The Chery V5 is a 5-door minivan from Chery, built from 2006 to 2015, in the decade of stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids. Under the bonnet: Petrol engine.
Where it came from
The Chery Eastar Cross (Chinese: 东方之子Cross), also known as Chery V5, is a minivan produced by the Chinese manufacturer Chery Automobile from June 2006 to 2015.
Under the skin
Power comes from Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 1505 kg. It shifts through a 6-speed manual / 5-speed manual / 4-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.
In context
Its family tree is legible: its successor was the Chery Arrizo M7; assembly was at Wuhu, Anhui, China. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Nissan Qashqai, the Audi R8, the Kia Sportage — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Chery catalogue sit the Chery Arrizo 5 GT and the Chery A1.