Chery Tiggo 7 Review & Prices

The Tiggo 7 is a budget SUV from the Chinese car brand Chery. It comes with a choice of petrol or plug-in hybrid engines, loads of standard equipment and a rather posher and roomier interior than you’d expect - for a price tag that undercuts many cramped European hatchbacks. For that reason, it’s a great buy, as long as you’re not too worried about carving up a back road and as long as you don’t get the thirsty petrol model.

Chery is the sister company of Omoda and Jaecoo - so the Chery Tiggo 7 shares quite a lot of its mechanical bits with the Omoda 5 and the popular Jaecoo 7. If you think of them as siblings, the Omoda is the cool, stylish one, the Jaecoo is the one that goes hiking and rock-climbing on the weekends, and the Chery is the sensible sibling with a good job and a nice four-bedroom house in the suburbs.

The Tiggo 7 is also very closely related to the Chery Tiggo 8 - our Hybrid Hero and overall Car of the Year winner in the 2026 Carwow Car of the Year Awards.

As a largish, five-seater SUV, it’s a natural alternative to the Dacia Bigster, the Nissan Qashqai, the BYD Seal U and the MG HS. Chery’s USP with the Tiggo is the extensive list of standard equipment, the low price tag, and the availability of a plug-in hybrid engine.

The Tiggo 7’s styling is a little less generic and a little more European than the likes of BYD or MG. There’s a bold grille at the front with the Chery logo, flanked by blacked-out air intakes and neat LED headlights. At the rear, there’s the ever-ubiquitous LED lightbar, but the lighting pattern itself is quite intricate and distinctive.

The interior feels very familiar, like a pastiche of design ideas from other car brands. The twin displays for infotainment and driver information look very much like a Mercedes A-Class, the separate air-con controls could be straight from a Nissan Ariya - but material choice and build quality is generally really impressive considering this car’s price tag.

It’s also super-roomy. The driver’s seat is comfy and electrically-adjustable, while back-seat passengers have room to stretch out thanks to the flat floor, good kneeroom and high roofline.

The boot is a good size too, though you lose a bit of space in the plug-in hybrid to accommodate the large battery. Certain types of families will also be disappointed to find that the Tiggo 7’s towing capacity won’t handle a caravan.

Equipment levels are super-generous. The petrol Tiggo 7’s sub-£25k starting price barely buys you a mid-spec Volkswagen Polo - yet you get LED lights, wireless smartphone connectivity, dual-zone climate control and plenty else besides. The top-spec trim has some really posh features, such as the panoramic roof or 360-degree cameras, and it’s not much more expensive.

You’ll want to spend a bit more than the starting price, though, as the entry-level petrol engine is thirsty and noisy. It’s better by far to opt for the so-called ‘Super Hybrid’ - a really impressive plug-in hybrid system with a big battery that seriously lowers the Tiggo 7’s running costs whether you charge it up or not.

Thus equipped, the Chery Tiggo 7 is a very comfortable motorway cruiser - quiet, powerful enough and pretty relaxing. However, it’s not much fun on a twisting road. The steering is oddly weighted, as if the way it responds isn’t very predictable, and the soft suspension wallows over bumps and leans in the bends.

If you’re not looking for your family SUV to be a thrill-a-minute, though, then the Chery Tiggo 7 makes a very compelling alternative to more established alternatives - and for much less money than most.

If you’re interested, then check out our latest Chery Tiggo 7 deals here. You can also get a great price if you’re looking to lease a Chery Tiggo 7, or find great used Chery models for sale right here on Carwow. And remember that when the time comes to sell your old car, Carwow can help with that too.

The Tiggo 7 has a really straightforward trim structure. The petrol car starts from a fiver under £25,000, the plug-in hybrid from just under £30,000 - and in both cases, you can add an extra £3,000 for the posh Summit trim. Other than that, the only other extra is paint.

Even the basic Aspire trim comes well-equipped. LED lights all-round plus 18-inch alloy wheels means it looks smart, while inside you get a powered driver’s seat, two 12.3-inch displays, dual-zone climate control, artificial leather upholstery, wireless smartphone connectivity and a rear-view camera.

Step up to Summit trim and you get 19-inch wheels, a powered tailgate, a powered passenger seat, Sony audio system, heated and ventilated front seats and an all-round camera system.

That price tag is pretty remarkable. The petrol model undercuts even the Dacia Bigster or MG HS, and the plug-in hybrid does the same for the HS PHEV and the BYD Seal U DM-i.

The Chery Tiggo 7 won’t set a keen driver’s heart alight, but it’s comfortable on the motorway and easy to drive around town - which matters more

In town

The Tiggo 7 is a similar size to the Nissan Qashqai and Dacia Bigster, so it can feel a touch unwieldy in tight car parks or when parallel parking - but generally, it’s pretty easy to drive around town. Visibility out of the front is decent, and the standard rear-view camera helps judge the back - which is useful as the rear window is very narrow with a comically tiny rear wiper.

The posher camera system of Summit models makes it really easy to avoid nicking the alloys on kerbs, too.

Around town the plug-in hybrid feels serene. Even if you don’t charge it up, the engine is extremely unobtrusive and the drive is always electric, so the delivery of power is always smooth, seamless and predictable. The soft suspension copes pretty well over speed bumps, too, though if you get the pitter-patter of an uneven surface that does sometimes translate into the inside of the car.

On the motorway

Both engines have enough power to get up to speed easily but once again it’s the PHEV that’s the pick of the range thanks to its extra grunt and smooth operation. The petrol engine feels quite coarse and the gearbox can be a little dim-witted under hard acceleration.

Setting the hybrid to ‘Smart’ mode means it’ll maintain battery levels at 20% - keeping enough in reserve that you won’t lose power on long inclines or when you floor it, and using the engine to charge it back up under periods of lighter load. It works very well. Wind and road noise are a lot more noticeable than the engine, though.

The Tiggo 7’s suspension copes well with motorway rumbles and expansion joints, though it can feel a bit floaty which might make some occupants a bit carsick. The driver assistance tech is a bit of a mixed bag - we found the adaptive cruise control functioned pretty well, but the system that monitors the driver’s attention was too willing to shout at us for momentary dips into the touchscreen system.

On a twisty road

This is where the Tiggo 7 falls a bit flat, as it’s really not very pleasant to hustle down a twisty road. The suspension never really settles down, and imperfections are transmitted through the steering wheel too easily for comfort. The steering is also super-light, and you don’t really have any concept of which way the front wheels are pointing, so you find yourself doing lots of mid-corner adjustments. A Dacia Bigster or Nissan Qashqai both feel much more planted and reassuring in the bends.

A really comfy, spacious back seat, but boot space is only average

It’s pretty comfortable up front in the Chery Tiggo 7. The driver’s seat adjusts electrically on all models, and so does the passenger’s on the top-spec car - though it’s annoying that the passenger can’t adjust for height, as you do feel a bit perched.

Storage is also slightly lacking. There’s a wireless phone charging pad, a pair of cupholders and a decent-sized under-armrest cubby, but the door bins are too small for a big water bottle, the glovebox is a bit narrow and the area under the centre console is awkward to access. A sleeker, column-mounted gearshifter would have cleared a bit of space for an extra compartment in which to sling wallets, keys and the like.

Space in the back seats

Rear occupants really don’t have much to complain about in the Chery Tiggo 7. There’s plenty of kneeroom and headroom, even with the panoramic sunroof of the top-spec car. All models get a completely flat floor, too, so there’s no central tunnel to get in the way of your feet.

A fold-down centre armrest contains a pair of cupholders, while in the middle you’ll find one USB-A and one USB-C port for charging gadgets. ISOFIX points are easy to access and there’s space for even a bulky rear-facing child seat.

Boot space

The Tiggo 7’s boot isn’t the largest - its 565-litre capacity beats out the 505 litres of the Nissan Qashqai but is soundly trounced by the 600-litre-plus Dacia Bigster. The plug-in hybrid Tiggo 7 loses a lot of capacity, too, dropping to just 484 litres. That’s still much bigger than the 425-litre BYD Seal U, but it’s beaten by the plug-in hybrid MG HS.

There’s space under the floor to store your cables, which is useful, and the seats fold nice and flat though you do have to walk round to each side to do so.

A good-quality dashboard marred by some usability issues

For the price, the Chery Tiggo 7’s interior looks very classy. It contrasts with the rugged-but-workmanlike Dacia Bigster and leans in the same direction as the MG HS, copying design features from much posher cars and recreating them pretty successfully.

You get twin 12.3-inch displays under a single sheet of glass, like Mercedes puts in the A-Class. There’s a hint of Mercedes in the shiny fake carbonfibre trim running across the dashboard, too. The touch-sensitive air conditioning controls look like those from a Nissan Ariya, while the gear selector feels very Audi. It all feels very good for the price, though, and you’ll find many far cheaper plastics on cars that cost a whole lot more to buy.

The twin screens are a mixed bag. The driver’s display pushes the important info off to the sides - there’s no setting to get your speed front and centre - and the trip computer only displays data for the last 50 miles, which is very irritating.

The central screen is bright and thanks to a powerful processor, very responsive, but there are a few too many button presses to get to where you need to be. A dedicated ‘Home’ button would make it much easier to jump out of your smartphone connection, for example, though it’s good that the Tiggo 7 has a bank of separate climate controls so at least those aren’t operated through the screen.

Wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto both feature, and work well. The Sony stereo on top-spec cars also sounds pretty good, which is a nice bonus.

There are two engine options for the Tiggo 7. The base model gets a 1.6-litre, 147hp petrol engine. We’ve not driven this engine in the Tiggo 7 yet but have experienced it in the Jaecoo 7 and Omoda 5, where we’ve found it noisy, sluggish and very thirsty (around 32mpg in the real world vs 40.5mpg officially). It’s best avoided.

The plug-in hybrid, on the other hand, is an excellent option. It pairs a 1.5-litre petrol engine with a large battery and electric motor. Though the engine can drive the wheels directly, it rarely does, and so for the most part the Tiggo 7 drives like an electric car with smooth, instant responses.

You get a claimed 56 miles of electric range, which isn’t quite as good as the MG HS PHEV but is still pretty impressive. And if you flick the car into ‘Smart’ mode, it’ll reserve about 20% of the battery’s charge, meaning it acts like a proper self-charging hybrid rather than a petrol car lugging around a big, useless battery and motor. In this guise we saw over 50mpg on a long journey, which is really good for a heavy, plug-in hybrid SUV. Thanks to the Tiggo 7’s big fuel tank an overall driving range of more than 700 miles should be possible.

The PHEV Tiggo 7 is by far the better option as a company car thanks to its super-low emissions, and even if you go for the very top-spec car you won’t come close to troubling the threshold for the expensive car supplement on your yearly road tax.

The Chery Tiggo 7 was rated five out of five stars by the safety experts at Euro NCAP. It initially scored four stars after an airbag deployed incorrectly, but Chery addressed this issue which bumped it up to full marks. It scored particularly highly for child occupant protection, which is reassuring news for families.

There’s certainly a good chunk of safety equipment available, and useful extras like LED headlights on all models and a surround-view camera are good additions for real-world safety.

Chery is one of China’s largest car producers and is hitting Europe hard with three brands launched so far - so even though it’s a new brand, you don’t need to worry that you’ll be left high and dry if the company fizzles out. A seven-year, 100,000-mile warranty is also pretty reassuring.

The company is too new to have made it into the Driver Power survey yet, but judging on anecdotal evidence from the Jaecoo and Omoda owner clubs and forums, there are still plenty of teething problems in terms of software, dealer service and parts availability, which is a shame.