Byd isn’t sleeping.
They just announced a wave of upgrades for the Shark 6 ute range. More tech. More off-road grit.
Sajid Hasan, the chief product officer over at Byd Australia, spilled the details. The big news? Google Automotive Services.
But don’t grab your phone just yet. This isn’t Android Auto. It’s not CarPlay. It uses the vehicle’s own embedded SIM to get online.
“Technology side, we didn’t just sat still. The Premium and the Performance will have a new software ecosistem.”
Hasan’s words, basically.
It means Google Assistant works. You log in with your Google account. You download apps directly to the dash. Watch videos if you really want to. It’s a whole other sub-ecosystem living right beside the existing DiLink infotainment. They’re coexisting. Weird? Maybe. Practical? Sure.
Not everyone gets the Google gift. The Shark 6 Dynamic misses out. Makes sense. You have to keep the tiers separated somehow.
But here’s the thing that actually matters when the tires slip.
Crawl Mode.
Already standard on the Performance variant, this off-road helper is now rolling out to the Dynamic and Premium trims too.
Think low-range gearing, but virtual.
The throttle gets less twitchy. Traction control sharpens up at slow speeds. You pair it with Hill Descent Control, and you stop feeling like you’re wrestling a live wire every time the gradient changes.
It even has a tug-of-war feature.
Seriously. You can hook it to another car to yank it out of a ditch. Or just play around in the bush. Byd sees it all coming via an OTA update. Soon.
So yeah.
More screen real estate. Better crawling.
The Shark 6 just got a lot less boring.
Will it actually save your hide in the mud?
