Chery UK: Tiggo 7 and Tiggo 8 plug-in hybrids, prices and who makes them

Chery is a Chinese carmaker from Wuhu that has sold cars in the UK since September 2025, and its Tiggo 7 Super Hybrid plug-in hybrid starts at £29,995, with the seven-seat Tiggo 8 Super Hybrid from £33,545 in November 2026. On published reviews and a five-star Euro NCAP rating it is a sound value choice for families who can charge at home, as long as you accept a young brand with no long-term UK track record; our Chery Tiggo 7 and Tiggo 8 review has the full verdict.

Who makes Chery cars and who owns the brand?

Chery Automobile Co., Ltd. makes them. The company was founded in 1997 by Wuhu government officials and is headquartered in Wuhu, in China’s Anhui province (Wikipedia). It listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 25 September 2025, and after the listing Anhui provincial and Wuhu city government bodies held about 36% of the shares between them. Chery has no ownership link with Toyota.

Chery is also the parent of Omoda and Jaecoo, which are sold through their own showrooms in the UK. If you are comparing the group’s badges, our Jaecoo brand guide covers the Jaecoo 7, which Auto Express reported was the UK’s best-selling car in September 2026. Autotrader reported that Chery has built more than 15 million cars and employs more than 80,000 people.

Where are Chery cars built, and how long has Chery been in the UK?

Every Chery sold in Britain is imported. Chery UK does not say which plant builds its UK cars, but cinch reports that most Chery cars come from the firm’s Chinese factories. A non-binding agreement with Nissan to study building Chery-group cars at Sunderland from Nissan’s 2027 financial year has named no model yet; we cover it in our report on Chery’s Sunderland and Millbrook plans.

The brand arrived in summer 2025. Deliveries of the Tiggo 7 and Tiggo 8 began in early September 2025, according to Carwow, which makes Chery about 14 months old in the UK. Since then it has added the Tiggo 9 and Tiggo 4, and UK buyers registered 37,071 Cherys in the first ten months of 2026, a 2.0% share of the market, according to SMMT figures. October alone brought 3,707.

Every Chery model on sale: prices and range

Chery sells four models in the UK, all SUVs: the Tiggo 4 hybrid, the Tiggo 7 and Tiggo 8 as petrol or plug-in hybrid, and the Tiggo 9 plug-in hybrid. Our list of every car we cover puts them alongside their rivals. The table below shows the plug-in hybrid Tiggo 7 and Tiggo 8, the two models in our spec dataset.

Model and trim	List price (Nov 2026)	Battery	Electric range (WLTP)	AC charging	DC charging	Boot	Seats
Tiggo 7 Super Hybrid Aspire	£29,995	18.4 kWh	56 miles	6.6 kW	40 kW	565 litres	5
Tiggo 7 Super Hybrid Summit	£32,995	18.4 kWh	56 miles	6.6 kW	40 kW	not listed	5
Tiggo 8 Super Hybrid Aspire	£33,545	18.4 kWh	56 miles	6.6 kW	40 kW	117 litres	7
Tiggo 8 Super Hybrid Summit	£36,545	18.4 kWh	56 miles	6.6 kW	40 kW	117 litres	7

Tiggo 7. The five-seat Tiggo 7 is a family SUV, and the plug-in hybrid pairs a 1.5-litre turbo petrol engine with an electric motor for 150 kW (204PS) and 0 to 62mph in 8.5 seconds. The petrol version costs £24,995 in Aspire trim and £27,995 as a Summit, Carwow lists. Our Tiggo 7 and Tiggo 8 price and trim guide breaks down every version.

Tiggo 8. The Tiggo 8 is a longer seven-seat version with the same plug-in hybrid system, at £33,545 for the Aspire and £36,545 for the Summit. The petrol model starts at £28,545. The boot holds 117 litres with all seven seats up, 494 litres with the third row folded and 1,930 litres with both rows down, Chery says. For other three-row cars, see our ranking of seven-seat electric cars.

Tiggo 9. The flagship seven-seater comes in one Summit trim with four-wheel drive, listed at £43,105 by Carwow in March 2026, and a 34.4 kWh battery that Chery rates at 87 miles of electric range. Carwow’s reviewers praised its hybrid system but concluded that the way it drives does not justify the price.

Tiggo 4. The smallest Chery is a hybrid that Chery lists as an HEV rather than a plug-in hybrid, with a 1.83 kWh battery. It costs from £19,995, or £21,995 as a Summit, What Car? reported in March 2026.

Summit trims add a 540-degree camera, a panoramic sunroof and wireless phone charging, according to Chery. Dealers discount heavily: Carwow reports an average saving of £4,715 off a Tiggo 7 and £4,875 off a Tiggo 8 through its network, which is one reason these cars look cheap.

Chery’s plug-in hybrids: what they cost to charge

The Tiggo 7 and Tiggo 8 Super Hybrid are plug-in hybrids with 56 miles of official electric range from an 18.4 kWh battery. Chery does not say how much of that battery is usable, so our figures use the full 18.4 kWh, divide the cost of filling it by the 56-mile WLTP range and ignore charging losses, as set out in our methodology.

EV Compared calculation	Home, 6.5p/kWh	Rapid charger, 82p/kWh
Cost of a full charge	£1.20	£15.09
Cost per electric mile	2.1p	26.9p

The home rate is Intelligent Octopus Go’s 6.5p/kWh off-peak price; the rapid rate is Zapmap’s October 2026 average. On a 7 kW wallbox the cars charge at their 6.6 kW limit, which takes about 2.8 hours from empty, so an overnight top-up is easy. Best Chargers covers which home charger to fit. Chery quotes about 20 minutes for 30 to 80% on a DC charger, though at more than 12 times the home cost per mile, public charging makes little sense for a plug-in hybrid.

On list price per mile of electric range, the Tiggo 7 Aspire works out at £536 and the Tiggo 8 Aspire at £599, on our sums. Our range and charging guide covers real-world figures.

Should you go fully electric instead?

If you can charge at home and most of your journeys are local, a fully electric SUV is worth pricing first. No Chery qualifies for the Electric Car Grant: government rules require zero tailpipe CO2, a list price of £37,000 or less and at least 100 miles of electric range (GOV.UK). Chery sells no fully electric car under its own badge in the UK; the group’s electric models carry other names, such as the E5 in our Omoda brand guide.

A plug-in hybrid suits you if you cannot charge on long trips, or do regular long motorway runs. It only saves money if you plug it in: driven on petrol, it is a heavy petrol SUV. Carwow’s testers recorded over 50mpg on a long journey in the Tiggo 7’s Smart mode.

Warranty, dealers and servicing

Every new Chery has a 7-year or 100,000-mile warranty, with the high-voltage battery covered for 8 years or 100,000 miles and restored if a manufacturing defect drops it below 70% of its original capacity, Chery UK says. Roadside assistance runs for a year and renews at each scheduled service for up to seven years.

Brand	Car warranty	Battery warranty
Chery	7 years or 100,000 miles	8 years or 100,000 miles
BYD	6 years or 93,750 miles	8 years or 125,000 miles
MG	7 years or 80,000 miles	8 years or 100,000 miles

Sources: Chery UK and BYD UK, checked November 2026; MG via Motorpoint, February 2025.

Chery’s network reached 100 UK showrooms in October 2026, Auto Express reported on 7 October, up from 25 at launch in August 2025, according to Autotrader. These are separate from Omoda and Jaecoo dealers. Chery’s own Approved Used scheme, launched the same month, gives a used car at least two years’ warranty, a 120-plus point inspection and, for Super Hybrid models, a certificate guaranteeing at least 90% battery health. Any remaining new-car warranty transfers with the car, but it needs a full Chery service history.

Is the Chery Tiggo 7 safe?

Yes: Euro NCAP rates the Tiggo 7 and Tiggo 8 at five stars. Both were first given four stars in July 2025 because the side curtain airbag deployed incorrectly and left rear passengers without full protection. Chery fixed the manufacturing fault and Euro NCAP upgraded both cars on 15 October 2025.

Euro NCAP, 15 October 2025	Stars	Adult occupant	Child occupant	Vulnerable road users	Safety assist
Tiggo 7 and Tiggo 8	5	82%	85%	80%	78%

The Tiggo 8’s rating is based on the Tiggo 7 test, with extra checks on the third row. Euro NCAP also noted that the driver’s knee airbag did not deploy properly in the frontal offset test, so protection for that leg was rated weak.

Reliability and what owners report

There is no long-term UK reliability data for Chery yet, because the first cars are only 14 months old. Cinch notes UK data is limited for the brand, and resale values are equally untested: no Chery has completed a three-year finance cycle here. Heavy discounting on new cars can pull used values down, which our guide to how cars hold their value explains.

On published reviews, Carwow’s testers rate the Tiggo 7 plug-in hybrid as excellent, roomy and quiet on the motorway, but find the infotainment awkward and the car dull on twisting roads. They recommend avoiding the petrol engine, which they describe as noisy and thirsty. The Tiggo 8 won Carwow’s Hybrid Hero award in 2026, though its reviewers criticised its driving and its small seven-seat boot. EV Compared has not driven these cars; our view rests on this published data.

What is coming next?

Auto Express reported on 27 October 2026 that a revised Tiggo 7 has a new interior and a 505-litre boot, and Chery says its Super Hybrid version will gain scheduled charging for off-peak tariffs. Chery has not given a UK date or price. It will be sold alongside a more rugged Tiggo 7X. No other UK launch date has been confirmed.

Should you buy a Chery yet?

A Chery suits a family that wants a lot of space and equipment for the money, can charge at home, and plans to keep the car for most of its 7-year warranty. The Tiggo 7 Super Hybrid is the pick for five people; the Tiggo 8 makes sense only if you need the third row occasionally, since the boot with seven seats up is small.

It suits you less if you change cars every three years, because nobody yet knows what a used Chery will be worth. It also does not suit anyone who wants a fully electric car or the Electric Car Grant. The real risks are a young dealer network, an untested resale market and no long-term reliability record. Against them sit a five-star Euro NCAP rating, a warranty longer than BYD’s and keen list prices before any dealer discount.