How Much Do You Need to Earn to Afford a Wuling, Forthing, Riddara or Rely in Jamaica?

There is a new showroom at 49A South Camp Road, and it holds four car brands. Wuling, Forthing, Riddara and Rely. Walk in, and you can stand between a plug-in hybrid Multi-Purpose Vehicle(MPV), a range extender(REEV) SUV, an electric pickup, and a diesel work truck, all sold by the same company, all under one roof.

That company is Tyre Warehouse Automotive. You know the name. Your father knows the name. Half the island, no, the entire island knows the name. Thirty-odd years of keeping Jamaican cars on the road, and now they want to sell you the whole car💵.

Their own website makes the argument better than I could. Selling the vehicle, they say, is the same job, a step earlier😏.

Here is the important question you need to ask yourself. Can you actually afford one?

This is the fourth article in this series. The first was How Much Do You Need to Earn to Afford a Jetour in Jamaica?, then Dongfeng through Bert's, then Changan on Old Hope Road. This one is different, and I want to say why before any figures. Jetour is also a Tyre Warehouse brand. So this is not a new dealer at all. It is the same dealer, with four more badges, and that changes what I am able to tell you.

Prices were read off wulingja.com, forthingja.com, riddaraja.com, and relyja.com on November 2, 2026. Salaries come from our own database on the same day. Every salary is a year's pay, before tax, and the year it was reported is in brackets right after it.

Who Is Tyre Warehouse Auto, And Why Does It Matter?

Tyre Warehouse Automotive is the exclusive Jamaican distributor for five brands: Jetour, Wuling, Forthing, Riddara and Rely. Their own site lists 15 models across three showrooms. Jetour has Mannings Hill to itself. South Camp Road and Montego Bay carry the other four.

One group. Five badges. 14 cars with a published price.

Parts, servicing and warranty claims all run through the same group, whichever badge is on the bonnet. So if you have had a good or a bad experience buying a Jetour, you have already had an experience with the people who would sell you a Riddara.

I Did Not Have To Model This One

In the last three articles, I built the monthly payment myself. Changan publishes no finance terms at all, so every monthly figure in that piece was my own model. I said so in the article, because I did not want anybody quoting my calculations as the dealer's offer.

Here, I did not have to. All four of these brands publish a monthly payment right beside the price.

So I did the thing I have been waiting three articles to do. I took the model I built back in the Jetour piece and ran it against all 14 published payments in this group. The model, unchanged: nothing down, 120 months, which is 10 years, at 7.75% a year on the reducing balance. A reducing balance loan is one where interest is charged on what you still owe, so it falls a little every month as the balance comes down.

Of the 14 cars, my model lands exactly on the dealer's own published payment 7 times. On the other 7 it is out by JMD $1,000 or less, and on five of those by JMD $600 or less.

Read that again. Fourteen cars, five brands, two showrooms, one set of terms🤯.

So 7.75% is not my guess anymore. It is TWA's actual lending rate. Where the dealer publishes a payment, I use the dealer's figure in this article, not mine.

This makes the article stand out from the previous ones.

Note Well: this holds for Tyre Warehouse Automotive. It does not make 7.75% a law of nature. When you contact Tyre Warehouse Auto, ask for the term and the rate, as you may not be eligible for that 7.75%.

The 20% Rule

Same rule as the last three. Your monthly car payment should not be more than 20% of your gross monthly pay. Gross means before any deductions.

30% is too high for Jamaica. Check a Jamaican payslip, and you will see why. Off the top comes: PAYE, NIS, NHT, and education tax. What lands in the account is well under the gross. Then the car starts asking: insurance, licensing, fitness, fuel, and a set of tyres after one bad pothole(or two)😐. At 30% there is nothing left for the car's own running costs, never mind the rest of your life(kids, emergencies, hurricanes named Beryl).

*Note Well: the government plans to merge several statutory deductions into a single social contribution line on payslips. When that lands, the gross stays the same and the net moves, so the 20% rule still works.

The calculation: monthly payment x 12, divided by 0.2. Or quicker, because 12 divided by 0.2 is 60, just multiply the monthly payment by 60. A JMD $54,000 payment needs JMD $3,240,000 a year.

Run it the other way for yourself. Take your annual salary and divide by 60. That is your ceiling. Write it in your notes app before you go.

## What Does Each One Actually Cost?

Five models with a published price, cheapest first. The monthly payment here is the dealer's own, off their own website.

CaribSalaries Affordability Calculation for Wuling, Forthing, Riddara and Rely

Two things jump out of that table before a single salary touches it.

The first is the floor: JMD $4,499,000. In this series, the Changan Alsvin holds the "cheapest new car" title at JMD $3,150,000. The Dongfeng Shine GS at JMD $3,699,000 is second, while the Jetour X50 at JMD $3,999,000 is third. So the cheapest of these four brands is the dearest entry price I have written yet, by JMD $500,000🤔.

The second is the two pickups. The Riddara RD6 Econ and the Rely R8 are the same price to the dollar, JMD $6,999,000. One is fully electric while the other is a turbo diesel. That is the most interesting decision on this lot, and it gets its own section below.

Here is the catch in plain figures. The Alvez at JMD $4,499,000 costs you about JMD $6,480,000 by the time the last payment clears. Roughly JMD $1,981,000 of that is interest. The Darion at JMD $7,999,000 costs about JMD $11,520,000 at the end of the loan. You pay roughly JMD $3,521,000 in interest. Ten years is also longer than most people keep a car. Sell at year five, and you still owe, and what you owe may be more than the car is worth.

Who Can Buy The Cheapest One?

The Wuling Alvez requires a salary of JMD $3,240,000 a year, which is JMD $54,000 a month.

What is it? A petrol compact SUV. 105 hp, a CVT gearbox, 625 litres of cargo space, a 10.25 inch touchscreen, an electric sunroof, six colours, and a Level 2 driver assistance suite. Level 2 means the car helps with steering and speed at the same time, so adaptive cruise and lane keeping, but you are still the one driving it.

The median Jamaican salary on this site clears it. Across every role, our median is JMD $3,959,299. 20% of that, monthly, is JMD $65,988, against a JMD $54,000 payment. That is JMD $11,988 a month of daylight.

Now the government scale, and this is tighter than the last article. 84 of the 153 grades clear the Alvez at their bottom notch. A band means your pay depends on how far up it you have climbed, and the scale calls each step a notch. The bottom notch is day one in the grade.

So a little over half the central government scale can buy this car from the moment they are hired. In the Changan article, 118 of the 153 grades cleared the cheapest car on day one. The floor moved up by JMD $1,349,000, and 34 grades fell off the back of it.

And then the figure that stops you. 53 of the 153 grades cannot reach the Alvez at the top notch of their band, after an entire career. A third of the central government scale cannot finance the cheapest car this group sells. Not now, not in twenty years.

Here is one of them, and it is a job that exists because of cars. The Rural Agricultural Development Authority advertised a Driver from JMD $1,181,040 rising to JMD $1,588,912 (2026). Hired at the bottom notch, 20% of monthly pay is JMD $19,684. At the very top of that band, after the whole climb, it is JMD $26,482.

The cheapest car at this dealership requires JMD $54,000 a month. So a driver at RADA, at the top of their band, is JMD $27,518 a month short. They would need to roughly double their pay. There is no model on this page for them, and there was none on the Changan page either😔.

The National Solid Waste Management Authority advertised a Stores Clerk on effectively the same money, JMD $1,181,428 rising to JMD $1,588,889 (2026). Same answer.

Here Is The Figure I Did Not Expect To Find

There is a band on the April 2026 scale running from JMD $2,943,960 to JMD $3,959,299 (2026). It covers 14 grades, including Administrative Manager 4, Foreign Service Officer 1, Librarian 2, Secretary 5, Scientific Officer 4, and Protective Services Officer 7.

Look at the top of that band. JMD $3,959,299.

That is the median Jamaican salary on this site, to the dollar. The site median is JMD $3,959,299. The ceiling of that government band is JMD $3,959,299. The middle of everything Jamaicans have reported to us is the exact same number as the most a Foreign Service Officer 1 or a Librarian 2 can ever be paid in that grade.

I did not arrange that. Our median comes from 2,936 approved reports across every role on the site, and that band comes off a Ministry of Finance sheet. They landed on the same figure.

So what does it buy? At the top notch, 20% monthly is JMD $65,988, and the Alvez is clear by JMD $11,988. At the bottom notch, it is JMD $49,066, and the Alvez is JMD $4,934 out of reach. Same 14 grades, same scale, and the cheapest car at this dealership sits inside the band.

One of them drives a new Alvez. One of them does not. The only difference is how long they have been doing the job.

Who clears it on day one? The lowest grade whose bottom notch gets there is Legal Officer 1, on a band from JMD $3,359,687 to JMD $6,024,541 (2026). 20% monthly at the floor is JMD $55,995, clear by JMD $1,995. One thousand nine hundred and ninety-five dollars, for a lawyer on their first day in the public service.

What Is A Duty Concession Actually Worth?

Two of these cars carry a second, lower price. This is the first time in this series that I have chosen to write about the Duty Concession.

Wuling prints JMD $4,250,000 for the Alvez "with concession". Rely prints JMD $6,650,000 for the R8 as a "concession price", and labels it for government and duty concession buyers.

A duty concession is a reduction in the import duty on a vehicle, granted to certain buyers. In Jamaica, the usual routes are public sector workers with a motor vehicle entitlement, returning residents, and some professional categories. It is not a discount the dealer decided to give you. It is tax the government decided not to collect, and you either qualify or you do not.

Neither concession price carries a published monthly payment, so these two figures are my model, at the same 120 months and 7.75% the dealer uses everywhere else.

On the Alvez, JMD $4,250,000 works out at about JMD $51,000 a month, so the salary needed falls from JMD $3,240,000 to about JMD $3,060,000. The concession is worth about JMD $3,000 a month, or JMD $180,000 a year off your required salary.

On the R8 it is bigger. JMD $6,650,000 is about JMD $79,800 a month against the retail JMD $85,000. The salary needed falls from JMD $5,100,000 to about JMD $4,788,000. That is JMD $5,200 a month, and JMD $312,000 a year off your ceiling.

So what does it actually move? Go back to that 14 grade band, JMD $2,943,960 to JMD $3,959,299 (2026). At retail, the Alvez needs JMD $3,240,000, and the concession version needs about JMD $3,060,000. Both of those sit inside the band. The concession does not put a car in the hands of somebody who had none. It moves the line down by about a notch and a half.

And for plenty of people, it is still not enough. The National Fisheries Authority advertised a Records Officer from JMD $2,190,302 rising to JMD $2,945,713 (2026). At the very top of that band, 20% monthly is JMD $49,095. That is JMD $1,905 short of the Alvez even at the concession price, after a full career in the grade. About JMD $159,000 down would close it.

Note Well: Find out if you qualify for the Concession Price. "Concession price" is not one fixed thing, and the figure on the website is somebody's example. Make them write down what you will pay, with your own paperwork on the desk.

Who Can Buy The Forthing Friday?

The Friday REEV needs JMD $4,320,000 a year, which is JMD $72,000 a month.

Read this bit before the figures, because the badge is doing something unusual and Forthing deserves credit for being plain about it.

REEV stands for Range Extended Electric Vehicle. The Friday carries a 31.94 kWh battery and a 1.5 litre petrol engine, and the petrol engine does not drive the wheels at all. It only generates electricity to feed the electric motor when the battery runs low. So you drive an electric car, and you fill it with petrol when you are nowhere near a plug. Forthing quotes 200 km or more on battery alone, and about 1,150 km combined.

Their website leads with the Jamaican argument for it, and it is a fair one: a power cut does not strand you. Their headline is literally "No Power? No Problem." A home charger is included in the price, which nobody else in this group offers. One trim with all the fancy bells and whistles.

So who reaches it? The National Fisheries Authority advertised a Senior Capture Fisheries Extension Officer from JMD $4,266,270 rising to JMD $5,737,659 (2026). At the floor of that band, 20% monthly is JMD $71,104.

They are JMD $896 a month short of the Friday. Eight hundred and ninety-six dollars. About JMD $75,000 down closes it, which is the clearest case on this page for putting money on the counter.

Hold on to that post, because the top of that same band does something worse further down this article.

And the site median misses this one. JMD $65,988 against JMD $72,000 is JMD $6,012 a month short. So the median Jamaican salary on this site buys the Alvez and stops. One out of five.

On the government scale, 68 of the 153 grades clear the Friday at their bottom notch. The lowest to do it is the band from JMD $4,479,584 to JMD $6,024,541 (2026), which covers 16 grades including Senior Executive Officer 2, Court Administrator 2, Auditor 2 and Foreign Service Officer 3. At the bottom notch, 20% monthly is JMD $74,660, clear by JMD $2,660.

Note Well: the Friday EV and REEV both cost the same JMD $5,999,000.

Two Pickups, One Price: Riddara RD6 Or Rely R8?

This is the choice I would spend the most time on in that showroom.

Both need JMD $5,100,000 a year, which is JMD $85,000 a month. Both cost JMD $6,999,000. Both are dual cab(a type of pickup truck that features four full-sized doors and two rows of seating, comfortably accommodating up to five occupants) 4WD pickups, sold by the same company, parked on the same floor. And they are completely different machines.

The Riddara RD6 Econ is 100% electric. A 73.9 kWh battery, 370 hp, 595 Nm, 425 km of range, 3,000 kg of braked towing, up to 1,050 kg of payload, and a 6.1 m turning circle. Riddara is a pickup brand under Geely, and the RD6 was made as an electric truck from the start rather than a diesel one with the engine taken out.

The Rely R8 is a 2.3 litre turbo diesel with an 8 speed automatic. 120 kW, 420 Nm, 1,000 kg payload, selectable 4WD with low range, seven terrain modes, a 15.6 inch screen and ventilated leather. Rely is a pickup brand under Chery. It comes with five all terrain tyres and a roll bar fitted free.

Now the running costs, because that is where an identical price stops being identical. Riddara publishes consumption from about 17 kWh per 100 km. At the roughly JMD $50 per kWh that Forthing's own fuel calculator assumes for JPS residential power, that is about JMD $850 per 100 km. Forthing's calculator also prices petrol at about JMD $239 a litre, using Petrojam's ex-refinery figure for 28 October 2026 plus a typical retail markup, and assumes a typical SUV burns 9 litres per 100 km. That is about JMD $2,151 per 100 km.

So on the dealer group's own assumptions, the electric pickup runs about JMD $1,301 cheaper per 100 km. Drive 20,000 km a year and that is roughly JMD $260,000 a year, which is most of a monthly payment.

Note Well: Rely publishes no fuel consumption figure for the R8 anywhere on its Jamaican site. Not on the homepage, not on the full specification sheet. So I cannot give you the diesel's real cost per 100 km, and the JMD $2,151 above is a petrol SUV, not this truck. A 2.3 litre diesel in a 4WD pickup will drink more than a car and less per litre of work done. Ask them for the number and do this sum with the real one.

So the honest question is not which is better. It is which problem you have. Fixed route, charge at home or at the yard? The Riddara will cost a fraction to run. Out of reach of a plug, towing long distances, need to refuel in four minutes at any station on the island? The R8 is the one that works. JMD $6,999,000 either way.

Who reaches them? Jamaica Post advertised a Supervisor, Safety and Security at JMD $5,198,035 (2026). 20% of that is JMD $86,634 a month, so they clear either pickup by JMD $1,634. One thousand six hundred and thirty-four dollars. A safety and security supervisor at the post office is the honest buyer of a work pickup at this dealership. Jamaica Post put a Project and Property Manager on the same figure.

The National Fisheries Authority advertised a Director, Farm Management and Production from JMD $5,198,035 rising to JMD $6,990,779 (2026). At the floor they clear by that same JMD $1,634. At the ceiling, 20% monthly is JMD $116,513, and there is real room.

On the government scale, 52 of the 153 grades clear the pickups at their bottom notch. The lowest is the band from JMD $5,457,937 to JMD $7,340,318 (2026), covering 15 grades including Senior Executive Officer 3, Accountant 3, Auditor 3 and Foreign Service Officer 4. At the bottom notch that is JMD $90,966, clear by JMD $5,966.

Same answer as the Dongfeng P22 and the Changan Hunter, then. The honest buyer of a Jamaican work pickup is not a contractor with a yard full of equipment. It is a senior manager or a director at a government agency, or somebody on the equivalent in the private sector.

Who Can Buy The Darion?

The Wuling Darion is the top of this lineup. It needs an annual salary of JMD $5,760,000 a year, which is JMD $96,000 a month.

It is a 7 seat plug-in hybrid MPV. 125 km of pure electric range, more than 1,000 km combined, 30% to 80% on a fast charger in half an hour, walnut brown individual seats and a 12.8 inch screen. The idea is that the school run happens on electricity and the long drive happens on petrol.

A plug-in hybrid is not the same thing as a range extender. In a plug-in hybrid the petrol engine can drive the wheels. In the Forthing's range extender, the engine only recharges the battery. Both let you charge at home and both let you fill up at a station, but they are different machines.

And here is the closest line in the whole article. I checked it three times.

Go back to that National Fisheries Authority Senior Capture Fisheries Extension Officer, on JMD $4,266,270 rising to JMD $5,737,659 (2026). At the floor of that band they were JMD $896 short of the Forthing Friday. Now take them to the very top of it, after a career spent climbing. 20% monthly is JMD $95,628.

They are JMD $372 a month short of the Darion. Three hundred and seventy-two dollars. That is less than one tank of petrol a year. About JMD $31,000 down closes it.

Who clears it outright? That NFA Director, Farm Management and Production on JMD $5,198,035 to JMD $6,990,779 (2026) misses the Darion by JMD $9,366 at the floor and clears it by JMD $20,513 at the ceiling, so it arrives partway up the band. On the central government scale, only 37 of the 153 grades clear the Darion at their bottom notch, and the lowest band to do it runs from JMD $6,649,966 to JMD $8,943,465 (2026), covering 12 grades including Senior Executive Officer 4, Accountant 4, Auditor 4 and Foreign Service Officer 5. At the bottom notch, 20% monthly is JMD $110,833, clear by JMD $14,833.

And the other end of that. 84 of the 153 grades cannot reach the Darion at the top notch of their band at all. Over half the central government scale, after a full career, cannot finance the most expensive car in this article.

One Authority, Four Salaries

Stay with the National Fisheries Authority for a minute, because it advertised enough posts in 2026 to make the whole article in one table. Same authority, same employer, same car park.

| Post | Salary (2026) | 20% monthly | What it buys |

|---|---|---|---|

| Bulldozer Operator | JMD $1,439,455 to JMD $1,935,907 | JMD $23,991 to JMD $32,265 | Nothing on this page, ever |

| Records Officer | JMD $2,190,302 to JMD $2,945,713 | JMD $36,505 to JMD $49,095 | Nothing on this page, ever |

| Senior Capture Fisheries Extension Officer | JMD $4,266,270 to JMD $5,737,659 | JMD $71,104 to JMD $95,628 | The Alvez. Then everything but the Darion |

| Director, Farm Management and Production | JMD $5,198,035 to JMD $6,990,779 | JMD $86,634 to JMD $116,513 | Everything, Darion included, once past the floor |

Four rungs of one ladder in one authority. Two of them cannot finance the cheapest car at this dealership at any point in a working life. One of them spends an entire career JMD $372 a month away from the top of the range. And one of them walks in and buys whatever is on the floor.

That gap is not about Wuling. It is what a Jamaican pay scale looks like when you lay a price list across it.

How Does This Compare To Jetour?

This is the comparison that matters most, because Jetour is in the same group, on the same terms, and I priced it in the first article of this series.

Jetour now lists nine models, up from six when I wrote about them. The lineup and the prices, November 2, 2026, with the dealer's own monthly payment and the salary each needs at 20%:

Note Well: my published Jetour article used a 30% ceiling, because that was the rule when I wrote it. From the Dongfeng article onward, the ceiling is 20%. The salary figures in this table are at 20%, so they are higher than the ones in that older piece. Same cars, stricter rule.

Now put the two lineups side by side, price against price. This is the part I did not expect.

- Cheapest in the whole group: Jetour X50, JMD $3,999,000. The Wuling Alvez is JMD $500,000 dearer and asks JMD $6,000 a month more.

- Against the Forthing Friday at JMD $5,999,000, the Jetour Dashing and X70 Plus are JMD $200,000 cheaper at JMD $5,799,000, and JMD $3,000 a month cheaper.

- Against the two pickups at JMD $6,999,000, the Jetour T1 is JMD $500,000 cheaper at JMD $6,499,000, and JMD $7,000 a month cheaper. It is an SUV, not a pickup, so it is not a straight swap.

- Against the Wuling Darion at JMD $7,999,000, the Jetour T1 PHEV is JMD $200,000 cheaper at JMD $7,799,000, and JMD $3,000 a month cheaper. Both are plug-in hybrids. The Darion seats seven, and the T1 PHEV does not.

So in every head to head, the Jetour is cheapest.

Sit with that, because these four new brands look like the value end of the group, and they are not. Jetour is. Jetour is also where the group's dearest cars live: the F700 at JMD $12,499,000 and the G700 at JMD $12,999,000 need JMD $9,000,000 and JMD $9,360,000 a year respectively, and nothing in the other four brands comes anywhere near either.

The purpose of expanding the brand lineup is straightforward: to plug the gaps in categories, features, and price tiers that Jetour doesn’t target. Jetour has no pickup under JMD $12,499,000, and the Rely R8 and Riddara RD6 are both JMD $6,999,000. Jetour has no 7 seat plug-in hybrid MPV at all. Forthing has the only range extender in the group. That is the actual case for walking into South Camp Road instead of Mannings Hill.

Across all 14 cars in the group, the site median of JMD $3,959,299 clears exactly two: the Jetour X50 and the Wuling Alvez. Two of 14.

Is The Warranty Actually Better Than The Last One?

Four dealers in, and this list is finally worth printing. These are the published figures.

- Jetour: 8 years or 300,000 km on the vehicle. 3 years or 42,500 km of free servicing, plus free registration and licensing, ceramic window tint, all weather mats, and a full tank on delivery.

- Wuling: 6 years or 150,000 km on the vehicle. 3 years of servicing, 32,500 km on the Alvez and 42,500 km on the Darion.

- Forthing: 8 years or 200,000 km. 3 years or 42,500 km of servicing. Home charger included in the price.

- Riddara: 5 years or 200,000 km. 3 years free servicing. 8 years or 200,000 km battery warranty.

- Rely: 5 years or 200,000 km. 3 years or 42,500 km of servicing. Five all terrain tyres and a roll bar fitted free.

- For context, from the earlier articles: Dongfeng 7 years or 300,000 km, with no mileage limit on the powertrain. Changan 6 years or 100,000 km.

Look at the kilometres, not the years, because the kilometres are where this gets decided. A Kingston commuter doing 40 km a day, five days a week, passes 100,000 km in about ten years. Somebody running Spanish Town to New Kingston and back gets there a lot sooner.

On that basis, Jetour's 300,000 km is the best coverage in the group, and it is not close. Forthing's 200,000 km and Rely's 200,000 km will outlast a ten year loan for most drivers. Wuling's 150,000 km will too, with less room, and the Alvez's 32,500 km servicing cap means "3 years free servicing" is realistically two and a half on a Kingston commute.

Note Well: on an electric vehicle, the battery warranty is the one that matters, because a battery is the five or six figure surprise that ends the car's life.

Which Side Is The Steering Wheel On?

Pay close attention to this section. As you know, we drive on the left in Jamaica. This has come up in every article in this series, and I have complained about it every time, so let me start with the good news.

Jetour publishes it. Every one of the nine models carries LHD or RHD right there in the website navigation. G700 LHD. F700 LHD. T2 RHD. T2 PHEV RHD. T1 RHD. T1 PHEV RHD. X70 Plus RHD. Dashing RHD. X50 LHD. No digging, no Instagram check, no asking at the counter.

Note which ones are left-hand drive. The X50 is the cheapest car in the entire group, and it is LHD.

Now the bad news. I checked the websites for the 4 other brands, and not one of them says which side the steering wheel is on. Not Wuling, not Forthing, not Riddara, not Rely. No "left-hand drive shown" caption on the photography either. The same group that labels all nine Jetours, labels none of the other four brands.

So the rule from the Dongfeng article still applies to these four: if the model page does not say right-hand drive, do not assume that it is. Ask about the exact unit you would be buying, and better yet go and test drive it. It is one showroom, and the cars are on the floor.

Is a left-hand drive car a dealbreaker? No, plenty of them drive here. Overtaking on a two-lane road is harder. And it follows you to resale, because the next buyer asks the question you are asking right now.

If You Are Buying Electric, Ask About The Plug

Three of these five plug in: the Riddara RD6, the Forthing Friday, and the Wuling Darion.

The charging warning from the last two articles still stands. Most of Jamaica's public charging network uses the American J1772 and CCS1 standards. Chinese cars generally arrive with the European Type 2 and CCS2. Different shape, same electricity, and you need the right adapter or the right station.

Here is what this group publishes. The Wuling Darion's specification page says CCS2, which is the European standard. Credit to them for printing it, because almost nobody does. Riddara and Forthing publish no connector standard at all on their Jamaican sites.

Forthing includes a home charger in the price, which solves most of the problem for most people, because home is where you will charge. It does not solve the road trip.

So ask two questions and do not leave without answers. Which connector does this exact unit have? Also, is an adapter a part of the deal, and for which standard?

What Should You Actually Do With This?

1. Run your 20% number before you walk in. Gross monthly pay times 0.2 is your ceiling. Or take your annual salary and divide by 60, which gets you there in one step.

2. Go to Mannings Hill too. Everything in this article is sold by the same company that sells Jetour, on the same terms, and in every comparison the Jetour is cheaper. If price is what is deciding it, you are standing in the wrong showroom of the right group.

3. Buy the type of car you desire. The reason to choose these four brands is that Jetour has no pickup under JMD $12,499,000, no electric vehicle, no REEV, and no 7 seat plug-in hybrid at all. If you need a tray or a third row, that is a real reason. If you just need a car, compare the price.

4. Ask whether you qualify for a concession. The Alvez drops to JMD $4,250,000 and the R8 to JMD $6,650,000 for concession buyers. On the R8, that is about JMD $5,200 a month and JMD $312,000 a year off the salary you need. Ask before you shop, not after.

5. On the two pickups, decide on charging/refueling before you decide on price, because the price is identical. Can you plug in where you work? Take the Riddara, and about JMD $1,301 per 100 km back in your pocket. Do you refuel on the road? Take the Rely. JMD $6,999,000 either way.

6. Get the R8's fuel consumption figure out of them. Rely publishes none, which makes the whole running cost comparison above one-sided.

7. Ask for the total you will have paid at the end, and then look at it. Ten years on the Alvez comes to about JMD $6,480,000 on a JMD $4,499,000 car. If that figure makes you uncomfortable, the answer is a shorter term or a cheaper car, not a longer term.

8. If you have a deposit, know exactly what it buys. Every JMD $100,000 you put down takes about JMD $1,200 off the monthly payment at these terms. That fisheries extension officer who missed the Darion by JMD $372 needs about JMD $31,000. The same officer, on day one, missing the Friday by JMD $896, needs about JMD $75,000. Work out your own gap, divide by 1,200, multiply by 100,000.

9. Get Riddara's kilometre cap in writing, and the battery term with it. An 8 year warranty with no published distance is the single biggest unanswered question on these five cars.

10. Ask which side the wheel is on. Jetour publishes it for all nine of its models. None of these four brands publishes it for any of theirs.

11. Do not stretch for the next model up. Look at the pattern on this page. Almost nobody clears a car comfortably. They clear it by JMD $1,634, or they miss it by JMD $372. That is exactly the range where somebody talks themselves into it.

12. Look up your own job on this site before the test drive. If your title is not there, or the only figure for it is from one employer, add yours.

How I Calculated These Figures?

Prices came from wulingja.com, forthingja.com, riddaraja.com, and relyja.com on November 2, 2026, for every model those sites publish a price for: the Wuling Alvez and Darion, the Forthing Friday REEV, the Riddara RD6 Econ, and the Rely R8. The Forthing Friday EV is listed as a model on the group's own site but carries no price on Forthing's, so it is not in the table. The Jetour prices and payments came off jetourja.com on the same day, for all nine models.

The monthly payments are the dealer's own, published beside each price on their own websites. That is a change from the last three articles, where I had to model them. The two concession prices, the Alvez at JMD $4,250,000 and the R8 at JMD $6,650,000, are the exceptions: neither carries a published payment, so those two monthly figures are my model and are flagged as such where they appear.

The model, for the record and for anybody who wants to check those two figures: no down payment, 120 months, 7.75% a year on the reducing balance, each payment rounded to the nearest hundred dollars so you can reproduce the salary yourself by multiplying by 60.

That 7.75% is the rate I back-calculated out of Jetour Jamaica's published payments for the first article in this series. I have now tested it against all 14 published payments across the group's five brands. It lands exactly on the dealer's figure 7 times out of 14 and within JMD $1,000 on the other 7, for a total disagreement of JMD $4,600 across 14 cars. That is why I am comfortable calling it this group's real rate rather than my estimate.

The salary required is the monthly payment multiplied by 12 and divided by 0.2. Nothing else is in it. I have not modelled insurance, licensing, fitness, fuel, or depreciation, and all of those are real.

The running cost figures in the pickup section use Riddara's own published consumption of about 17 kWh per 100 km, and the electricity price, petrol price and SUV consumption that Forthing's own fuel savings calculator assumes: about JMD $50 per kWh for JPS residential power, and petrol at about JMD $239 a litre, built from Petrojam's ex-refinery price for October 28, 2026 plus a typical retail markup. Those are the dealer group's assumptions, not mine, and I have used them because they are the ones on their own website. Rely publishes no consumption figure for the R8, so no diesel cost per 100 km appears anywhere in this article.

The drive side facts for Jetour come from Jetour Jamaica's own website navigation, which labels each model LHD or RHD. For the other four brands, there are no drive-side facts to report, because none of those four websites publishes them.

The salaries come from the CaribSalaries database, and the year each one was reported is in brackets beside it. The year is the year the figure was earned or published, not the year it was added to the site. Two kinds of sources are here, and I have used the newest of each:

- The April 2026 central government scales, published by the Ministry of Finance and in force since 1 April 2026. All 153 grades. Where a grade is a band, I have shown both ends, because the notch you sit on decides the car.

- 2026 job postings, stored at the bottom of the advertised range, because that is a number somebody is definitely paid. Where the advertisement gave a ceiling too, I have printed it.

Every role named in this article is a different role from the ones in the Jetour, Dongfeng, and Changan articles. The underlying government bands do repeat, because that is how the service is built, and there are only about nine of them in the range a car sits in. The roles sitting on them are new every time, and that is the thing worth keeping fresh.

The site median of JMD $3,959,299 is the figure printed on the CaribSalaries homepage on November 2, 2026, across every role on the site, from 2,936 approved reports.

Nothing on this page is estimated or inferred from another market, with the single exception of the two concession payments, which are flagged as a model where they appear.

For deeper analysis of the data, you can check out our Insight Reports:

https://caribsalaries.com/insights. We are currently running a 10% discount on all reports. If you sign up for an account, you also get an interactive dashboard with charts that can be explored for each report purchase.

Spread The Word

Four dealer articles in, and I can now name a driver, a store clerk, a bulldozer operator, a records officer, a fisheries extension officer, a post office security supervisor and an agency director against the cars they can and cannot buy. Those figures exist because employers published them.

Here is what I still cannot tell you. I cannot show you the salary of a single person who works at Tyre Warehouse Automotive. Not a salesperson, not a service advisor, not a parts manager, not a mechanic, not a tyre fitter. The group that just took on five car brands and opened a new showroom on South Camp Road, and I have no idea what they pay anybody🤷🏾‍♂️.

If your job is missing, add it: https://caribsalaries.com/submit. It takes about three minutes; it is completely anonymous, and nothing identifying ever appears on the site.

And tell me in the comments which dealer you want next. I am working through every major one in Jamaica until you can look up any car on any lot and know in ten seconds whether it fits your payslip.

So which is it? The JMD $54,000 a month Alvez, that a little over half the government scale can afford on day one, or the JMD $96,000 a month Darion, that a fisheries officer spends a whole career missing by JMD $372? And if it is a pickup: electric or diesel, for the exact same JMD $6,999,000? Tell me in the comments section on social media.