2027 Jaecoo J7 Priced for Australia: Plug-In Hybrid From $39,990 Driveaway, New Dual-Motor Summit AWD at $47,990

Image credit: Jaecoo Australia. J7 SHS-P shown; grade and model year not identified.

Jaecoo has reshuffled the J7 for the 2027 model year, and the change most buyers will notice first is the price of the plug-in hybrid. The J7 SHS-P Track is now listed on Jaecoo Australia's website at $39,990 driveaway, the Summit 2WD at $44,990, and there is a new grade above both: a dual-motor Summit AWD at $47,990 driveaway. The petrol J7 shrinks to a single grade, the Ridge AWD, at $39,990 driveaway.

Most of the coverage has called these price cuts, and against what Jaecoo was asking earlier this year they are. But every one of those figures sits on top of an offer with an end date, and Jaecoo has not published what the cars cost afterwards. The new AWD also asks you to give something up for the second motor, and the towing section of the specification sheet is missing the figure most rivals lead with. Here is what the MY27 range actually looks like once you read the footnotes.

Pricing

Grouped by powertrain. All prices are the driveaway figures Jaecoo Australia lists, and each one is tied to an offer described underneath the table.

Read the small print before you plan around those numbers. For all three plug-in hybrids, Jaecoo's footnotes say the driveaway price is for MY27 cars ordered by 31 October 2026 and delivered by 30 November 2026, with no metallic paint or options, at participating dealers while stocks last, and not available to fleet, government, not-for-profit or rental buyers. Jaecoo also notes the actual driveaway price can differ with your location and your state's taxes and CTP.

The petrol Ridge is shown as "now from $39,990, was $42,990", and the $39,990 includes a $3,000 bonus offer for cars purchased and delivered between 1 September and 31 October 2026. So the Ridge's underlying driveaway price has not moved on Jaecoo's own page. The discount is a campaign. (The footnote itself is a little untidy: one line calls it an EOFY bonus on the MY25 Ridge, another on the MY27. Ask your dealer which applies to the car in front of you.)

Three premium paints, Lunar Silver, Carbon Black and Arctic White, cost extra according to the specification sheet. Forest Green is the one that is not marked as premium.

What Changed From MY25

When we last checked Jaecoo's site in June, we listed the J7 SHS Track 2WD at $43,990 and the J7 SHS Summit 2WD at $47,990, and the petrol Ridge AWD at $42,990. On today's offer pricing that is $4,000 off the Track and $3,000 off the Summit 2WD, and the new Summit AWD lands at the price the Summit 2WD used to be.

The petrol range has lost a grade. Jaecoo's petrol J7 page now lists one available grade, the Ridge. The front-wheel drive petrol Track, which we still list at $37,990, is not on it, and it was reported as dropped for MY27. That makes the cheapest J7 on Jaecoo's site $39,990 in either form, petrol or plug-in.

The Track plug-in hybrid may also have lost some equipment along with the price cut. Jaecoo's MY27 specification sheet lists the 360-degree camera as Summit only, and reports say the Track previously had it as standard. The sheet also lists the 50W wireless charger, head-up display, heated and ventilated front seats, power tailgate, panoramic sunroof and Sony audio as Summit items. What the Track keeps is the core safety kit: eight airbags including a front-centre airbag and a driver's knee airbag, autonomous emergency braking, adaptive cruise, lane centring, blind spot detection, rear cross traffic assist and a driver monitoring system, plus front and rear parking sensors and a reversing camera. It runs a 13.2-inch touchscreen where Summit grades get 14.8 inches.

One small change under the floor: the battery is now listed at 18.4kWh lithium iron phosphate. We hold 18.3kWh for the MY25 car.

The Summit AWD: What $3,000 Buys, and What It Costs

The new grade adds a second electric motor on the rear axle. Jaecoo lists the hardware like this: a 1.5-litre turbo petrol engine making 105kW and 215Nm, a front motor of 150kW and 310Nm, and on the AWD only, a rear motor of 113kW and 210Nm, through what Jaecoo calls a dedicated hybrid transmission (listed as 1DHT). Jaecoo's own pages do not print a combined system output. Publishers report 260kW and 490Nm for the AWD and 205kW and 365Nm for the 2WD, and we have not been able to check those against a Jaecoo document yet.

Everything else on the Summit 2WD carries over, which is what makes the comparison clean. Jaecoo's specification sheet puts the two side by side:

So the AWD gives up a fifth of its electric range and uses about 16 per cent more energy per kilometre on the test cycle. For a plug-in hybrid, that is the number that decides how often you visit a petrol station. If your daily driving fits comfortably inside 60 or 70 real-world kilometres, both will probably do it on battery. If you sit near the edge, the 2WD is the one more likely to get you home without starting the engine.

There is one thing the AWD gets back. The gap between tare mass and gross vehicle mass is 416kg on the 2WD and 527kg on the AWD, so on paper the AWD can carry more. Tare mass includes only a small amount of fuel, so your real load allowance for people and luggage will be less than either number once you fill the 60-litre tank. For a family of four with a loaded boot, the 2WD's figure is worth doing the sums on.

Who should pay the $3,000? Buyers who live on gravel, drive to the snow, or just want the extra traction on wet roads. Jaecoo describes the system as continuously monitoring conditions and distributing torque between the front and rear axles. But neither J7 is an off-roader in the usual sense, and the drive modes on the plug-in hybrid are listed as Eco, Normal and Sport. If you mostly drive in town, the cheaper 2WD Summit has the same equipment and more electric range.

Charging and Running Costs

The charging hardware is the same across the range. Jaecoo lists a 6.6kW Type 2 AC input, with 25 to 100 per cent taking about 160 minutes, and a 40kW CCS2 DC input that takes the battery from 30 to 80 per cent in about 20 minutes. DC charging is useful on a long trip if you want to top up the electric range over a coffee. In practice most owners will plug in at home, and on Jaecoo's 160-minute figure an overnight charge is plenty.

The fuel figures are NEDC, which is the Australian test, and it flatters plug-in hybrids because the battery starts full. Treat 1.3 or 1.9L/100km as a figure for comparing cars on the same test, not a figure you will see on a road trip with a flat battery. The fuel tank holds 60 litres and takes 91 RON unleaded.

Tax: nothing to plan around, and no FBT exemption

At these prices luxury car tax does not come into it. For the 2026-27 financial year the threshold for cars that are not fuel-efficient is $80,809, and every J7 sits tens of thousands of dollars below that. The more useful point for novated lease buyers is the fringe benefits tax exemption: as general information, plug-in hybrids stopped qualifying for it for cars first held on or after 1 April 2025. A J7 SHS-P ordered now is a normal car for FBT purposes, and a novated lease on one will not deliver the savings an electric car can. Check your own situation with your lease provider.

Towing: Check Before You Buy

This is the part of the J7 plug-in hybrid that a caravan or boat owner needs to see before anything else. Jaecoo's MY27 specification sheet lists a maximum unbraked towing mass of 750kg and a maximum towball download of 75kg, and it does not print a braked towing capacity at all. For comparison, the braked figures we list for rival plug-in hybrids are 1,500kg for the BYD Sealion 6 Essential, the GWM Haval H6 Ultra PHEV AWD and the Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross PHEV ES, and 1,600kg for Jaecoo's own J8 SHS Summit AWD.

The new rear motor does not change what the sheet says: there is one towing column, and it applies to both drivetrains. So until Jaecoo publishes a braked figure, plan on the J7 SHS-P as a car for a box trailer or a bike rack, and get any higher figure in writing from a dealer before you order. If you do tow, our TowingSorted planner will help you work through the numbers for a particular car and trailer.

The petrol Ridge is the better J7 for towing on the figures we hold: we list 1,350kg braked for the MY25 Ridge, and that figure has not yet been checked against an MY27 document. It also has a full-size spare wheel on Jaecoo's grade list, where the plug-in hybrid carries a temporary tyre repair kit. For anyone who drives long distances in the country, that difference matters more than it looks.

Safety Rating

ANCAP's record for the Jaecoo J7 is a five-star rating with a 2025 datestamp, and ANCAP states that it applies to all PHEV variants and that petrol variants are unrated. Its scores are 81 per cent for adult occupant protection, 85 per cent for child occupants, 80 per cent for vulnerable road users and 84 per cent for safety assist, and the rating expires in December 2031. The record was published in May 2025, before the dual-motor Summit AWD existed, and it does not mention that variant by name, so if the rating matters to your purchase (it does for many fleet buyers), ask for it to be confirmed for the AWD.

How It Stacks Up

The MY27 J7 is not in the comparison below yet. What is in it are the plug-in hybrid SUVs a J7 buyer is most likely to be looking at, including three with all-wheel drive. Pick any two.

The obvious price rival for the Track is the BYD Sealion 6 Essential, which we list at $42,990 before on-road costs, with 92km of NEDC electric range and front-wheel drive. The J7 Track's $39,990 is a driveaway figure, so on today's offer the Jaecoo is the cheaper car by more than the headline gap suggests. The Sealion 6 tows 1,500kg on our figures, and that is the trade.

Against the new Summit AWD, the comparisons get more interesting. The GWM Haval H6 Ultra PHEV AWD lists 268kW and 100km of NEDC electric range on our figures. The BYD Sealion 6 Premium, all-wheel drive on our figures, lists 238kW and 81km NEDC. The Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross PHEV ES is all-wheel drive with a much smaller battery and 55km of electric range. On paper the J7 Summit AWD's 80km sits in the middle of that group, and its 1,923kg tare mass is lighter than the 1,946kg we list for the Haval.

One more to know about: the Chery Tiggo 7 Super Hybrid comes from the same company. Chery Australia lists it with a 1.5-litre turbo petrol engine and a 150kW/310Nm electric motor, the same motor rating Jaecoo gives the J7's front motor. If you like the J7 SHS-P but not its styling or its price, it is worth a look, though the versions we list are front-wheel drive.

What Jaecoo Has Not Told Us Yet

• What the cars cost after 31 October. Every plug-in hybrid price on Jaecoo's site is an offer with an order and delivery deadline, and the Ridge price includes a $3,000 bonus.
• A braked towing capacity for the J7 SHS-P. The MY27 sheet prints unbraked only.
• Combined system outputs. Jaecoo lists engine and motor outputs separately. The 205kW and 260kW totals are reported figures.
• WLTP electric range. Jaecoo quotes NEDC, which reads higher than WLTP.
• An MY27 specification sheet for the petrol Ridge. Its page lists 137kW, 275Nm and 7.8L/100km with a seven-speed dual-clutch, but we could not find a downloadable sheet.

On timing, publishers reported the Ridge and Summit arriving in September and the Track in October. Jaecoo's own page now marks the Track 2WD as "Available now".

What This Means for Buyers

If you want a plug-in hybrid mid-size SUV for around $40,000 driveaway and you do not tow, the Track SHS-P is now very hard to ignore, as long as you can live without the 360-degree camera and you order before the end of October. If you want the camera, the heated and ventilated seats and the head-up display, the Summit 2WD is $5,000 more and keeps the full 100km NEDC range.

Pay the extra $3,000 for the Summit AWD if traction is the point, and accept 80km of NEDC electric range for it. Do not buy either one to tow a caravan until Jaecoo publishes a braked towing figure that says you can. And if you are buying on a novated lease, remember that a plug-in hybrid first held now does not get the FBT exemption, so price the J7 against an electric car too. The comparison tool will line any two up for you.

We will add the MY27 J7 range to the CarSorted directory with full specifications from Jaecoo Australia's documents.