Chery M14 – will it ever launch?


The Chery M14 concept car was quite a desirable looking car, in say, 2006 when we first saw it. Three years later and whilst the M14 is still regularly seen being test driven around Wuhu (Chery’s home city) it doesnt seem any closer to arriving in dealerships.

The M14 is China’s first hard top cabriolet and was first shown to  the crowds at the Beijing Auto Show in 2006, with rumors of a 2.0L Turbo engine finding its way into the FWD platform. But sometime in 2007, the M14 dissappeared from the radar and was replaced by the Chery A6CC concept car instead. Except the M14 was spotted last week yet again:

The M14′s exterior still looks fantastic, but that drab gray interior isn’t going to excite anyone anytime soon. Perhaps its better that the M14 gets shelved in favor of the A6CC anyway!

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Ash came to China at 18 on a whim and never left. Some 10 years later he collected a degree and a family along the way and now focuses his time on watching the Chinese car industry develop. He has witnessed the market change from being minor backyard market in to the world's biggest and most important market for all car manufacturers. You can contact or connect with him via Linkedin by clicking the 'Website' link.

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2 Comments so far, please add your thoughts!

  1. avatar Jackson Li says:

    wow! the interior looks extremely dated, they should redesign the whole thing it looks to much like the beauty leopard (shudder convulsively): start from the scratch! The thing that i don’t understand is why did it take them so long to get this car into production, it’s been like 4 years! Even American car get a complete make over in like 3 to 4 years.

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