This is the next generation of Chery QQ

Chery Automobile, Spy Shots | Ash | October 10, 2011 at 11:02 am

The Chery QQ set the Chinese automotive world alight, and to some extent it burned the fringes of the traditional auto makers in the West and the East, the QQ was the start of the clone wars which would hit the Chinese market until…. well, the clones haven’t yet entirely stopped with some smaller auto makers continuing to make cars that seem oddly like cars we have seen before, but the majority of Chinese manufacturers have gone their own way in terms of design style. The QQ was a blatant clone of the Chevrolet Spark or Daewoo Matiz depending on which market it was sold in, Wikipedia even goes to say that Chery stuffed the Matiz doors on the QQ when it went through crash testing to gain a higher mark, only to put the regular doors back on the production model. Either way, the QQ is what propelled Chery to fame in the same way that cloned cars from Nissan, Toyota and Honda helped get them off the ground in the 50′s.

The QQ is long in the tooth to say the least, the car was first launched in 2003 and hasn’t had much of an update until mid 2011, the market is now full of low cost Chinese cars but the QQ was the first but not exactly the best anymore. Now Chery are updating the QQ for 2012 with an entirely new model:

The next generation QQ3 seems to have some styling that is borrowed from its rivals, the Geely Panda and BYD F0 (and by default, Toyota Aygo) seem to be represented in the rear hatch of the new QQ, Chery were a market leader with the original QQ so here’s hoping that they do something unique with the next generation model. The interior seems to be interesting to say the least, whilst the platform is reportedly shared with the Riich M1 and also the Chery A1, this is a major upgrade for the new QQ as the A1 is considered one of the better platforms on the market. We might see the new QQ in November at the Guangzhou Auto Show in concept form, but Chery rarely shows concepts and instead prefers to show production models, in which case we might not see the QQ until April 2012 at the Beijing Auto Show.

We will keep you updated.

Ash

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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