The Chery Riich Z5 has been in development for a very long time, and is something that we have all been looking forward to seeing hit the roads. When the car was in development it was known as the Chery A6CC, and was likely to join the Chery A-series of cars but with the development of the Riich and Reely brands by Chery, it seems that the A6CC was upgraded to Chery’s Riich brand, which is aiming to be a semi luxurious brand for the Chinese market.
The Riich Z5 …

The facelift Chery Tiggo3 is set to wow the Chengdu Auto Show with its fresh new face, the first since its conception in 2006. The Tiggo has been one of the best selling Chinese self developed SUV’s since its launch and has continually risen to the top 5 best selling SUV’s month after month. Currently it seems that Chery is selling two distinct models in China, one is the current model as we all know it, and a second is the ‘DR Edition’ (not DR as in Doctor, though). The …

Chery split off their brands into three seperate directions last year, Riich was to be its luxury brand, Reely was to be its MPV/SUV brand whilst Karry was to be the super economical brand that is being aimed at rural buyers.
The Karry brand has so far sprouted five models, four mini bread vans (You Pai, You You, You Sheng, You Ya), and a sedan box van (the You Yi), the You You (Here You being pronounced as the same as Yo!). The You You is the first to get the …

Chery love small cars, it’s unclear why they feel it is nessecery to build so many small cars that increase competition within the dealership floors, their current small car line up includes the Chery A1, Fulwin2, QQ3, QQ6 and the QQme and if you want to exaggerate slightly perhaps also the A3 sedan could be included as a small car, but lets not forget the Riich M1 as well.
Chery appear to be developing another hatchback small car and judging by the spy pictures it looks to be derived from the …

Chery’s first 800cc engine was put into the lowest model of the Chery QQ, the 800cc engine was good for 52bhp which was enough to punt the little mini car around town in a relatively dignified manner.
Chery have now produced a second generation model of the 800cc engine which is promising improved power and improved economy around town thanks to improved DVVT technology. Torque has been improved to 85Nm, whilst the previous generation was 78Nm.
Chery have been one of the strongest proponents of self developed engine technology and have been …

Chery are serious about their Riich brand, despite its less than enthusiastic name it will be getting some lessons from forced induction when it gets a turbo bolted onto it.
Naysayers that said the Riich brand was pretty much a do-do might have egg on their face when they realise that the Riich brand is actually doing quite well. In the first half of 2010, Riich vehicles sold 25,000 vehicles, although they are aiming for a sales target of 80,000 units this year so Chery are expected to give the Riich …

A facelift Chery Tiggo3 has been spotted out testing yet again, and seems to be a seriously nice looking vehicle. This version of the Tiggo3 was not on show at the Beijing Auto Show this year, instead Chery have been pushing their DR Edition Tiggo3 here in China.
The facelift Tiggo3 appears to have taken on a much more mature, and slightly more European design style that was lacking from the original RAV4 clone. The Tiggo3 has already been on the market for 5 years with no major design updates, …

The Chery A3CC has been in development for a long time, mostly due to its solid roof that folds away to turn itself into an open roofed cabriolet for those fun days down by the beach, or racing through the smog filled 40 degree streets of Beijing. According to Chery, the biggest barrier in the development of the A3CC was the folding roof, the first to be developed by a Chinese company so far.
The A3CC owes its sexy design to the Italian design house Bertone, who Chery have kept busy …

The Chinese government are big fans of turbo powered sedans, and why not? They are great for wafting from meeting to meeting to visiting the People and visiting orphanages and model work units alike, as long as there is enough leg room in the back, the price is right, and it comes in black the government will buy it.
The big winner in the government procurement lists have ultimately been the VAG group, their Audi A6 and VW Passat models have been major favorites of all levels of government for …

The Riich G3 is Chery’s fourth car in the brand new Riich line up, and was officially launched at the Beijing Auto Show earlier this year. The G3 is set to take on popular compact models such as the VW Lavida and the VW Bora models which have become popular due to their high tech equipment, fashionable design, and small engine displacement which meant lower sales tax brackets for consumers.
From the spy pictures it appears that the production G3 has undergone some minor changes from concept to production car, namely …

Chang’an are the kings of the bread van, or the mian bao che as it is known in China, in 2009 they sold their 1,000,000th Chang’an Star van which is pretty much a standard sight on rural and city roads alike.
The new van seems to have taken on some Japanese style somewhere in the design stage which has given it an unusual bulge in the headroom department.
Unusual bulges are nothing new to the bread van market, the Chery V2 version had its own strange growth for a while, until it …

Recently, Chery have been extra busy with expansion, and also building odd small cars. Here’s a media round up of what is actually happening at the Wuhu Wonder Company:
May 19, 2010 (China Knowledge) – Chery Automobile Co Ltd, the largest domestic car maker in China, Tuesday started constructing an equipment production base in Dongsheng District in Ordos, a city in the southwestern part of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
The base will cost RMB 20 billion. The project is scheduled to be completed during the 12th Five-Year …

Chery’s Riich brand was supposed to be Chery’s shot at a premium brand, however they appear to be aiming to water it down with some odd vehicles. The forth coming Chery Riich M2 is a two door city car that appears to have the looks of the original Chery QQ3 but with a Riich badge.
The Riich M2 is obviously aimed at being a 2 door city car with seating for just two. A future electric version is reportedly being planned by Chery, as one was on show at the Beijing …

For this years Beijing Auto Show, Chery wheeled out the current version of the Tiggo3 which is the same model that they’ve had in production since 2006. Their Italian partner, Dr, released a face lift version for the Italian market which was put into production for various markets within China, but the old reliable Tiggo was wheeled out out for the show and looked rather out of place against Chery’s latest offerings.
Whilst the Beijing Auto Show is in full swing, these photos of a facelift Tiggo emerged from Chery’s hometown …

GM are reportedly planning to launch a new concept car at this years Beijing Auto Show, the concept car first appeared in the US Patents Department and appears to follow Voltec stytling (aka, borrowed from the upcoming Chevrolet Volt). The lead designer on this vehicle is reprotedly, Bob Boniface, who was also the lead designer on the Chevrolet Volt.
Astute readers will remember that a small Chevrolet MPV was once spotted out testing in China, although since then we have not heard from it again.

Chery’s latest CVT gearbox finally rolled off the production line this weekend, which will ultimately give Chery a better product to offer than its currently bought in auto units.
The CVT gearbox is suitable for vehicles with displacements from 1.6 to 2.0L, and is expected to reach production levels of 50,000 vehicles per year, and the second stage will see production increased to 150,000 units per year.
Chery started development on CVT gearboxes in 2003, and is expected to become a major supplier of CVT gearboxes to the Chinese auto industry within …

The Chery QQ was Chery’s first ‘big’ car, it sold in the hundreds of thousands since its conception in 2003, the QQ may have been a Chevrolet Spark clone but that didn’t slow its sales figures down, in fact being mentioned in the same sentence as a world famous Chevrolet car probably boosted its sales figures. Chery probably understands that the game is coming to a close for the QQ, which was later the QQ3 when a sedan version named the QQ6 was launched, and thus a facelift has been …

A facelift version of the Chery Tiggo3 SUV will launch later this year with a plethora of new engines, including a 1.6T, a 1.8 naturally aspirated model, and a 2.0T model. The Tiggo SUV has already been on the market for several years where it has performed well against the ever growing onslaught of cheap Chinese SUV’s, the face lift comes just in time as both Geely and BYD are planning to launch their own SUVs which would take a big chunk out of the Tiggo’s sales.

A few years ago Chery wowed the world with its Shooting Brake concept car which was on show at the 2007 Shanghai Auto Show, this concept then disappeared from the public eye until yesterday when spy shots of a Chery model out road testing were posted onto the internet. The car is codenamed A01 within Chery, alongside A01A, and A01B and A101D which are set to be a three door hatch, a four door sedan, and a three door sports hatch. The below car clearly has some Chery A3 DNA …

Chery have produced some fantastic vehicles over the past few years, their Chery Tiggo SUV was unstoppable in the SUV market for a few years, the original Chery QQ is still a force to be reckoned with nearly a decade after it was originally launched, the Chery A3 sedan and hatch are prime example of a fantastically designed product that Chery can put together with the right help. Then of course there is the the Riich M5 sedan:
The Riich brand was supposed to be Chery’s shot at an upmarket brand, …

Chery’s massive growth from a small, techinically illegal backwater car maker to one of China’s fastest growing car makers is amazing, their rate of growth in terms of sales over the past 15 years has shown their determination to ‘make it big’ on a global scale. Today Chery produced car no 2,000,000, a Chery Reely X5 SUV. In 2007 they produced their one millionth car, and in just two years they are already on the two millionth, in another two years where will they be?
Not many car manufacturers in China …

Chery appears to be working hard on another small car to boost up its already full small car segment, judging by the wheel trims it could be another line up for the Riich car range which currently only has two small cars (the M1 and the X1) and is obviously ready for another.
Information about the car is still slim on the ground, but it is likely to get a showing at the Beijing Auto Show later next month.
Chery’s small car line up currently consists of the Chery Fulwin …

The Chery Fulwin hatchback, the sister car to the Fulwin sedan launched earlier today in Qingdao city. The hatchback is very competitively priced and will no doubt prove to be as popular as the Brilliance FRV hatch which is its biggest competitor.
The Fulwin hatch will have 1.5 ATECO engines from Chery’s own engine stable with the options of manual and an automatic gearbox.

Chery’s flagship X5 SUV which will be sold under the Reely sub brand is expected to launch this month on the 28th according to auto reports. The X5 recently took part in the Paris-Dakar rally where it did reasonably well for a first try at the terrain, and certainly proved its worth as an offroader.
Pricing is expected to start at a reasonable 159,800rmb for the base 2.0TCI version. Its the first time that this engine has been used in an SUV, whilst not being an absolute beast of an …

The Brilliance Coupe was one of the first truly desirable Chinese coupes to launch, it had a decent amount of poke from its 1.8 turbo engine but it looks like the long overdue Chery M14 is coming along to rain on its parade. The M14 is going to be renamed the Chery A3CC, and will be the sister sports model to the already outstanding looking Chery A3.
As with the A3 series, the A3CC was also designed by the famed Pininfarina of Italy. The real reasoning for employing an established design …