Chery shrugs off Geely surge as Stockman ute, other new models loom

Chery has signalled that its newly established place among Australia's top-selling brands is here to stay, pointing to a coming wave of fresh models — most notably the Stockman pickup — as the means to cement it. The Chinese manufacturer has only recently broken into that upper tier of the market, and its message is that the achievement is a starting point rather than a high-water mark.

The declaration carries extra weight because Geely, another fast-expanding Chinese brand, has been gathering pace in the same market. The two are part of a wider contest between China's largest vehicle exporters, and models launched for one market increasingly reach others within a short window. That makes announcements of this kind a reasonable early indicator