Last Updated on 22/08/2026 by Raj
Chery Tiggo 9: Super Hybrid
The 2025/2026 Chery Tiggo 9 is a Chinese SUV. Now becoming a popular name in Europe and Australia and giving top fight to other cars in same class, with its luxury feel, top notch tech and economy all in a afordable price tag. In this review discover about it’s interior, performance, advanced safety, comfort for family, and verdict.
Overview: Chery Tiggo 9
Want a car that can cheer up and make you happy. So the Chinese car maker Chery, they called themself ‘happy cars’ maker. The Chery Tiggo 9 might be able to cheer you up, the name of the brand is Chery which is comes from word ‘cheery’. The name of the car is Tiggo, a mix of 2 words ‘tiger’ and ‘go’ in Chinese.
The Chery Tiggo 9 the large 7 seat PHEV SUV with a price and equipment list that’s going to give a nightmare to the established European and Korean brands. Tiggo 9 is pitching itself as a family-SUV to rivals like the Skoda Kodiaq, Hyundai Santa Fe, Kia Sorento, VW Tayron, even Mazda CX-80 and Peugoet 5008.
It offers a big battery, turbo petrol and twin-motor plug-in hybrid power. All-wheel drive and a frankly luxury level of standard equipment as standard. The new Tiggo 9 looks great on paper, and considering the price, could it become a better alternative than its rivals? It’s still worth.
Design and Interior:
It has the road presence and stance of a big SUV. It’s stand at 4.8m long and 1.74m tall, with a clean and tidy design. It uses the same T1X platform which is used in other Chery, Omoda and Jaecoo cars. It stretches little bit, resulting in a significantly wider cabin than that other cars of same platform, and its PHEV drivetrain is also different from them.
The Chery Tiggo 9 comes with 3-motor, four-wheel-drive setup. Interior of this car is somewhat genuinely impressive and thoughtfully crafted, with careful additions of technology. The interior look is inspired from luxury European brands. You can feel it on the dashboard, all door panels, and seats are all crafted for a premium look. The big center console, the rotary dial in middle, and the metal-look in the air vents gives it European touch.
The cabin design is minimalist and small amount of buttons, and the materials are well plush, with good amount of soft-touch plastic on the dashboard and doors. While it’s not perfect though, the buttons and steering wheel are similar to that of smaller Chery cars. The vents have a plastic like feel with some scratchy plastics lower down, but in general quality is better than other cars and forgivable at this price point.
The front seats are very comfortable and big with four-way adjustable lumbar support for the driver and 12 ways electrically adjustable and 6 for the passenger. The driving position is excellent and helped by the electrically adjustable steering wheel and can be adjusted as much as anyone would like.
The seats are bit firmer, making them a little uncomfortable on longer drives, but for more comfort seats comes with reclining , heating, ventilation and independent climate controls. With the Tiggo 9, you also get LED lighting, 20-inch wheels, roof rails, a panoramic sunroof, power retracting door handles, heated and auto folding mirrors, and a power tailgate.
The Chery Tiggo 9 comes with a big 15.6-inch central screen with a crisp display which is bright, clear and responsive with fast processor. The screen also gets wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto and it also has most of the car’s controls, only handful of physical buttons are given for drive modes, air con and window control. So everything you want to adjust or change you have to do by the touchscreen.
Now this car also got Siri, with its command system and you can use it for other car functions and control like the map and navigation or music and light. Climate controls are changed by the display and placed well and you can access it on full-screen setup by simply swiping up from the bottom. And also you can adjust the dual-zone temperature adjustment, fan-speed, airflow controls, air ionisation, and seat heating, ventilation and massaging.
The display also controls the surround-view camera, auto parking with reverse tracking, and a 3D exterior view. There’s also an electronic owner’s manual onboard (more space in the glove box), and while it’s a lot of tech, most of it works well. Behind the steering wheel there’s a 10.25in digital instrument cluster. It’s also bright and clear as the infotainment system and controled by buttons on the steering wheel.
It can show sat-nav map, separate display for EV and petrol ranges with odometer readings for the different modes. Speed is permanently located on the screen, but sometimes it can be blocked by the steering wheel rim, so the head-up display does the job done.
Gear selector is located on the right side of the steering column with wipers and blinkers lever on the left and a traditional dial for the headlights. There’s loads of space in the front with big central storage space, either with a cubby, a couple of cupholders and a storage tray, with 50W wireless phone charger.
The second row is wide and enough for adults to fit in the rear with good amount of head and leg room, and the seats are also have heating and ventilation functions with USB-A and USB-C ports.
The Sony sound system even includes head restraint speakers, and large panoramic sunroof is electrically operated, and rear window comes with shades, and large door bins give plenty of space, and rear directional air vents. The third row should be good for small children and not comfortable for adults and boot space ranges from 143 litres but lowering the seat backs does open up 819L.
Key highlights:
20-inch alloy wheels.
Panoramic sunroof with powered sunshade and power tailgate.
Heated, power-folding exterior mirrors.
Automatic LED headlights – projector-type, automatic high beam.
Acoustic glass for the door and wind screen.
Puddle lights.
Proximity entry and start.
360-degree surround view camera with automatic parking assistant.
6-way power front seats with thigh support extension, heating, Ventilation and Massage.
Heated and ventilated second-row seats.
Power tilt and telescopic steering wheel adjustment with heated function.
10.25-inch driver instrument cluster and 15.6-inch infotainment touchscreen.
14-speaker Sony Sound System incl. 2 speakers in driver’s head restraint.
Head-up display (HUD), and Satellite navigation.
Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.
50W wireless phone charger.
Intelligent Voice Command.
Color selectable ambient lighting.
Dual-zone climate control with second row air vent.
Chery Tiggo 9 Safety Features :
The Chery Tiggo 9 has 10 airbags as standard including driver, passenger, front-centre, designed to stop the driver and passenger impact from each other. Also driver’s knee, middle-row side, and curtain coverage and its body use a high strength and hot-formed steel.
It includes a full suite of active safety tech, including Autonomous Emergency Braking, driver monitoring camera system, lane departure warning, traffic-jam assist, blind-spot detection, rear cross alert, emergency lane keeping assistance and adaptive cruise control.
safety equipment :
- Autonomous emergency braking
- Adaptive cruise control
- Blind-spot monitoring
- Driver monitoring system
- Lane-keep assist
- Emergency lane-keep assist
- Rear cross-traffic assist
- Safe exit warning
- Traffic Jam Assist
- Surround-view camera
- Front, rear and side parking sensors.
Drivetrain and Performance:
There is just one powertrain option for this car a plug-in hybrid that consists of 1.5-litre turbo petrol engine with twin electric motors. What Chery calls a “Super Hybrid” system with three-speed dedicated hybrid transmission, combines output is 428hp and 580Nm of torque.
Which is more than enough for a family SUV at this price. The system is designed to save some amount of the battery so that at all times, after it reaches more near 20 per cent charge. It’s never run out of electric vehicle charge. Chery Tiggo 9 it’s not the fastest car in the world, and it gathers speed in a leaner way and can do from 0-60 in a approx 5.4 seconds. Which is decant for a SUV of this size.
The battery pack for the PHEV system is super efficient at 34 kWh. It is big plug-in hybrid system and can cover 91 miles in electric-only driving. With a 70-litre fuel tank and this amount of electric only range give total driving range beyond 1200 km. All that power makes its way to the wheel via a three-speed dedicated hybrid transmission and all-wheel system.
There’s a 175kW unit on the rear axle, and two more motors one at the front axle and another motor is integrated into transmission. The power delivery is smooth and seamless. The electric motor give the initial push and the petrol unit joins quietly. There are 6 driving modes : Eco, Normal, Sport, Snow, Sand and Off-Road modes. The torque and the way the all-wheel drive system shuffles.
It and the transitions between engine and electric power are smooth and quiet. Charging capability and speed are impresive a DC charging tops out at 71kW, top up 30-to-80% charge in around 18 minutes. And full charge from empty takes about five hours and vehicle-to-load functionality is provided allowing to power external equipment when you need.
Drive and Handaling:
The Chery Tiggo 9 is a tall and big SUV nearly 2tons so it’s not very agile but it can lean a bit in corners. It’s hardly as some rivels. The biggest issue is its steering; it’s very light and made for Comfort not for sport drive, yet sport mode gives some mass and feel. In either mode, needs significant amount of steering input before the wheels respond.
It makes driving the car on a twisty road trickier bit dull. The car is not trying to be a driver’s car. It’s built for calm, composed, family and daily drive SUV. Steering is light and accurate, just short on feedback. The car is easy to drive in normal condition for its size and keep the car straight on the motorway, without constant corrections.
The suspensions are steel coils and conventional dampers, with independent suspension all round. Chery claims to have given it specific tuning for off road riding. That would seem they did a good job it retains decent outright body control, balanced grip and predictable and secure handling.
Ride quality is good, it runs on its 20-inch wheels, and can handel poor surfaces without any problem. There is a relaxed driving feel to the way it drives particularly on motorways and body control is good enough. Unfortunately this car has some weakness, there’s a constant bump from the suspension.It makes jostle around in your seat some time. It’s ride isolation road noise is typically filter in the cabin in smooth asphalt.
Traction and road control are strong from the standard all-wheel drive system and big tyres, and the car feels secure even in wet conditions. Brakes are good and have a natural-feeling pedal despite its regeneration. The engine works seamlessly with motors and super smooth when it’s running and remains quiet under hard acceleration.
The hybrid system itself feels very well paired. It cuts the electric power silently and brings the petrol engine in smoothly when required and never lacks in power and acceleration when you need. Despite its massive power output. Its delivers this power in a linear way electric drive handles low-speed and works perfectly.
Capablity: Chery Tiggo 9
Overall, if you value comfort, refinement and good luxury feel. The Chery Tiggo 9 can deliver comfortable blend of all and it feel more mature and polished than you might expect. There are heated and ventilated leather seats front and rear side, a powered tailgate, 360-degree camera that offer good vision clarity and parking control automatic.
You get a 14-speaker Sony system which sounds fantastic. There’s also a panoramic glass roof. A massive 15.6-inch central touchscreen with lightning-quick response and a 10.25-inch driver’s display. Chery Tiggo 9 could become useful family SUV with it’s loads of storage areas. In the front and back with all seven seats there’s a fairly 143-litre boot but with the third-row down you’ll get 819 liters.
Towing capacity stands at a fairly average 1,500kg more than enough. It feels and drives like an EV which is a surprise despite its a PHEV, 34kWh battery gives 91 miles on electric only range and the powertrain prefers electric-only in all of its modes, so there’s always smooth power available. The petrol engine only takes place when it is charging the battery or for extra power.
This is big SUV, so parking it requires a bit of care. Even though the steering is light and responsive the turning circle is remains at 11.2 meters. Side windows are quite large. You get a fully-featured camera makes parking smooth. Front and rear parking sensors are good and the image quality on the camera is sharp with Automatic Parking Assistance is also available.
Pricing:
Chery Tiggo 9 is now available in more than 60 countries worldwide. And Chery constantly increasing its dear network at a rapid speed. Price tag is far lower than any of its competitors in any region and reasonable despite. It a seven seater PHEV large SUV and offers good amount of tech and luxury feel. In Austrilia it’s start at $59,990 and for Europe and UK its £43,105
Pros and Cons:
Pros:
Loaded with standard equipment and the list is long with a massive amount of kit to upgrade.
Impressively refined, quick and powerful setup.
Smooth, quiet hybrid system and long electric-only range and petrol engine is also quiet when it’s running.
High-quality feel, comfortable massaging seats, spacious in the second row, plenty of storage space.
Good visibility and smooth refined ride soft but well controlled.
Body control is minimum for a big, heavy car.
Technology is easy to get used after some time.
Chery Tiggo 9 Priced is very sharp for a big loaded SUV.
Cons:
Tight third row seating and no third-row airbag coverage.
Third row most suited to kids and max boot in five-seat mode.
Dull rather than sporty and fidgety ride.
Shiny cheap plastic evident and flimsy fittings doesn’t seem like great quality.
Massive size might make it hard to maneover in tight space.
Fuel economy good in the free way but low fuel economy in the city ride.
Too much reliance on a touchscreen with lack of physical buttons and some few poorly executed features
Artificial steering feel and lifeless brakes.
Chery Tiggo 9 Brand unknown in some region and resale values are hard to predict.
Verdict:
If you want a big, plush, seven-seat plug-in hybrid SUV that is high on comfort, technology and doesn’t break your bank. The Chery Tiggo 9 could be an option despite being a new name. It offers a well-designed and premium interior. Decent build quality with an efficient plug-in hybrid system that gives good electric range. And this car is good for family buyers who want a calm, comfortable and easy-going big SUV.
Who need to use all seven seats regularly might be a serious deal-breaker but if you not thinking about using third-row space all the time and only used it as a backup. The Chery Tiggo 9 might be a strong option. Price is decent for a large hybrid SUV with enormous EV range and loads of standard technology and equipment and most importantly.
It feels decently engineered and thoughtfully tuned. But without a strong brand identity. It is going to be hard for anyone to spend that amount of money on this car. No matter how much it offers where other rivels are more polished and have a reputable brand identity.
