Free 5 years/75000km servicing on the Chery Tiggo 7 Super Hybrid, the cheapest PHEV SUV in Australia at $39,990 driveaway, and the Tiggo 8 Super Hybrid.
Free Servicing for 5 Years/75,000km (Valued at $1,595) with Chery Tiggo 7 & 8 Super Hybrid @ Chery
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What’s the number you’re holding out for before you pull the trigger?
I'm after the Chery Tiggo 7 ultimate super hybrid. I recon if it was $40,000 I would get it. Also interested in Jaecoo J7 and BYD sealion 6. Whatever of the 3 that has the best discount by the end of the year is who I recon I will end up going with.
Sounds good to me, but why not full BEV?
@freeb1e4me: Not too keen on the Atto 3 interior. The "guitar string" interior door design looks weird. Don't know much about the MG S5
@FrankTT: The MG S5 drives and looks better than the Atto 3 interior. It is less techy though. Not sure on range but worth a look at
Don't forget about the new Haval H6 PHEV too. That is a really solid car.
@SeanConnery: Yeah I agree, the design of that car looks great. Wasn't really into Haval but that model has made me have second thoughts.
Jawcooo has bad cabin noise. I test drove it.
The competition is heating up…
Hotter than a Hymix in north QLD on Christmas day.
How does this compare to a 1995 Camry?
Ask @30year old Camry
Lmao what a username
yeah its a good one
I'd be putting money on the fact that these Chery Tiggo's won't be on the road in 30 years unlike the Camrys.
Probably last 8-10 years before they end up in the wreckers.
This is true no matter which brand you buy today, including a 2026 Camry.
The only exceptions are cars that are still built like they were 30 years ago, such as the 70 Series. But I don't want to be in an accident while in a car that's missing 3 decades of safety innovation.
The Camry will still be running in 2035 whereas this will have carked it four years earlier.
And Toyota will still be here, no guarantees Chery don't smoke bomb out of the Australian market (again).
I would take the formentor vze over this. $45k with "leather" interior
Yep. Imagine buying a chery instead of a formentor for similar money.
Similar money? Add $2k over 5 years services. Compare apples to apples, you're at $7k+ plus the premium fuel plus half the electric range.
But don't get my wrong. This Chery is a pretty mediocre car. Pick your poison.
You are also getting a premium car compared to an entry level car. Yes it won’t be the same but it’s a huge upgrade for little money.
@SetTheFaqUp: It’s certainly marketed as fashion design forward car. Options like leather, mat paints, bronze finishings don’t come on cars that aren’t playing in the premium market
@Brick Tamland: "Options like leather, mat paints, bronze finishings don’t come on cars that aren’t playing in the premium market"
Point taken. If that is how "premium" is defined.
Yes but then you have to buy a Cupra 🤢🤮🤮
If I "had to buy" a budget Chinese car or a mid range euro car…..
Easy decision
@mongos: " bottom end euro car" Seat is never anywhere near the so called "mid range" (whatever that is).
This is calling a STI a premium Japanese car. Fast one, yes, a more premium one, no.
Standard VW running gear under the bonnet.
@SetTheFaqUp: SEAT is bottom end. Cupra is mid range. If you don't trust me, just google it.
I get it. You don't like them but you're just making shit up now
@mongos: "If you don't trust me, just google it."
Go drive some cars, pop open some bonnets. Googling won't do much for you.
Oh and buying a crappy Chinese car is supposed to be a flex
@Exec-Matrix: Haha. If I see a man driving a chery you know they hate their car and they have no power in their relationship because their wife made them buy that car. That, or it’s a rental.
@Brick Tamland: "have no power in their relationship"
No wonder there are so many big cars on the road driven by the smallest guys. That's what it is.
Actually, the formentor vze is $48k DA. That’s a $10k difference if you now include the 5 year free servicing in this deal
Plus it’s a euro car not built for the harsh Australian conditions. Problems will arise for sure…
Approx 45k with leather but no sunroof.
Some countries in Europe (eg Spain) can get quite warm at times!
Not saying that VAG cars are completely reliable but I would trust a VW over a Chery
All SUVs…
Do they have sedan or hatchback models?
It's extremely unsafe to be driving a low-riding sedan or hatchback these days with the amount of Ford Rangers with their normal headlights looking like high beams in your mirrors.
That's why I have a F650
Even in a Ranger other Ranger headlights were annoying.
"F650"
The Kentworths out there will eat this for breakfast.
@SetTheFaqUp: With all the road trains out there it's unsafe to even step for inside a regular kentworth. We should all be going to the supermarket in road trains.
All business needs to make profit. If they can sell at unbelievably low price, they cut corners somewhere. And if they cut where you cannot see, imagine how scary when your life on the road may depend on its quality… Other manufacturers are more expensive for a reason :)
They do. Pull out some plastic trims (try not to break them whilst pulling them out!) from the Chinese cars and they are rather fragile.
Cupra is no better, very "thin", but they seem to use virgin plastic that can tolerate a bit of stretch and bend.
So here we have the example of two bottom tier cars (Chery vs Seat) and labour cost in China is much cheaper than Europe.
I don’t own a SEAT or Cupra, but Cupra is not bottom tier. It is the sports division of SEAT owned by the Volkswagen group. Which together (CUPRA and SEAT) delivered 558,100 cars in 2024.
The Cupra Formentor is built on the Volkswagen Group's MQB Evo platform, to share parts and build quality with other Volkswagen group models (eg Skoda and Audi). If your someone like me who loves manufacturing processes, this platform is pretty amazing to enhance efficiency and build quality.
For those not in the know, Cupra and SEAT are having sales atm. Yesterday announcement on car review platforms was the Cupra Formentor VZe plug-in hybrid (PHEV). Which is currently on run out for $47,990 drive-away. Which is $20,000 lower than when it came to market during post high price Covid times.
"sports division of SEAT"
Seat is a bottom feeder like VW, and being a performance division doesn't make it a "mid tier". The rebadged Audi is the next one up, then Porsche.
The marketing BS in the recent years made many VW drivers think they they are driving a Porsche.
"during post high price Covid times."
They were the first to ease on then demand side and all the top of their line vxz got dumped to rental companies.
"this platform is pretty amazing to enhance efficiency and build quality."
Financial efficiency - yes. And quality? Hm…
"If your someone like me who loves manufacturing processes"
So you have studied the Toyota way back to front and is a keen lover of Tesla. If anything these two have perfected the manufacturering process of their eras.
@SetTheFaqUp: Yes Tesla is arguably the most advance manufacturing process, but the vehicle product portfolio is still less than 10. Compared to the huge vehicle product diversity of Toyota's TNGA (introduced around 2015) and Volkswagen's MQB (introduced first around 2012) modular platforms.
These platforms are amazing because they consolidate manufacturing production lines and R&D by sharing components, which enable greater economies of scale and bring improvement opportunities to quality control.
Yep every vehicle manufacturer had increased prices post covid excessively…. only recently are we seeing competitive sales again to increase buyer demand.
Clearly you’re not a fan of VW which is totally fine, we all have our favourite brands (mine is BMW). But many other car journalist and enthusiasts do like the Cupra Formentor, it finished second in the Carsale Car of the Year Awards in 2022 and was named their People's Choice winner by their readers. It’s also received an award by UK Autocar.
I haven’t seen Chery Tiggo 7 win any awards, the brand is on the improvement especially since the 2012 days when they had to recall vehicles due to containing asbestos
@NeedASugarDaddy: You're wasting your time using rational arguments with him. Dunning and Kruger proven correct!
Chery sold 2.6 million cars last year just so you know
I have a Chery and can confirm the innards of the dash look a bit dodgy. But truth to be told, only premium brands look considerably better nowadays, you see the same sort of “workarounds” across most brands. And hey, if it can still perform the same from a safety and durability perspective, I don’t really care - and so far nothing tells/told me it can’t.
The car itself is better or the same of what the competition had to offer for 10-15k more. Once you put in the legwork and look around, it feels incredibly hard to justify spending more for less.
And the cost for the 6th year service is $1291.
They need to recoup their money at some point.
I have been watching lots of WeChat reels on an increasing trend of fires involving Chinese EVs while charging
Saul must have driven it faster than 85mph at some point during his ownership of the Corol..er I mean Rav4…
The strange thing is EVs seem to catch fire in China, but not here.
There have been only 10 EV fires in Australia, and that's including someone who used a cheap travel adapter to charge their car (dumb), and a battery pack that was removed from a damaged car and kept in the parking lot of a car rental business (dumb).
Maybe we get the higher quality EVs here. Maybe people in China are setting fire to their own vehicles to get insurance payouts due to their economic problems. I don't know.
Are these designed in China and made here?
lol… but in all seriousness, no.
Holding out for a bigger price discount than the recent $2000 off offer. Hopefully by end of the year.