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Might help the USA with protecting their domestic market, but you have to wonder how they will compete globally unless they can match price and features.

I just ordered a BYD Sealion 6 Premium. For my use case it's prefect. The wife will use it as a commuter vehicle with 60km round trip to work. Will do that on battery. Weekends for longer trips it will get between 1.5 and 5 L/100KM.

Estimated ownership cost is 60% of a CX5 max sport 2.5. A chunk of that is the soon to end FBT exemption. But even without that it still wins on price.

And that isn't even looking at the features you get, which is plenty.

Only downside is the unknown ownership experience. Our local Mazda dealer is great and I will miss him

No real thoughts on data harvesting as all the manufacturers do it now. And monitoring my wife's antics in a car will give them some amusement.

My actual biggest concern is my daughter who has just gotten her learners. So many drivers aids in the BYD that I wonder what sort of driver it will produce. Might teach her to drive in the AU XR8 Manual ute or the BA