Chery does not build many cars like the Chery Tiggo 9: a 5-door SUV with Petrol engine, built from 2023 to 2024 in the decade the industry is turning electric. Its designer of record is Zheming Liu.
The story
The Chery Tiggo 9 (Chinese: 奇瑞瑞虎9; pinyin: Qíruì Ruìhǔ 9) is a series of three-row mid-size SUV produced by Chery under the Tiggo product series which was introduced in March 2023. It is positioned as the flagship of the Tiggo series above the Tiggo 8 family and is available as a five-seater and a three-row seven-seater model.
It is also exported under the Jaecoo brand as the Jaecoo J8/8. In March 2024, Chery launched the plug-in hybrid version of Tiggo 9 called the Chery Fulwin T10 in Chinese market. The global market Tiggo 9 was also released, which is instead a rebadged Tiggo 8L / Fulwin T9 positioned above the Tiggo 8 series.
What is underneath
Under the skin sits Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. The gearbox is a 8-speed Automatic transmission / automatic / 7-speed dual-clutch. The wheelbase is 2820 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Where it sits in Chery's history is not in doubt: it was built at ubl | China: Wuhu, Anhui | Malaysia: Shah Alam | Indonesia: Bekasi, West Java ( ) | Iran: Savojbolagh, Alborz (Mammut Group). On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Tesla Cybertruck, the Nissan Z, the Kia EV6. Nearby in the Chery catalogue sit the Chery Arrizo 5 GT and the Chery A1.
Chery Tiggo