Strip the Oushan COS1° back to its specification sheet and the character is already there: Petrol engine, 131-174 kW. Changan Automobile built from 2018 to 2021, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market.
The background
The Oshan COS1° (Chinese: 欧尚科赛; pinyin: Ōushàng kēsài) is a 7-seater mid-sized crossover produced by Changan Automobile under the Oshan brand.
The engineering
The engine is Petrol engine; the output is 131-174 kW; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 1665 kg. That is roughly 79 horsepower per tonne: unhurried — enough for the job, not for the bragging. Drive goes through a 6-speed Manual transmission / manual / 6-speed Automatic transmission / automatic / 8-speed automatic. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2800 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
In the Changan Automobile line-up the Oushan COS1° has a clear place: the factory was China. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Kia EV6, the Lexus UX, the JAC Group Sehol E20X. Its Changan Automobile stablemates include the Avatr 06 and the Avatr 07.