The Range Rover Evoque-rivalling Jaecoo 5 will go on sale this summer, priced from £24,505.
The 5 will become the second model in the Chery-owned brand’s UK range following the popular 7, which has amassed 8399 sales so far this year.
At launch, the 5 will be powered by a 145bhp 1.6-litre turbocharged petrol engine. Details on the EV variant will follow in the “coming weeks”.
Visually, the Jaecoo 5 is a shrunken version of the 7, with near-identical front and rear end designs, but with a shorter wheelbase and a more raked roofline.
The entry-level 5 comes with a 13.2in vertical touchscreen, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and all-round parking cameras.
The 5 will be sold in two trim levels: Pure and Luxury. Entry-level equipment includes a six-speaker audio system, six-way adjustable seats, and wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. For £28,000, Luxury trim adds a panoramic roof, wireless phone charging, and heated and ventilated front seats.
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Is this article really comparing a Chinese Jaecoo 5 to a Range Rover Evoque? That is so far off the mark it's laughable. The Range Rover badge alone will be worth more than the entire Jaecoo 5 in two years.
Anyway you look at it this latest offering from Jaecoo in amazing value fot money, it undercuts the Dacia Bigster by £700 and is better equipped, I've seen a Jaecoo 7 and it is quite an imposing looking SUV with really good interior and it is no surprise to me that over 8000 have been sold in six months. Is it good for these Chinese cars being sold here ? I'm old enough to remember when the first Japanese cars came on sale here over fifty years, bringing reliable well equpped cars sold at a reasonable price . Then as now we had all the major European manufacturers complained about these new imports citing that the Japanese were dumping the products on to the UK market. As things turned out the damage was limited Chrysler sold it's European operations to PSA but it forced the European manufacturers to up their game by improving product quality often using Japanese methods. The only real casualty was British Leyland who already had their own problems and despite selling off every non core activity they had and collaborating with Honda finally threw in the towel thirty years later and sold their assets to SAIC a Chinese company, rather ironic isn't it?
Some punters only see the bottom line, it gets them into what looks like a prestige car for the price of a shopper car,they don't care where or who particularly,they just see a car that looks like something they aspire to but can't afford, pile em high sell em cheap seems to be the mantra in China, whether they're any good or not we will have to wait and see,but the UK and Europe are about to get flooded with Chinese cars and other types of road vehicles which can't be a good thing for the home made produced here.
This in no way looks premium though, it looks clearly cheap and generic, narrow tracked and stumpy in wheelbase. I dont see the appeal at all.
There must be something that appeals about it though, theyve sold more of one model than FIAT have in total so far this year in the UK
Well there are cars produced here but not by UK owned companies, Nissan and Toyota aren't British JLR are owned by Tata Motors, those icons of British manufacturing Bentley & Rolls Royce are owned by the Germans aren't they? Aston Martin are owned by Lawrence Stroll a Canadian and even plucky little Morgan are owned by Investindustrial an Italian company, so tell me what UK owned car builder will be affected by Chinese imports
Well there are cars produced here but not by UK owned companies, Nissan and Toyota aren't British JLR are owned by Tata Motors, those icons of British manufacturing Bentley & Rolls Royce are owned by the Germans aren't they? Aston Martin are owned by Lawrence Stroll a Canadian and even plucky little Morgan are owned by Investindustrial an Italian company, so tell me what UK owned car builder will be affected by Chinese imports