnecessary lifts under the vehicle; And using hydraulic arms, he woke up.

Woychowski said that customers have taken special interest in Chinese cars, Bettery, growth and quick to develop new products and improve existing models.

“It’s a credible truck,” Woychowskik said about the shark. “Some things they did very well. There are some things that I can do to clean, but it’s not hard work.”

– CNBC Michael Bloom helped this report.