{"id":648388,"date":"2026-05-04T05:38:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/648388\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T05:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:38:23","slug":"geely-is-ready-to-rival-byd-shark-6-with-its-first-australian-ute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/648388\/","title":{"rendered":"Geely is ready to rival BYD Shark 6 with its first Australian ute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"authorAvatar_drive-author-avatar__link__gu_AL authorBio_drive-author-bio__name__2dpnL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drive.com.au\/about-drive\/our-journalists\/sam-purcell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/yemx98bfzjyxeawju1d3.webp\" alt=\"Sam Purcell\" height=\"48\" width=\"48\" class=\"image_drive-image__ILpaD authorAvatar_drive-author-avatar__img__ypzC0 bg-gray-200\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sam.purcell\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"width:1.75rem;height:1.75rem\" class=\"followIcons_drive-social__link__gckpV bg-black\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.drive.com.au\/obj\/tx_dpr:2,q:80,rs:auto:16:16:1,style:cGF0aCB7ZmlsbDogI2ZmZmZmZiAhaW1wb3J0YW50fQ==\/driveau\/upload\/cms\/theme\/icons_v3\/Instagram\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Visit Instagram page\" class=\"drive-icon drive-icon-InstagramIcon followIcons_drive-social__icon__M_WIv\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"authorBio_drive-author-bio__description__iZD8v\">Sam Purcell has been writing about cars, four-wheel driving and camping since 2013, and obsessed with anything that goes brum-brum longer than he can remember. Sam joined the team at CarAdvice\/Drive as the off-road Editor in 2018, after cutting his teeth at Unsealed 4X4 and Pat Callinan\u2019s 4X4 Adventures.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nOff-road writer of the Year, Winner &#8211; Sam Purcell<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link_drive-link__external__wrapper__ijyyq authorBio_drive-author-bio__link__h2jd3 link_drive-link__external__float-right___GbOK\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drive.com.au\/about-drive\/our-journalists\/sam-purcell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read more about Sam Purcell<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.drive.com.au\/obj\/tx_dpr:2,q:80,rs:auto:20:20:1,style:cGF0aCB7ZmlsbDogIzI5NjBjNSAhaW1wb3J0YW50fQ==\/driveau\/upload\/cms\/theme\/icons\/LinkIcon\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" alt=\"LinkIcon\" class=\"drive-icon drive-icon-LinkIcon link_drive-link__external__icon__GCw50\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Purcell has been writing about cars, four-wheel driving and camping since 2013, and obsessed with anything that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,65211,313790,88371,7606,69101,5524,17050],"class_list":["post-648388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-geely","tag-geely-ute","tag-horse-powertrain","tag-off-road-4x4","tag-phev","tag-upcomingmodels","tag-ute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}