Data through 31 July 2026
Israel vehicle registrations
Every brand registered in Israel, read three ways — against last month, against the same month last year, and across the year to date. Chinese marques are tracked against the legacy brands they are taking share from.
M1 passenger cars, N1 light commercials and taxis. Compiled by Nugentis from the Israeli Vehicle Importers Association’s own registration reports.
Chinese share, year to date
43.4%
88,298 of 203,340 vehicles, up from 28.3% over the same seven months of 2025.
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Showing 1 January – 31 July 2026 against 1 January – 31 July 2025.
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Chinese marques against legacy brands
Thirty Chinese marques appear in this data. The market share line is the single number the rest of the page explains. The classification rule, and the borderline calls, are set out at the bottom of this page.
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12 brands that registered vehicles in 2025 have recorded none so far in 2026 — 8 of them Chinese: BAIC, EVeasy, Forthing, NETA, SERES, SWM, Skywell, WEY.
Brand leaderboard
The fifteen largest brands in the selected period, with the change against the comparison period.
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How Israel is buying its powertrains
Each bar is the whole of its own period, so the blocks compare as shares. The association publishes no powertrain split for prior years, so these three periods are all 2026.
June 2026
32,876 registrations
July 2026
26,481 registrations
January – July 2026
203,340 registrations
Every brand
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Showing all 77 brands.
Method and sources
Every figure here comes from the Israeli Vehicle Importers Association’s published reports and reconciles to them exactly. Nothing is estimated.
Primary source
Association registration reports for 1 January – 31 May, – 30 June and – 31 July 2026, in both the all-brand and the electrified series.
How single months were isolated
All reports are cumulative year to date. July equals the July report minus the June report; June equals the June report minus the May report.
Reconciliation
Every column sums to its printed total, every brand’s powertrain components sum to its row total, no derived month is negative, and no electrified figure exceeds its all-powertrain figure.
What this is not
Registrations are not retail sales. Vehicles registered to importers and dealers appear here before reaching a customer. That gap is tracked separately in the monthly report.
How “Chinese” is defined
A marque counts as Chinese when it is owned by a Chinese group and its vehicles are designed and built in China. Thirty marques qualify in this data set. The judgement calls:
- MG— British marque, owned by SAIC (China) since 2007
- Ora— Great Wall Motor
- SWM— Italian marque, vehicles built by Shineray (China)
- EVeasy— Renault / JMEV joint venture, built in China
- Volvo— Geely-owned but Swedish-built and Swedish-engineered - counted as legacy
- Smart— Geely / Mercedes-Benz joint venture - counted as legacy, consistent with prior reporting
Source: Israeli Vehicle Importers Association (car-importers.org.il). Brand naming follows the association’s own reporting.
This is the surface. The analysis is monthly.
The Hebrew-language Israeli Automotive Intelligence Report goes further — importer-accurate attribution, brand-level scorecards, and the inventory gap between registrations and private sales. Request a sample edition.