The Changan CS15 is a 5-door SUV from Changan Automobile, built from 2015 to 2023, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Under the bonnet: Petrol engine.
The background
The Changan CS15 is a subcompact crossover SUV produced by Changan Automobile positioned under the similar-sized Changan CS35.
The engineering
Power comes from Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It shifts through a 5-speed manual / 5-speed DCT. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2510 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Changan CX20; assembly was at Chongqing, China. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Ferrari 488, the Ford Escort, the Chevrolet Camaro — show what else the money bought that year. Its Changan Automobile stablemates include the Avatr 06 and the Avatr 07.