Chery’s native best-selling Tiggo 4 Professional has acquired a well timed replace to maintain it on the radars of value-focused patrons.

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- Value: R415 900
- 0 to 100 km/h: 9.86 seconds
- High pace: 180 km/h
- Energy: 108 kW @ 5 500 – 6 000
- Torque: 210 N.m @ 1 750 – 5 000 r/min CAR
- Gasoline index: 8.04 L/100km
- CO₂: 162 g/km
In 2021, the Tiggo 4 Professional was the automobile that launched the South African shopping for public to a reinvigorated Chery model. Three years on, along with its equally packaged Haval Jolion compatriot, the smallest member of an ever-expanding portfolio of Tiggo-branded SUVs continues to guide the rise within the recognition (and native market share) of Chinese language-sourced cars. Vastly improved wares in contrast with what was beforehand accessible, a robust worth proposition stays on the coronary heart of the Tiggo 4 Professional; affordability that few of the established gamers in our market can match.
Additionally noteworthy, and troublesome to duplicate, is the speed of improvement and innovation that fast-learning Chinese language manufacturers like Chery are able to. This adaptability has, for instance, realised no fewer than three vital updates to the Tiggo 4 Professional vary since its introduction. The most recent of those goals to rectify one of many essential criticisms levelled at this in any other case spectacular package deal (and different merchandise from this secure), particularly that of gas effectivity.
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Supplied in LiT and range-topping Elite specification (examined right here), Tiggo 4 Professional fashions fitted with a turbocharged 1.5-litre engine are actually accessible with a dual-clutch transmission. Chery claims this gearbox lowers gas consumption by “near 1.6 L/100 km, relying on the driving model,” in contrast with these derivatives nonetheless fitted with a constantly variable transmission (CVT).


As a reminder, our street check of the 1.5T Elite CVT in June 2022 noticed the Chery return a comparatively disappointing (for a automobile on this phase) determine of 9.2 L/100 km on our standardised gas economic system check route. Along with an altogether extra refined corresponding driving expertise, introducing a seven-speed DCT transmission to an engine delivering an unchanged 108 kW and 210 N.m of torque lowered this determine to eight.7 L/100 km. In real-world phrases, this provides round 30 kilometres of vary per 51-litre tank of unleaded.
The slick workings of a dual-clutch transmission have additionally helped to shave 0.87 seconds off of the 1.5T Tiggo’s examined 0-100 km/h dash time in contrast with the beforehand examined CVT unit; reducing this determine to beneath 10 seconds.
Chery South Africa additionally used the introduction of this new transmission choice to replace the flagship Tiggo 4 Professional’s inside. The secondary local weather management show from the Tiggo 7 has been added, and a brand new higher-resolution 10.25-inch infotainment show incorporates offline navigation and the power to pair an iPhone or Android-based smartphone. A useful out-of-sight storage space beneath the centre console performs host to a 15W wi-fi charging dock.
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This extra specification provides to the lengthy checklist of nice-to-have objects that proceed to make the Tiggo 4 Professional an attractive possession proposition. In Elite trim this contains 17-inch alloy wheels, LED headlamps, keyless entry and ignition, puddle lights, a sunroof, leather-based upholstery, inside ambient lighting, dual-zone local weather management and digital instrumentation. Customary security techniques embody tyre stress monitoring, stability management, hill-decent management and 6 airbags.


From an upright driving place, two bugbears in the best way the Tiggo 4 Professional drives stay. This features a obscure and lifeless electrically assisted energy steering setup requiring small, fixed corrections at cruising speeds and an excessively delicate throttle pedal that may make low-speed manoeuvres a bit lurchy till one adapts to its calibration. The light-weight steering does go some solution to making the Chery straightforward to pilot round city, whereas a thought-about remap of the throttle setup to make it extra progressive would enhance each the driving expertise, and in the end assist gas consumption.
The Tiggo 4’s cabin provides commendable isolation from wind and street noise, and experience high quality is sweet regardless of the flagship’s mannequin’s giant wheel dimension. This bodes nicely for the plumper 16-inch objects fitted to the LiT by-product.
The Chery’s 264-litre baggage house is among the many most beneficiant on this phase.
Sharing its modular T1X platform (co-developed by JLR) with the Tiggo 7 package deal, the Tiggo 4 Professional provides a plucky, purposeful stance. Add 180 mm price of floor clearance, a chrome-finished grille, pink exterior trim highlights and matching color brake callipers, along with a pretend bash plate, rear diffuser and roof rails and it’s straightforward to grasp why the smallest member of the Tiggo household continues to search out favour in our market (Chery bought 1 172 items in June 2024).



Whether or not for a claimed give attention to buyer suggestions or just for the evolution of its wares, Chery’s capacity to rapidly adapt and modify its native providing – together with providing a very completely different transmission kind – is spectacular.
The Tiggo 4 Professional remains to be not probably the most polished product in its phase – and its Tiggo 7 and Tiggo 8 siblings really feel like they’re a technology forward when it comes to total execution – but, due to a compelling asking worth and commonplace specification most rival manufacturers can not match, the smallest Chery stays inconceivable to disregard.
Discover the complete function within the September problem of CAR Journal.
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