Price Index

Porsche Cayenne Turbo Electric 612,900 AEDBMW 7 Series 750e 489,000 AEDZeekr 9X 369,900 AEDToyota Land Cruiser VX 329,000 SARLynk & Co 900 255,000 AEDLexus NX 350h 219,500 SARMercedes-Benz GLA 250 195,000 AEDBYD Seal Design 149,900 AEDJetour T2 1.5T 112,000 SARPorsche Cayenne Turbo Electric 612,900 AEDBMW 7 Series 750e 489,000 AEDZeekr 9X 369,900 AEDToyota Land Cruiser VX 329,000 SARLynk & Co 900 255,000 AEDLexus NX 350h 219,500 SARMercedes-Benz GLA 250 195,000 AEDBYD Seal Design 149,900 AEDJetour T2 1.5T 112,000 SAR

Thursday 1 October 2026 — 19 Rabi al-Thani 1448العربية

Last updated 09:42 Gulf time
Dubai desk

Breaking08:30BYD sales rise 17% in September as exports more than double

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Manufacturing

Everything the Gulf Auto newsroom has published under “Manufacturing” — reports, analysis and data tables, newest first.

10 stories

15:50

A Chevrolet Bolt electric car

GM cuts planned Chevrolet Bolt production as US demand resets

About 35,000 units of the latest Bolt are now expected, far below earlier projections, after federal incentives came to an end.

29 September · 5 min read · 187K views

11:05

A Renault Mégane electric car

Renault to invest €600 million in Spain and add electric production

The investment through 2030 covers five new models and a battery assembly line at the Valladolid and Palencia plants.

24 September · 5 min read · 184K views

07:45

Desert terrain at AlUla in Saudi Arabia

Data & Rankings

The Gulf car market in 2030: a model with three scenarios

1.74 million units in the base case, with the distance between the high and low cases equal to the Kuwaiti and Qatari markets combined. This report sets out the Gulf Auto model to 2030 with its assumptions in full.

24 September · 11 min read · 167K views

14:00

A Chery Tiggo 8 sports utility vehicle

The Middle East rises to third place in Chery’s export markets

Chery exported 21,123 vehicles to the Middle East in July, BYD 13,164 and Geely 7,148, making the region the standout growth point in Chinese car exports.

11 September · 5 min read · 99.3K views

12:40

The Riyadh skyline at night

BYD lifts its Saudi network to ten showrooms

Two new openings in Riyadh and Qassim take BYD’s network in the Kingdom to ten showrooms, having started with just three.

19 August · 4 min read · 217K views

07:40

An industrial and port area in Dubai

The Gulf automotive manufacturing map: where cars are actually built

Just six per cent of cars sold in the Gulf are assembled or built inside it. This report reads the region’s industrial map as it stands: what has actually been built, what has been announced and not built, and what separates assembly from manufacturing.

14 July · 12 min read · 121K views

10:15

The Abu Dhabi skyline from the Corniche

Li Auto enters the UAE and Saudi Arabia through Al Fahim and Naghi

The Chinese company has signed distribution agreements for its L Series range in the two Gulf markets, its first expansion outside China.

29 April · 4 min read · 112K views

08:05

King Abdullah Port at King Abdullah Economic City

Saudi localisation: from 2,000 cars to 340,000 — reading the path

Saudi Arabia has announced a localisation programme targeting 340,000 vehicles a year by 2030. This report breaks the path into its stages and measures the gap between the announced schedule and what the history of greenfield projects says.

5 November · 11 min read · 184K views

07:55

A BMW Group production facility in Germany

Where does every dirham in your car’s price go?

Of every 120,000 dirhams you pay for a new car, only nine thousand reach the dealer. This report breaks the retail price into its seven lines and explains why Chinese competition works on one of them and not the others.

4 June · 10 min read · 220K views

09:15

A BMW Group production facility in Germany

Inside the plant: how a car is built in 18 labour hours

Four shops, nine hundred robots, ten coats of paint and fewer than nineteen hours of human work. A detailed anatomy of what happens between a coil of steel and the car standing in the showroom — and why that sequence explains price differences between one country of origin and another.

19 March · 11 min read · 234K views