Chinese cars in the UAE: what do the listings say about them?

Jetour, Rox, Geely and BYD are now familiar names on UAE roads, and a few other Chinese badges still need looking up. The obvious question about them is a plain one. Is a Chinese car a sensible buy, or will it be worth very little when you come to sell it?

The listings answer part of that. They show how many cars of each brand are on the market, how old those cars are and, for the brands with enough history, how much asking prices fall with each year of age. They do not show how a gearbox behaves after the warranty runs out, or how long a dealer takes to get a part from China. We point out where the data stops as we go.

Which Chinese brands have the most cars for sale

These are the Chinese brands covered by our factsheet for 7 October 2026 (active Dubizzle listings), sorted by the number of cars for sale. Tank, Great Wall’s off-road brand, is also in our index but is not covered by the figures below. The last column is the typical share of asking price a brand’s cars lose for each extra year of age, where we could measure it.

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A median age of 0 years means at least half of that brand’s listed cars carry the current model year or a newer one¹¹. Those are mostly cars that are new or close to it.

Most of the right-hand column says n/a, and that is the main finding of this article. For most Chinese brands sold in the UAE, the used market is too young to show a value curve. Only MG³, Jetour⁶ and Geely¹⁵ have one.

MG is the biggest Chinese name on the used market

MG has 574 active listings¹, more than BYD⁷ and Rox¹⁰ put together. The badge is British by origin and has belonged to SAIC, the Shanghai state carmaker, for a long time now, and in the UAE it sells mostly affordable saloons and crossovers.

Its listed cars are also older than those of most Chinese brands. The median MG on Dubizzle is 2 years old², against 1 year for Jetour⁵, BYD⁸ and Geely¹⁴. Of the brands in the table, only JAC is older, at 3 years²⁰.

That depth is useful for a buyer. MG is the Chinese brand where you have the widest choice of used cars, and its value figure, 11.2% lost per year of age³, comes from the brand with the largest used stock in the table¹. The model pages with the most listings are the MG5 saloon and the ZS crossover, followed by the GT, RX5, RX8, MG3, HS and One. Each page shows median asking prices by model year, which is where you check the year you are looking at.

Jetour and the rest of the Chery family

Jetour comes second with 333 listings⁴. It is a brand of Chery, which also sells Exeed, Jaecoo and Omoda in the UAE under their own names. Counted brand by brand, Chery itself looks small at 79 listings²⁵. Its cars are spread across Jetour⁴, Exeed²⁸, Jaecoo⁴⁶ and Omoda⁵² as well.

This is worth knowing when you think about after-sales. Several badges in the table lead back to one parent company, so parts and engineering are often shared. Whether the service centres are shared depends on who imports each brand into the UAE, and that is a question for the dealer before you sign, not something the listings can tell you.

Jetour’s listings are mostly SUVs. The T2, a square-edged off-roader style SUV, is the most listed Jetour model, followed by the Dashing and the X70 Plus. The brand loses 11.8% of asking price per year of age⁶, the highest of the three measured brands, though not by much: MG is at 11.2%³ and Geely at 10.4%¹⁵.

Geely, the third brand with a measured curve

Geely has 229 listings¹³ with a median age of 1 year¹⁴, and the lowest measured loss of the group at 10.4% per year of age¹⁵. The Coolray and the Emgrand saloon are its most listed models. Geely also owns Zeekr and Lynk & Co, both still small on Dubizzle, with 39⁴⁰ and 11⁴⁹ listings.

The gap between Geely¹⁵ and Jetour⁶ is small enough that it should not decide a purchase on its own. A single facelift, or a price cut on new cars in one model year, could move either figure. Treat the three measured brands as roughly comparable and look at the model-level data on each page.

Plenty of cars, no curve yet: BYD, Changan, JAC and GAC

BYD has 311 active listings⁷, close to Jetour⁴, yet we cannot give it a value figure⁹. Our method needs 100+ listings and 3 model years⁹: a brand needs enough cars, and at least one of its models needs enough GCC-spec listings in each of several model years to draw a line through. BYD passes the first test. None of its models passes the second yet. Its most listed models are the Leopard 5, the Leopard Titanium 7 and the Leopard 8, with the Song Plus and the Qin Plus behind them. None of them has enough model years of GCC-spec listings behind it yet.

Changan¹⁸, JAC²¹ and GAC²⁴ are in the same position. Each has well over a hundred listings^16,19,22, but no single model with enough depth across model years.

JAC is the odd case. Its listed cars are the oldest of any Chinese brand, with a median age of 3 years²⁰, so the history exists. It is spread thinly across several models such as the S3 and the J7, and only GCC-spec cars count toward price figures, so no single model gives a clean line.

For GAC, the GS8 seven-seater and the smaller GS3 are the models with the most listings. For Changan, it is the X5 Plus.

The newest brands: Rox, Changan, Chery, DongFeng and Jaecoo

Five brands in the table have a median listed age of 0 years: Rox¹¹, Changan¹⁷, Chery²⁶, DongFeng³⁸ and Jaecoo⁴⁷. At least half of what they have on Dubizzle is current model year or newer.

Rox is the biggest of these, with 242 listings¹⁰. The Rox 01, a large range-extender SUV, is the single most listed Chinese model in our index. The brand’s other main model is the Adamas pickup. A market where almost every car is this year’s means one thing for you as a buyer: nobody, us included, has seen what these cars are worth once they are several years old in the UAE. Any resale number you hear is a forecast.

Our count does not separate dealers from private sellers. Some of these near-new listings are dealer stock or cars registered once and resold quickly, and their asking prices behave more like new-car prices than used ones.

The smaller names

Haval³¹, BAIC³⁴, DongFeng³⁷, Zeekr⁴⁰, Hongqi⁴³, Jaecoo⁴⁶ and Lynk & Co⁴⁹ each have fewer than 60 listings. Omoda has only 5⁵², too few for even a median age⁵³. At that scale a few dealers relisting their stock can change the count from one week to the next, so read these rows as “present on the market”, not as a ranking.

Hongqi is FAW’s luxury brand. Its median listed car is 2 years old⁴⁴, which is older than most, but 36 listings⁴³ is not enough to say anything about value.

How fast the measured brands lose value

The figures for MG³, Jetour⁶ and Geely¹⁵ come from the same method we use on every brand page. For each model, we take the median asking price of GCC-spec cars in each model year, fit a line through those medians and turn the slope into a percentage lost per year of age. The brand figure is the median across its models.

This is a snapshot across model years taken on one day, not one car followed over time. It mixes age with mileage, trims and facelifts. If a newer model year launched at a higher new price, the older years look cheaper than pure ageing would make them, and the brand’s figure goes up.

We are not putting a Toyota, Nissan or Hyundai number next to these, because those brands are not in this factsheet. The brand pages show the same measure for every brand with enough listings, so you can open Toyota, Nissan or Hyundai and compare for yourself.

What the listings cannot tell you

• Sale prices. Every price here is an asking price. A listing that disappears is not necessarily sold, and the final price is often lower.
• Reliability after warranty. Most of these cars have not reached the end of their warranty yet, so the listings say nothing about gearbox or battery problems later in life.
• Parts and service. Waiting times for parts and the quality of dealer workshops vary by importer and by emirate, and do not show up in a listing.
• Warranty transfer. Some brands advertise long warranties with conditions attached. Check with the dealer whether the warranty stays with the car when you buy it used.

What this means if you are buying

The rule we would use: if the brand has a measured value curve (MG, Jetour or Geely), plan your resale from it and check the model page for the exact year. If the brand shows n/a, treat resale as unknown, buy only a car you are ready to keep until its warranty ends, and negotiate the price as if resale will be weak.

In practice:

1. Open the model page, for example Jetour T2, and look at the median asking price for the model year you are offered. If the car is priced well above it, ask why.
2. Open the running-costs page for the model. Depreciation, insurance, servicing and fuel together tell you more than the sticker price.
3. Put it side by side with a Japanese or Korean alternative in compare, for example a Toyota RAV4 against the T2.
4. Check a specific asking price on the Check a seller’s price page, or set your ceiling first with the budget tool.

The Chinese cars page keeps this brand table up to date and sets it next to the median of the Japanese brands. Deals shows dealer listings priced well below the median of comparable cars, if you want to see what a low asking price looks like in practice.

How we measured

All figures come from active Dubizzle listings in the Cars Oracle index on 7 October 2026. A brand counts as Chinese when our brand origin table marks it so. Tank is marked Chinese in that table but is missing from this factsheet’s brand list, so it has no row above and none of the statements about the table cover it.

• Active listings are the cars listed for sale on that date, all regional specs included, within our price filter. Sample sizes per brand run from 574 for MG¹ down to 5 for Omoda⁵².
• Median age is the current year minus the model year, taken across all of a brand’s active listings. Omoda’s is n/a because it has fewer than 10 listings⁵³.
• Value lost per year of age uses GCC-spec cars only. It is published when a brand has 100+ listings and 3 model years⁹, and is the median of the per-model slopes. MG has 574 active listings in total³, Jetour 333⁶ and Geely 229¹⁵, but only the GCC-spec cars among them feed the figure.

The full method, including the price filter, is on the methodology page.