BYD Shark vs Ford Maverick Hybrid AWD
BYD Shark 2025 Review
The BYD Shark six, is way superior to the Ford Ranger, Toyota Hilux and Isuzu D-max, in sheer value
It is far more powerful, cheapest to operate, has the most features and yet, has the lowest price here!
The BYD Shark pick-up has been politically blocked, from launching in the US and Canada.
But it has all but landed, on Australian shores, at an insane price of fifty-eight thousand aussie dollars.
That is under, thirty six thousand US dollars for a four hundred plus horsepower behemoth of a ute.
Today, the legacy brands like Ford, sell their two-zero-seven hp, Ranger ute, for sixty-four grand.
Ford's lame attempt at hybridizing the Ranger will also be available next year, but, for eighty grand.
Toyota also offers the S.R. 5 variant, of its terrorist-carrier, the Hilux, at sixty-two point five thousand.
Isuzu will sell you the LS-U variant of the D-max for the 61 grand, but with only one-ninety hp.
But none of them comes close to the Shark, in terms of outright acceleration as well as passing power.
Don't waste five-six years of your thirty-year driving life stuck with an underpowered diesel ute mates.
The availability of service stations and the long-standing track record for reliability does matter though
BYD has only twenty seven dealerships across Australia while the other three have 200 to 300 of them
But if one of those twenty-seven BYD dealerships is close enough to you, definitely get a Shark.
Firstly, it will save you at least six-thousand dollars over five years in fuel cost, versus a diesel Ute
Secondly, you can charge right at home giving you a genuine eighty kilometers of pure-electric range.
That is more than enough, for 90 percent of ute driver's daily usage on 90 percent of days each year.
The Shark also has the most spacious rear seats and the largest pick-up box versus the 3 diesel utes.
When it comes to features, the traditional diesel utes are simply shameful, in front of the BYD Shark.
Check out the pinned comment for a detailed comparison of features and variants of these four utes.
There is one big risk, that must be acknowledged, which is the Shark rapidly losing its residual value.
This might happen in spite of BYD offering great reliability, service support and warranty on the Shark
And the simple reason might be BYD, or some other Chinese brand introducing a far better hybrid ute.
Today a 5-year old, twin-cab Ranger or a Hilux, have a resale value between 20 to twenty five grand.
Even if the Shark holds 15,000 dollars of value after 5 years, you'll still save money over a diesel ute.
The only caveat that legacy media has been able to find with the Shark, is its towing capacity.
This is only the first of BYD's ute line-up, that is starting the onslaught, with the Shark-six model.
However the sole-distributor of BYD vehicles in Australia, eevee-direct says more utes are on the way.
The first model, the Shark-6 is expected to be followed by a beefier, Shark-7 with 3.5 ton towing cap.
The legacy brands, are not expected to bring in plug-in hybrid utes anytime soon.
So don't hold your breath!
Length (mm): Shark - 5457, Ranger - 5370, Hilux - 5325, D-max - 5280
5-year charging cost: 4,500 AUD
5-year Diesel Cost: 11,000 AUD
Average running per year Australia: 12,000 km
Real World Efficiency: Hilux/D-Max - 11 kpl
Diesel prices in Australia: 2 AUD per lit
Electricity cost in Australia: 0.03 AUD per kWh
Shark's price in Australia in USD: 40,250 USD (60,000 AUD)
Dealerships Australia: Ford - 193, Toyota - 290, Isuzu - 160, BYD - 27
BYD Shark vs Ford Maverick Hybrid AWD:
BYD's much hyped Shark pick-up is nothing great, which becomes clear, when you compare it to something as cheap as the Ford Maverick Hybrid. Shark was just launched in Mexico at forty-seven-thousand US Dollars, which is three thousand dollars more expensive than the Maverick hybrid already on sale in Mexico. The Shark is about to be launched in Australia next, at an expected price of sixty-five-thousand Australian dollars. But there it will have to compete with the upcoming Ranger Hybrid, which is bound to be much cheaper. In the US, the twenty-twenty-five Maverick Hybrid all-wheel drive, is priced at thirty-one thousand dollars, while the BYD could have retailed for a couple of thousand more, if not for the democrat's protectionist policies. The BYD is just two-hundred and thirty nine hp more powerful, has a six inch longer and wider loading bay and has just twenty-nine kilo-watt-hour bigger battery, giving it hundred kilometer pure-EV-range, while the Maverick gets zero kilometers. So American consumers aren't really missing out much, right? Wait a minute! Is the Maverick under-specced & over-priced?
Top-3 bestselling utes in Australia - #1. Ford Ranger, #2. Toyota Hilux, #3. Isuzu D-Max
