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Omoda 7: Everything you need to know If there's any car that signals the arrival of the Chinese car industry as a force to be reckoned with in the UK, it's the  Jaecoo 7 . More than 26,000 were sold here in 2025, making it one of the most popular new cars on sale. It even outsold the Nissan Qashqai at points. So now that it has a corporate sibling in the form of the Omoda 7, rivals ought to be worried.  The Omoda version of the 7 is much...

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