2025 BYD Shark: Hybrid ute’s first official undisguised images released

The BYD Shark is nearing its debut connected May 14 (Mexico time), and the institution has present fixed america the clearest look astatine its first-ever ute.

While the institution has antecedently teased the Shark’s front-end design, implicit with C-shaped headlights and a airy barroom supra a grille with salient BYD badging, these images posted connected BYD’s Instagram relationship are our archetypal high-resolution look astatine the undisguised ute.

As we’ve seen successful earlier spy photos, the Shark has a accepted silhouette. There are blacked retired A-, B-, and C-pillars for a floating extortion look, with achromatic integrative besides diagnostic prominently connected the bumpers, sills and instrumentality arch protectors.

The latest societal media station astir the Shark touts the ute’s roadworthy travel abilities, proclaiming its DMO plug-in hybrid drivetrain volition “leave scope anxiousness down and [allow drivers to] savour the travel of exploration”.

Unfortunately BYD didn’t station immoderate images of the Shark’s interior, but earlier unauthorised photos of the compartment bespeak it volition person a centre console-mounted shifter, carnal toggle switches, a free-standing integer instrumentality cluster, and a rotatable infotainment screen.

Reports retired of China suggest the ute volition stock its DMO level with the Bao 5 from the BYD’s Fang Cheng Bao brand, and volition motorboat with a 365kW plug-in hybrid drivetrain featuring a 1.5-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol motor mated to 2 electrical motors.

A afloat electrical mentation is expected to beryllium disposable aboriginal on. Since 2022, BYD has sold lone axenic electrical and plug-in hybrid vehicles.

The Shark volition marque its planetary debut astatine an lawsuit successful Mexico City connected May 14.

While pricing and specifications person yet to beryllium revealed, the Shark volition apt go the brand’s astir costly exemplary successful Australia.

The existent scope tops retired with the Seal sedan, which has a top-spec exemplary priced from $68,798 earlier on-road costs.

It volition beryllium absorbing to spot however the Shark fares against established utes, specified arsenic the Toyota HiLux, Mitsubishi Triton, Nissan Navara, and Ford Ranger, the second of which volition summation a plug-in hybrid variant successful aboriginal 2025.