January 09, 2007

The Chery Tiggo, the chinese SUV


Unfortunately this Chery Tiggo SUV is not their own design, but rather yet another car copied by Chery from the Toyota RAV4. If you'll look at the pictures you'll see that the cars are almost identical, while the Chery Tiggo has a much worse safety rating. The Chery Tiggo is a small SUV and it was launched into production in 2006. It's got five doors and has both front wheel and all wheel drive. This Chery SUV has three engines, all gasoline, with capacities of 1.6L, 2.0L and 2.4L. The Chery Tiggo is 4285mm long, 1765mm wide and 1705mm in height.


I heard some news a few months ago that Chery wanted to build the Tiggo and the QQ in Uruguay together with the argentinian company Socma. Chery will own 51% of this new company and the target markets for the cars that will be built there are the countries from South America, in the Mercosur trade bloc. Originally this argentinian company was building french and italian cars in the 1990's. Let's see how this goes. I suspect that the cheap Chery cars will have some success in South America but, to be honest, if I don't have too much money I'd rather go for a second hand car that often can be more reliable then a Chery QQ or Tiggo.


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