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Chery
Chery Tiggo 8
The seven-seat SUV a family can actually afford: new-unit warranty, a cabin that reads premium, and dealer support in most of these markets now.
7 · Front-wheel drive · 1,598 cc
South America · Ecuador
The best Chinese cars to import into Ecuador
This is the answer we give when a buyer asks the question in one line: which Chinese cars are actually worth importing into Ecuador. Each pick below is quoted with its own landed-cost calculation for this market, from the duty band its engine falls into to the port where it clears.
The five we would put on the water
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Changan
Changan CS75 Plus
The family SUV with the strongest service footprint in the Gulf and West Africa, and a 1.5 turbo that keeps the duty band down.
5 · Front-wheel drive · 1,499 cc
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BYD
BYD Song Plus DM-i
A plug-in hybrid for buyers who pay for fuel at the pump: roughly 100 km of electric range on the commute and no range anxiety on the inter-city run.
5 · Front-wheel drive · 1,498 cc
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BYD
BYD Atto 3
The EV that settled the price argument: a compact SUV with an LFP battery, dealer service in the Gulf, and a duty bill of 5% of CIF where electrics are favoured.
5 · Front-wheel drive · Electric (EV)
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Geely
Geely Coolray
The small SUV that made Chinese cars normal in Algiers and Riyadh: 1.5 turbo, low duty band, and a cabin that still feels new at five years old.
5 · Front-wheel drive · 1,477 cc
Three of the five are current stock; the other two are sourced to order. Say which one and the year, and the FOB and CIF figures come back the same day.
Checked September 24, 2026
Stock ready for Ecuador
Ecuador
Lexus
Lexus RX 350 2019
- Model Year
- 2019
- Seats
- 5
- Power Type
- Petrol
- Transmission
- 8-speed automatic
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BYD
BYD Song Plus DM-i 2022 110km
- Model Year
- 2022
- Seats
- 5
- Power Type
- Hybrid (HEV)
- Transmission
- E-CVT
Price on Request
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Ecuador
What buyers ask before they choose
- best chinese cars in ecuador
- Chery, JAC and MG sell in volume, with the compact SUVs leading. What closes the sale is the local distributor warranty rather than the FOB price.
- chinese car brands in ecuador
- Chery, JAC, MG, BYD and Changan. A double cab for work, a 1.5 to 2.0 litre SUV for the city, and the duty band that follows the engine in both cases.
- What is the vehicle age limit for importing a car into Ecuador?
- An age limit applies to used vehicles — about 5 years in practice.
- Do Chinese left-hand-drive cars work in Ecuador?
- Ecuador drives on the right, so a left-hand-drive car is the correct vehicle type: the steering wheel is on the side the road requires. Every car we ship is left-hand drive. An age limit applies to used vehicles, about five years in practice, and safeguard and quota measures change by decree. The decree in force at the time of shipment, rather than the headline tariff, is what decides whether a unit is admissible.
South America · Guayaquil
Get a Ecuador landed-cost quote
Send the model, model year and destination port. You get an FOB or CIF price, the document list this market requires, and the next sailing we can load.