Chery does not build many cars like the Chery E3: a 4-door sedan with 1.5 L SQRD4G15 I4, built from 2013 to 2015 as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market.
How it came about
The Chery E3 (codeproject A19) is a Subcompact sedan produced by Chery before the major facelift and name change to Arrizo 3.
The hardware
Under the skin sits 1.5 L SQRD4G15 I4. Kerb weight is 1208 kg. The gearbox is a 5-speed manual. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2570 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Where it sits in Chery's history is not in doubt: the Chery A13 came before it; the Chery Arrizo 3 followed it; it was built at Wuhu, Anhui, China. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Infiniti Q50, the Mazda CX-5, the Peugeot 208. Its Chery stablemates include the Chery Arrizo 5 GT and the Chery A1.