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Among the 61 BYD Auto entries in the MotorJury library, the BYD Song Max holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2017. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the BYD Song Max properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Tesla Tesla Model 3, the Chevrolet Chevrolet Bolt, the Ford Ford Escort — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the BYD Song Max reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1.5 L BYD476ZQB Inline 4 / I4 Turbocharger / turbo (2017–2021) / Petrol engine / Petrol plug-in hybrid: / 1.5 L BYD472QA/BYD476ZQB I4 (DM, 2019–2022) / 1.; quoted output is Petrol: / 152 - (2017–2022) / PHEV: / 299 - (2019–2021) / 286 - (2022–2024) / EV: / 161 hp (Song Max EV/M6 Standard range) / 201 hp (M6 Extended range); kerb weight is recorded at 1800-1915 kg (M6); drive goes through 6-speed Manual transmission / manual / 6-speed Dual clutch transmission / DCT / E-CVT (DM-i) / 1-speed Automatic transmission (BEV); the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive / Front-engine, front-wheel drive layout / Front-engine, front-motor, front-wheel drive (DM-i) / Front-motor, front-wheel-drive (EV). Worked together, those figures give roughly 84 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within BYD Auto's own catalogue the BYD Song Max sits alongside the BYD 8TT, the BYD Atto 2, the BYD Atto 3, the BYD D1. The record names the BYD M6 (2010) as its predecessor and the sp = uk as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Under the lead of Wolfgang Egger. Assembly is recorded at China: Changsha, Hunan (Song Max); Shenzhen, Guangdong (M6 / eMax 7) / Indonesia: Subang Regency / Subang, West Java (BYD Auto#Outside China / BYD Auto Indonesia, 2026–present).
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