The Changan CS35 Plus is a 5-door SUV from Changan Automobile, built from 2018, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Under the bonnet: 1.4 L Straight-four engine.
Where it came from
The Changan CS35 Plus is a subcompact crossover SUV produced by Changan Automobile positioned slightly above the Changan CS35 as a slightly more premium model.
Under the skin
Power comes from 1.4 L Straight-four engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It shifts through a 5-speed Manual transmission / manual / 6-speed Semi-automatic transmission / semi-automatic / 7-speed Dual-clutch transmission / DCT. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2600 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
In context
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Changan CS35; assembly was at Chongqing. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Porsche Taycan, the Tesla Model 3, the Tesla Model Y — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Changan Automobile catalogue sit the Avatr 06 and the Avatr 07.