The Israeli automotive market has been showing strong growth since the beginning of 2023, due to an increase in deliveries of cars. According to a report by the Automobile Importers Association published on March 2, 29,132 new vehicles were delivered to Israel in February 2023, up 15.2% as compared to February 2022...
Knowledge of the past and its analysis help to look confidently into the future. Even though the Israeli automotive market ended 2022 with a 7.8% drop in new car shipments, the share of electric vehicles in total sales exceeded 10% for the first time. We hope that this positive trend will continue in 2023. Rememberin...
We are very happy to share good news: the Israeli automotive market recovered in 2021. It grew quite rapidly, especially in the 2nd quarter. During the same period of COVID 2020, sales were too low, which can be compared to a pause in the trend of the past decade, when the market demonstrated an increase. The pea...
Let’s summarize the results of 2022: for 11 months (from the beginning of January to the end of November), around 257,000 new cars were sold in Israel, which is 9.8% less than last year. For comparison, for the same period in 2021, around 285,000 new cars were sold. At the same time, this November has prove...
The Israeli automotive market ended 2022 with a 7.8% drop in new car supply, but the share of electric vehicles exceeded 10% for the first time. We can safely say that electric vehicles and Chinese cars were especially popular in Israel in 2022. According to the Automobile Importers Association, 268,145 new cars wer...
According to the results of 2022, Geely together with its sub-brand Geometry has become Israel’s best-selling electric vehicle brand: the Geely Geometry C was bought by 6,816 Israelis. Moreover, the electric crossover hatchback has become one of the top 10 most popular cars on our market. We love this model for th...
Audi promises lower prices for its SUVs in early March. The promotion called ‘Q DAYS’ will last from March 1 to March 3, 2023. The sale will cover the Q SUV model range, which has big discounts from 12,000 to 28,000 shekels. Therefore, if for some reason you have been putting off buying a new SUV, it is time to tak...
As spring blossoms, Dacia unveils the exciting new Extreme edition, making its appearance across the Dacia Duster crossover, Sandero Stepway hatchback, and Jogger station wagon lineups. The Dacia Spring electric crossover already has its own "extreme" version. Tailored for off-road aficionados, the Extreme editio...
The second generation of the fashionable coupe-like SUV has acquired many new features and technologies that make the new Mercedes-Benz GLC Coupe more convenient and safer for the driver and passengers. The most important innovation is the all-wheel-drive chassis (optional) and off-road driving mode. The steering rea...
The Mazda CX-60 is a two-row mid-size SUV, launched in March 2022, for the European and Japanese markets. Mazda classifies the new CX-60 as a premium model. It is known that the SUV has become the first representative of the family of large models (Large Product Group) of the Japanese manufacturer, which will receiv...
Israel already has one representative of the Wey ‘coffee’ family: the Coffee 01, a premium SUV with a plug-in hybrid system with a capacity of 476 hp and an electric driving range of 149 km, priced from 269,900 shekels. In March 2023, the brand introduced another plug-in hybrid, the Wey Lanshan, the new flagshi...
Who makes the cheapest car? The answer is simple: the Jiangnan brand, unknown outside of China. In the 2000s, the company produced almost the cheapest car not only on the local but also on the global market: Alto hatchback, based on the Suzuki Alto. But Jiangnan did not stop there, presenting in February 2023 on...
Letin is the new name of the Chinese automaker Levdeo, founded in 2008. Levdeo produced the simplest and cheapest electric cars weighing up to 1,400 kg, which developed no more than 40 km/h and belonged to a privileged category of transport, invented in the USA and which became popular in China. But after changing th...
Shenzhen BYD New Energy Co., Ltd., a Chinese enterprise, produces luxury electric vehicles under the Denza brand. The company was founded by the automaker BYD and Daimler AG. However, in 2021, the German co-founder reduced its stake in the joint venture, making the ‘child’ of BYD and Mercedes-Benz a full-fledge...
We are looking forward to seeing the new flagship SUV from Lexus in Israel, the luxurious and large Lexus LX 600. Keep in mind, the ‘600’ index in the SUV’s name does not mean that it will have a 6-liter engine. In fact, the new generation body-on-frame SUV is equipped with a much more modest 3.4-liter engine...
