The Chery Tansuo 06 is a 5-door SUV from Chery, built from 2023, in the decade the industry is turning electric. Under the bonnet: Petrol engine. Steve Eum drew it.
How it came about
The Jaecoo J7 (also known as Jaecoo 7) is a compact crossover SUV (C-segment) produced by Chery since 2023. Outside China, the vehicle is marketed under the Jaecoo brand as its first product. It is available in both a petrol variant and a plug-in hybrid.
In China, it is marketed as the Chery Tansuo 06 (Chinese: 奇瑞探索06; pinyin: Qíruì Tànsuǒ 06). It is also marketed as the Chery Fulwin T6 (Chinese: 奇瑞风云T6; pinyin: Qíruì Fēngyún T6) (plug-in hybrid only) and Chery Tiggo 7 High Energy (Chinese: 奇瑞瑞虎7高能; pinyin: Qíruì Ruìhǔ 7 Gāonéng) since 2024. The car's "striking" resemblance to Range Rover models has led to the nickname "Temu Range Rover", a nod to its styling and features at approximately one third of the price; Chery has a joint venture with Jaguar Land Rover that produced some of its cars in China.
The hardware
Power comes from Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs NNNN lb. It shifts through a 7-speed Dual-clutch transmission / dual-clutch / Dedicated hybrid transmission (DHT) (SHS). The wheelbase is 2650 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its family tree is legible: assembly was at ubl | China: Dalian, Liaoning | Malaysia: Shah Alam, Selangor | Indonesia: Bekasi, West Java ( ) | Iran: Savojbolagh, Alborz (Mammut Group). Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Tesla Cybertruck, the Nissan Z, the Kia EV6 — show what else the money bought that year. Its Chery stablemates include the Chery Arrizo 5 GT and the Chery A1.