Chery automobile company in Russia announced that it has started accepting pre-orders for its new flagship crossover Tiggo 9, the most anticipated new product of 2024. The first buyers were promised winter tires as gifts and the opportunity to win a trip to China. . The manufacturer plans to start official sales in December.
Chery Tiggo 9
Chery
The seven-seater Chery Tiggo 9 is positioned as a car for a large family. The new product became the largest of the brand’s model series (4810x1925x1741 mm) with a wheelbase of 2800 mm.
Under the hood of the car is a two-liter gasoline turbo engine that produces 249 horsepower. (375 Nm) and eight-speed automatic transmission.
The Tiggo 9 crossover can accelerate to 100 km/h in eight seconds.
Among other things, the new product will be the first model on the T2X platform in the Russian model series. Its advantages include hydraulic silent blocks and the CDC active damping system, which helps regulate the stiffness of the shock absorbers and keep the car stable when cornering.
Options also include autonomous emergency braking technologies, cruise control, traffic jam assistant and automatic parking system (APA). The latter uses ultrasonic radar and omnidirectional cameras. It can automatically park the car parallel, perpendicular and diagonal.
Parking Assist has a memory function that will make parking easier and faster after initial setup.
Tiggo 9 is also equipped with 10 airbags, which is very rare by the standards of the class. The manufacturer states that the center airbag is innovative because it is positioned exactly between the driver and front passenger, greatly reducing the risk of side impact and vehicle rollover.
what’s inside
Chery crossover can be purchased in six colors: black, blue, white, gray and two versions of green. The manufacturer emphasizes that designers were inspired by the appearance of a tiger when creating the car. Thus, Tiggo 9 received an impressive grille and a bionic contour that should resemble the grin of a predator.
Chery Tiggo 9
Chery
The decor around the fog lamps features a repeated tiger stripe pattern. The car’s side mirrors are equipped with electric adjustment, memory, heating and folding functions.
Tiggo 9 has a spacious interior, three-dimensional stitching design on the seats made of genuine leather. The driver’s seat is electrically adjustable in eight directions. The front seats also have a massage function.
Chery Tiggo 9
Chery
The manufacturer claims that engineers have managed to create particularly efficient space inside the Tiggo 9: since the dimensions of the car are the same as those of its competitors, its interior is larger and more comfortable.
The new car also features a sliding instrument cluster display (10.3 inches), a high-resolution main display (15.6 inches) and a head-up display.
There will be demand
According to automobile experts interviewed by socialbites.ca, the new product will be in demand among Russians.
“In fact, we have a vehicle almost the same size as the Jaecoo J8. If the price of the Tiggo 9 is sufficient, it will find its buyer. However, we will mostly have to attract customers from other brands, because there are no Russians who can afford such a car anymore,” says the automobile expert and editor-in-chief of Za Rulem magazine directed by Maxim Kadakov.
Chery Tiggo 9
Chery
He admitted that the company would have to “bite” customers even from brands in the Chery family, including Exeed and Jaecoo. Tiggo 9’s competitors will also include Haval and Geely cars.
“Some buyers will have to be taken away. If they don’t take it away, there will be no customers,” Kadakov thinks.
The editor-in-chief of “Behind the Wheel” added: If Chery manages to offer a price around 4.5 million rubles, the new product will be successful against its competitors.
The existence of demand for large crossovers among Russians was also confirmed by automobile expert Pyotr Bakanov.
“There is a certain demand for such large crossovers in Russia because there are not enough such cars on the market. And the Tiggo 9 is actually the twin brother of the Jaecoo J8; they are structurally similar but differ in positioning and configuration. Therefore, they will have to compete,” the expert thinks.
Jaecoo J8
jaecoo
According to Bakanov, Tiggo 9 will also compete with Changan CS95 and Jetour X90. However, the interlocutor emphasizes that the Haval brand does not have a similar car. suggested this The price tag of the new Chery product will start from 4 million rubles.
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Source: Gazeta
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