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Top Gear's big fat guide to every Chinese car you can buy in the UK today

We gather every Chinese motor on sale to see what's what. It's gonna get... complicated

Published: 19 Jun 2025
26 minutes 31 seconds

It's highly likely you'll have seen a few Chinese cars pottering along UK roads. Turns out, China's a Big Deal in the carmaking business, largely because it's churning them out at a relentless rate.

Indeed, Chinese cars are currently the big disruptors in the global automotive market. Last year, China built 27 million cars, of which 750,000 came to Europe.

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And in the last three years alone, Chinese EV imports have gone from three per cent of the European market, to 20. The range on offer is, frankly, mind-bendingly diverse.

So in this video, Top Gear's Tom Ford and Ollie Marriage attempt to navigate the deep waters of Chinese cars available in the UK right now. Which ones are which. Who owns what. And most importantly, which ones are good, and which ones you should definitely avoid...

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