The 2012 QQ live at the GZ Auto Show
The QQ maybe a common car in China, but its outing at the 2011 Guangzhou Auto Show was a rare event indeed, you see Chery never shows the QQ at major events. We’re not sure why Chery don’t like to show the QQ, perhaps due the QQ’s murky past as one of the first Chinese cloned cars where the QQ had a striking resemblance to the then Daewoo Matiz/Chevrolet Spark. However, for 2012 the QQ has had a slight makeover ahead of a new generation coming in 2013/14, which will leave the below car to soldier on for a few more years. The exterior has received a black ‘Triumph style‘ safety bumper around the front end but the rear end seems largely the same. The interior has had a workover and seems a lot less rough than before.
Engines for the new QQ will be the same as the old QQ, so a basic 800cc rising to a range topping 1.3L with a 1.0L in the middle.
Even though the QQ is now nearly a decade old, we think it will still continue to be Chery’s bread and butter car.
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I have been keeping my eye on the Chinese car industry for years and I first got interested was when I saw this car. All of the controversy over the copied design of the car helped it become known even in the U.S.. It was actually a great move for Chery. If not for that people may have never heard the name Chery, much less QQ. I think there is a need in the U.S. for affordable (sub $10,000) subcompact cars that are reliable, have good warranties, and are not completely stripped of options. Maybe one day Chery can supply those cars for people in the U.S.. We need card that we can send kids off to college in, cars to drive back and forth to work in that are fuel efficient. Get the reliability up and keep the cars simple and then ship them over. People will buy
@ Greg
This is still same old first-gen Daewoo Matiz(Daewoo moved onto 3rd gen now); Chery still appears to be unable to engineer a replacement after a decade of auto building.
Oh I know! It’s now time to reverse engineer the Chevy Spark! LOL I think that with time Chery will get there. But they need to have the desire to innovate and not copy. Also, it is time to consolidate these car companies. I can see Chery, Geely, BYD and Great Wall being the main Chinese auto manufacturers. Great Wall itself has such an amazing opportunity because of just the value of their name. EVERYONE knows what the Great Wall of China is and it sounds tough and long lasting. It would be great if they would stop reverse engineering Toyota designs and just put in the work on something original. It’s one thing to copy a suspension piece or make a similar engine, but to steal the whole car and throw on a new hood and a gaudy looking grill is just terrible to me.