Chery Tiggo 8 Pro review and buyer’s guide

 

Chery Tiggo 8 Pro might be a mouthful to say, but it’s a large family SUV offering remarkable value, with 7 seats and good fuel economy claims. Let’s see if it’s too good to be true.

 
 

The Chery Tiggo 8 is a large SUV with budget-conscious families in mind who need lots of seats and a small price to pay for entry-level luxury.

But we need to investigate whether a compelling price range is actually just low-quality disguised as a bargain. We’ve had the Chery brand in Australia before, and it didn’t go well. A lot has changed in 15 years, however.

The Chinese brands are coming for conventional Japanese and Korean sales at an alarming rate (for them), which presents an opportunity to get your hands on some very affordably-priced new cars in 2026.

The Chery Tiggo 8 is one of the contenders you might consider along with the likes of a Hyundai Santa Fe, Kia Sorento, Mazda CX-80, the Toyota Kluger and to some extent the Mitsubishi Outlander 7-seater.

But it does come in two distinct flavours: the combustion-only variants, or the ‘super hybrid’. Now, both contain the two model grades, either ‘Urban’ or ‘Ultimate’, but the equipment levels vary between them. Meaning, what’s standard on the combustion-only Urban base model is not the same on the super hybrid ‘Urban’.

 

Sales

If we look at the current sales trajectories, there’s a trend happening where, despite our modest annual market sales of about 1.1 million new cars, these emerging brands like Chery and BYD, along with now-established GWM, MG and LDV, are pinching sales from the big players.

Toyota, Mitsubishi, Mazda, Hyundai and Kia are all losing sales to these new arrivals, and it’s especially noticeable in the SUV segment, because that’s the bulk of the market - albeit split into varying size/price categories.

If we look at the large SUVs (that are not 4X4s), Kluger, Santa Fe, Sorento, and the CX-80, they’ve all crept up in price in the last 5 years. While simulteneously the Chinese-brand counterparts, the Chery Tiggo 8, the LDV D90, the new MG QS and the Jaecoo J8 are now taking sales away by offering better perceived value.

The LDV D90 sold about 3300 units in 2025, which was about 1000 up from 2024. Put those two years together and we’re looking at over 5000 sales that didn’t go to the likes of Hyundai, Kia, Mitsubishi, Mazda or Toyota.

The Chery Tiggo 8 costs $44,000 in its most expensive form. It sold 3571 units in 2025. Let’s assume everyone bought the top-spec version: that’s over $157 million worth of collective sales missed out on. But what’s interesting here is if we do the same thought experiment with something like a Hyundai Santa Fe, which sold 6264 units last year and starts at $59,000.

Selling the same number of base-model Santa Fes at $59K, is over $210 million in sales. So a Santa Fe is still worth more to sell, as a dealer, than a Tiggo 8. What this means for you is that the commercial business model for a dealer to sell a Santa Fe is certainly not under any extreme threat just yet.

What will be important to watch over time is the yearly percentage increase, because in 2025, Santa Fe sales increased by about 16 per cent over 2024. The Tiggo 8’s sales increased 99 per cent. Now, that’s easy to do off a comparatively low base (just 1700 units in 2024), but it shows the trend.

 

And this is why you should shop with caution with these new brands. It’s very hard to maintain long-term growth in our market with so many brands competing. And if a brand collapses, commercially, you can be left with a shitbox nobody wants to buy used, service or sell parts for, or fix if there are any technical problems further down the track.

What vehicles like the Tiggo 8 are also doing is displacing sales from the struggling brands like Nissan Pathfinder, Subaru Outback (to a lesser extent), the Volkswagen Tiguan Allspace & Toureg, KGM/Ssangyong Rexton, and Peugeot 5008.

So let’s see what the Tiggo 8 offers for its eye-wateringly low pricetag.

Click here to download the official Chery Tiggo 8 specifications >

 

FEATURES & PRICING

TIGGO 8 PRO MAX - URBAN | $39,000 driveaway approx.

  • 18-inch alloy (235/55 R18 tyres, space-saver spare)

  • Tyre pressure monitoring

  • Auto locking (walk away)

  • ISOFIX (2 Positions)

  • Front & rear parking sensors

  • 360-degree camera

  • Driver knee and front-centre airbags

  • Forward collision warning, autonomous emergency braking, lane: emergency lane keeping, departure warning, change assist and departure prevention; rear collision warning, rear cross-traffic alert, rear cross-traffic braking

  • Adaptive cruise control

  • Door opening warning

  • Driver monitoring system

  • Black synthetic leather

  • 6-way electric driver's seat adjustment, 4-way electric driver's seat lumbar, driver’s seat position memory (3 settings) with ‘welcome’ function

  • 4-Way Power Front Passenger Seat (Front Passenger Seat Auxiliary Control)

  • Heated and ventilated (cooled) front seats

  • Auto dimming rearview mirror

  • LED: headlights, taillights, DRL, rear foglight, interior lighting (colour selectable), auto high beam

  • Dual-Zone Air Conditioning, Air Quality Management System, N95 Air Purification, Negative Ion / Ozone Air Freshener Function, Second Row Air Vents

  • Dual 12.3-inch infotainment touchscreen

  • 8-speaker Sony sound system

  • Android Auto & Apple CarPlay

  • 2 x USB-A (1 front, 1 rear), 2 x USB-C (1 front, 1 rear)

  • Wireless phone charging

  • Roof rails

  • Auto rain-sensing front wipers

  • Electric adjusting, folding door mirrors with reverse auto-dipping

  • 4 x auto up/down windows, proxy smartkey with push-button start

TIGGO 8 PRO MAX - ULTIMATE | $44,000 driveaway approx.

  • Remote open/close windows

  • Power tailgate

  • Brown synthetic leather (optional)

  • Row 3 air vent with fan speed control, fragrance system (with optional leather option)

  • 10-speaker Sony sound system

  • Puddle lamps, illuminated front door sills, welcome light (animated headlights & taillights)

  • Remote open & close windows

  • Privacy glass

  • Panoramic sunroof (slide & tilt function) with powered sunshade

 

INTERIOR

Acknowledging the elephant-sized touchscreen in the room here, the Tiggo 8 super hybrid’s cabin is absolutely dominated by the enormous 15.6-inch screen. The combustion-only versions just gets the dual 12.3-inch screens like in a Hyundai Santa Fe.

If you like this kind of thing, you’ll be glad to know there’s also a 10-inch driver’s display screen as well (on both the hybrid and non-hybrid), both of which look like they’ve been placed there with very little consideration for driver distraction, ergonomics or taste.

What you’ll notice is that there isn’t much in the way of design aesthetic in the interior. There’s no ‘language’ or theme going on here, it just looks like everything has been placed in a reasonably logical sense and made to look, at the very lest, inoffensive.

For most peple, this might be okay. It just depends on your sensibilities and how much or little you care for these aspects of new-car ownership. But there are functional concerns here regarding the forible nature of screens for everything, including on the steering wheel.

Big screens can be obscenely bright at night and often don’t adjust low enough, so ask for an overnight test drive to find this out for yourself and make sure you know how to turn the brightness down

The steering wheel controls are not buttons, they’re touch-sensitive controls, which means you can accidentally activate them with a palm or an errant finger, adding to driver distraction. It’s worth noting that plenty of other carmakers have used similar on their vehicles; it’s not just Chery.

Having said that, they’re not necessarily a drawback. ‘Touch buttons’ as they’re called, are just different. You simly tap with your finger which signals to activiate that feature. This means they can smudge and do need cleaning regularly. But the conventional buttons return if you look at the non-hybrid version and they are reasonably normal in terms of their location; adaptability is always key.

Furthermore, the fact that essential functions like the HVAC system, which includes the front and rear demister, is adjusted only via the primary touchscreen is a concern. Typically there needs to be some kind of button as a redundancy in the unlikely scenario the screen fails.

The rest of the interior is actually quite pleasant in terms of being well equipped, with plenty of soft-touch areas about the doors where you lean, push and pull.

The high centre console is actually partly hollow with a basement style storage area not unlike the Hyundai Palisade, and the dual smartphone stowage areas includes a wireless charging pad on the driver’s side. Although the design of the lip edge surrounding this pad means if you want to use your charging cable instead, the phone won’t sit flat and actually rests on the cable’s plug.

The steering wheel has a flat bottom for some unknown reason, and the stalks on the column look identical to those in a previous-iteration Tesla Model 3 (or similar).

The steering wheel buttons are

In the non-hybrid version of Tiggo 8 you get a much more conventional centre console layout with a wireless charging pad (with closeable lid) foreward of two cupholders, then the transmission selector and adjacent buttons before the lid/armrest of the cosole storeage box.

You do get three rows of seats, of course, and all of them get the quilted treatment and even on the base model ‘Urban’ you get synthetic leather upholstery.

Rows 2 and 3 are not the same in terms of child restraint suitability, however. You get ISOFix points in the second row, but none in the third meaning it’s only for kids over the age of roughly 9-10 years where the seatbelt sits correctly over the shoulder.

 

SAFETY

The Chery Tiggo 8 was assessed by ANCAP in 2025 using crash data acquired in the Tiggo 7 testing in 2025. Unfortunately for consumers who might like to see the Tiggo 8 in action, there are no images or videos supplied by ANCAP of this testing.

Instead, we can rely on the technical report which you can download here >.

Tiggo 8 does pretty well in the adult occupant protection section, but not great, it must be said, in the frontal offset test at 60km/h into the 1400kg mobile sled.

With a 40 per cent overlap, the Tiggo 8 only managed a 4.2 out of 8 in this mobile sled test, earning an ‘adequate’ chest and lower leg protection score, and a ‘weak’ score for the upper legs. Front passenger legs were very similar; ‘marginal’ for upper legs, and ‘adequate’ for lower legs and chest.

The reason this is an undesirable score is that leg injuries have potentially deadly consequences, even when they’re ‘marginal’, because it’s very easy to have internal leg injuries like ruptured arteries, without any visibile sign from the outside.

Highlighting this is necessary because this is, notionally, one of the most common road crash types on our roads.

Furthermore, Chery seems to have two issues with its knee airbag. Firstly, the pre-March 2025 models had one, and the March 2025-onwards models do not have one - including the hybrid. Knee airbags are not mandatory, but they are pretty much a car industry standard now; certainly a benchmark.

Secondly, regarding Tiggo 8 airbags, according to ANCAP:

The originally-tested vehicle was fitted with a driver’s knee airbag, however it did not deploy properly in the test, and did not fully cover the knee impact zone. Penalties were applied.

Additional testing was undertaken on a vehicle without the knee airbag and results from this test showed levels of protection were similar with or without the knee airbag.

Actually it would probably be easier to explain that in the adult occupant protection category it was only the side impact test, where the sled hits at 60km/h into the side of the vehicle, that the Tiggo 8 didn’t get marked down.

Even in the oblique pole test at 32km/h the chest readings for the dummy were ‘marginal’, this is despite having side and curtain airbags.

The ‘safety assist’ category showed mixed results with auto emergency braking and lane systems doing pretty good. Although, it has a ‘poor’ rated reverse emergency braking system that, according to the report, was not tested because the test vehicle didn’t have the system fitted - and yet there are results showing a ‘poor’ outcome at both 4km/h and 8km/h regardless of the overlap and standing or walking.

In summary, it really is worth looking at the Tiggo 8 if you’re going to be driving around school zones, in the city and in the suburbs. For such a modern vehicle, the performance in this area seems disappoting, regardless of earning a 5 star rating overall.

 
 

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ENGINE

There are two powertrains in the Tiggo 8, regardless of whether you get the ‘Urban’ or the ‘Ultimate’. Both model grades get the same powertrain, too, so there’s no performance upgrade if you opt to spend a little more on the top-spec variant.

The non-hybrid, petrol-only Tiggo 8 gets a 2-litre turbocharged 4-cylinder unit that makes 180 kilowatts and produces 375 Newton-metres as a result.

The Urban comes as a front-wheel drive and the Ultimate gets an on-demand all-wheel drive system which responds when it detects wheelspin, by sending some drive to the rear wheels in addition to the front. Otherwise it’s primarily a front-drive vehicle.

The ‘super-hybrid’ version gets a 1.5-litre turbocharged petrol 4-cylinder engine which, by itself, makes 105kW. But then it also uses an 18.4kWh lithium-iron phosphate battery pack (often abbreviated to LiFePO4), which powers a 150kW AC electric motor that makes 150kW and 310 Newton-metres of torque combined with the 215 made by the 1.5 engine.

This is also a plug-in hybrid powertrain, so you can charge it at home, work or using public charging. It also means you can drive it for a short distacnce, approximately 40-60km, on entirely battery-electric power.

So in total, the Tiggo 8 super-hybrid makes 255 kilowatts combined and 525Nm of torque. That’s an astonishing amount of grunt going through the tyres, which is why it’s good to see they’ve actually put some Continental 235/50 R19s over the 19-inch alloys.

What’s important to note here is that both the hybrid and the combustion-only Tiggo 8 powertrains take 95 RON petrol as a minimum, so you will be paying for premium fuel every time you fill up the 60-litre tank (57L in the non-hybrid).

Tiggo 8 plug-in hybrid offers big power figures, but demands 95 octane premium petrol

The 7-speed dual-clutch transmission is an interesting choice for a vehicle such as this (the non-hybrid, that is), especially given what product planners at Hyundai and Kia did with their passenger SUVs regarding DCTs.

The Korean brands did use DCTs in their SUVs like Tucson, Sorrento, Sportage and Santa Fe for several years, which is what gave them such accessible, driver-focussed family vehicles that were great for mums and dads who still appreciated the task of driving.

And Hyundai/Kia DCTs were actually quite robust, reliable, and they were excellently calibrated. But the stopped using them in the last two years and went back to conventional epicyclic automatics.

Typically, the latter are much better suited for stop-start traffic, where many family SUVs commonly get used. While DCTs tend to have more of a performance edge to them, which means they’re very efficient and change gears very quickly, with very little wasted energy.

But they can have a tendancy to prematurely wear out the clutch when regular drivers creep forward at crawl-type speeds, such as in carparks, stopped at traffic lights and when you’re waiting outside the school gate for pick-up.

Considering Chery is aiming to catch up to the Korean (and Japanese) brands in sales in the future, they may change the DCT to a regular epicyclic auto. Doing so however would probably increase the fuel consumption and emissions due to those transmissions consuming more fuel thanks to the torque converter which saps a small amount of power.

Having said that, the Tiggo 8 plug-in hybrid is not short on grunt and uses a single-speed reduction gear to spin in reverse to recharge the battery when you’re coasting, braking or rolling downhill. The energy captured, which would otherwise be wasted, gets reused to power the electric motor that helps you get going again.

With a power-to-weight ratio of 132kW per tonne, the PHEV has plenty on-tap for whatever overtaking or acceleration you might demand. That power-weight ratio makes it very quick to take off from a standing start.

But it’s important to know here that it’s not going to race off like a Porsche Cayenne here, because unless you’re revving it to 5200 RPM where the peak power is, you’re not always getting it all at once.

You’re getting, in the vast majority of driving scenarios you’re likely to ever encounter, just the electric motor to get going with (from stationary, because that’s the most efficient use of an electric motor) and then you get the petrol engine kicking in with its 105kW.

Only when you absolutely rag the thing is it going to give you full power, at which point you’d be breaking the speed limits and endangering lives.

What this powertrain is going to do is offer a very smooth, confidence-inspiring and linear acceleration, which brings us to the next surprising aspect of the latest Chery products.

 

DRIVING

Chinese brands were no where near the Japanese or Korean brands in terms of performance, ride and handling, or steering feel - about 15 years ago, that is.

Today, it’s a very different story, because for the most part the bigger, more established brands have in fact gotten remarkably close to the rest of the world in terms of how they drive.

Chery is one of those brands breaking that mould. They are now making vehicles of noticeably better quality than the Korean brands were making about 20-25 years ago. And they’re making cars that are on-par with Japanese brands from about 30 years ago.

But they’ve done it in a much shorter timeframe than either of those two nations. They’ve done it in the space of 10-15 years. And when you get behind the wheel of a Tiggo 8, you’s struggle lay out a reasonable argument against the notion that it’s actually pretty well behaved.

Until recently, Chinese cars were notoriously devoid of feel in the steering. This is a similar pbservation people would make about Lexus vehicles about 15-20 years ago.

But today, a Tiggo 8, which is a 2-tonne, 7-seat family SUV, handles its bulk with respectable ‘bump and rebound’ which is basically how well it responds to hitting a lump in the road and a pothole.

The steering is moderately weighty, which is what you want when you’re on a regional, twisty backroad; you want to feel the car turning when you load up the wheel. And it’s also light enough that parking and tight manouvres in driveways don’t feel like you’re trying to rotate a Soviet-era tank.

This is a difficult balance to get right. But clearly the Chery engineers at the mothership in Wuhu, China aren’t too far off.

The main issue with this vehicle, as with many of is counterparts, is the driver monitoring software which continues to be invasive. Some gorilla tape helps.

Apart from this, the brakes work pretty well without being face-pulling, the handling is good enough and the take-off is pretty smooth.

But you should be encouraged to take your own test drive and interact with the vehicle in some level of similarity to your daily life. Plug in your phone, make a call while driving, adjust the radio and set the air-conditioning as if you were driving your regular car.

Keep an open, adaptable mindset and see if you can learn to be okay with its idiosyncracise, or if it’s a downright deal-breaker.

Ensure you do a 3-point turn, drive down some unusual streets (don’t just stick to the main roads), have a go on the freeway and have a go fitting a child restraint to see if you can live with this thing before dropping $50K on it.

 

FUNCTIONALITY

Legroom in the third row of Tiggo 8 is severely limited. It’s about as restricting, if not more, than the Mitsubishi Outlander’s row 3 layout. That said, it’s not terrible, but it does get close to defeating the purpose for having row 3 seats.

This just means it’s going to be for kids only, obviously, and only for kids who are no longer sitting in child restraints or booster. But they do get cupholders.

Something doesn’t add up regarding Tiggo 8’s boot capacity; unless it’s using Timelord tech from Dr. Who…

The luggage space in Tiggo 8 is pretty good. With all three rows of seats up, you get 117 litres behind the third row. With row 3 collapsed, you get 479 litres up to the top of the row-2 seats, and with rows 2 collapsed but packing to the roof, there’s 739 litres available - according to Chery.

But in 2-seat mode, with rows 2 and 3 down, Chery doesnt actually state the internal cargo volume. And nor does it state whether these figures above are the same for the super hybrid or not. In fact, there are no officialy cargo capacity claims for the hybrid at all, which makes comparison with other models difficult.

Given that in 5-seat mode the luggage capacity is a claimed 739 litres, but it’s only 4.72 metres long, it’s unlikely this is an accurate figure, or at least it’s unrealistic in a vehicle that is also 1.86m wide. Reason for this educated presumption is that a Hyundai Santa Fe is longer and wider at 4.83m long and 1.9m wide. Even the wheelbase on Santa Fe is longer at 2.81m compared with 2.71m on the Tiggo 8, and yet the Santa Fe offers 628 litres in 5-seat mode. Sorento: 608 litres. CX-80: 566L. Kluger: 552L.

Now, obviously you can waste space by having greater dimensions but not utilising them for optimum cargo space, but you can’t add interior cargo volume which exceeds dimensions of the vehicle overall. Most likely, it’s packing to the roof that is the unrealistic aspect of the Tiggo 8’s cargo capacity, because Santa Fe and Sorento cannot offer more cargo volume despite having marginally bigger proportions.

But it seems dubious that a Tiggo 8 could offer more luggage space from smaller dimensions. What we do know for certain is that in terms of packing to the top of the backseats, Santa Fe, Sorento and even a Mazda CX-80 all offer more space.

 

DRAWBACKS

The lack of full-size spare under the boot floor is a concern for a vehicle that is, notionally, going to have six or seven people on board with a bunch of luggage. Sidewall punctures are relatively easy to suffer when you’re parallel parking and pinch the tyre on a kerb, in which case a canister of compressed goop is not going to repair the hole.

Even worse here is if you’re stranded on the shoulder of a busy motorway in 40-degree heat or torrential rain and in danger of being hit by other road users. For this reasons, it’s nice to know the Mitsubishi Outlander and Mazda CX-70 have a space-saver spare, and Hyundai Santa Fe and Kia Sorento both get full-size spare wheels.

One last thing to consider here, although it’s less critical than it was the first time Chery tried to make it in the Australian market is the brand’s longevity.

In real terms, Chery has only been back selling cars here since 2023. In just three years, admittedly, they’ve grown substantially in terms of dealer footprint, sales volume and without doubt the quality is a space-program ahead of its cars from nearly two decades ago.

But it is worth just keeping in mind that brands like Honda, Nissan and Volkswagen are struggling and could leave Australia too, meaning that even big brands can collapse. So too can new players in a relatively small commercial market like ours.

With such a short track record of less than five years to go on, Chery isn’t quite there yet in terms of being unable to fail and leave you with no technical support, no onshore spare parts and a worthless warranty status.

This is not to suggest it will happen, and nor is this a willness for it to happen either. Just beware, they’re not a top 10 carmaker yet, and for this reason, you need to make an informed choice.

Tiggo 8 is also heavily compromised in terms of towing with just 75kg of towball download permitted and only 1300kg of braked capacity available. That’s just 5 per cent of the rated trailer load restrained by the vehicle and frankly, that’s pretty poor.

At 10 per cent of the maximum trailer weight capacity restrained by the Tiggo 8, you’d be restricting yourself, for safety’s sake, to just 750kg of braked capacity - so lax are Australia laws and road safety advocacy that you can leagally put just 5 per cent of 1.3 tonnes on the towball.

If you only ever do very light towing assignments, then this is actually going to be okay, but it is worth noting it’s a considerably lower working safety limit compared with its rivals.

 

MAIN COMPETITORS

Hyundai Santa Fe

Pro: full-size spare, 7 seats, high equipment levels in Elite & Highlander, reliable diesel-AWD powertrain, decent moderate towing capacity;

Con: No row 3 ISOFix points, no row 3 full-coverage curtain airbags

PERFORMANCE

Engine: 1.6L turbo 4-cylinder hybrid || Power: 172 kW @ 5500 RPM || 529Nm @ 1500-4500 RPM || Power-to-weight ratio: 83 kW/t || 0-100km/h: 10 sec approx. || Fuel cap.: 67L || Combined fuel consumption: 5.6L/100km (claimed) | Fuel: 91 RON

Driveline: Full-time AWD, 6-speed epicyclic sports-automatic

SIZE & WEIGHT

L: 4830mm W: 1900mm H: 1770mm || Wheelbase: 2815mm

Kerb weight: 2105kg Turning circle: 11.6m Ground clearance: 177mm

Luggage space: 628 L (row 2 up), 1949L (row 2 down)

Towing: 1650kg braked (100kg towball d/load) | Max payload: 575kg | GVM: 2680kg

DRAWBACKS

  • Only 100kg towball d/load (6%)

  • Very low towbar attachment relative to the ground

Click here for more on Hyundai Santa Fe >>

 

Toyota Kluger

Good: Hybrid powertrain for stop-start city driving; good combined fuel economy 5.6 L/100km, full-size spare, 18-inch wheels, row 3 curtain airbags, warranty 5yr/unlimited km, equipment: front & rear camera, driver knee airbag, all-LED lights, auto wipers, dual-zone climate, satnav

CON: Short service interval 6mth/10,000km (whichever first), demands premium 95 RON fuel (could offset fuel economy saving), cloth seats, heavy at 2050kg (kerb wt.) | Santa Fe Elite (D): 1943kg | CX-9 Azami LE (AWD) 2011kg |

Expensive, no diesel engine for towing, long delivery wait times, base paint colour is black - the worst for keeping clean; white/colour adds $700.

Click here for more on More on Toyota Kluger >>

 

Kia Sorento

Good: 7 seats, 4 x ISOFix child restraint anchor points, reliable frugal diesel-AWD combination, rotary transmission selector, full-size spare, excellent value in Sport+ or GT-Line, 7-year warranty, high standard equipment levels, decent moderate towing capacity (2000kg, braked \ 200kg towball download (diesel)), Australian ride & handling tune;

Bad: lacks row 3 curtain airbags, smaller than Palisade, tricky row 3 access by comparison

Click here for more on Kia Sorento here >>

 

CONCLUSION

The Tiggo 8 offers compelling value for money - there’s absolutely no doubting that - if you need to get your big family around town for a very tight budget.

But if the budget isn’t quite that tight and you do have some room to wriggle, there are more options within a similar price range that offer you better residual value over the life of the vehicle. Depreciation isn’t always going to be an issue for everyone, but it can be a hidden cost when buying such an affordable family vehicle, because having a very low base price means you will lose value quicker than the more established brands’ products.

Tiggo 8 drives okay, it rides okay and it has pretty decent space and capability for plenty of Aussie families who need to get out of their old tank and into something more modern, more economical and safer.

But it would be doing yourself a massive disservice to just buy based on price alone, because as the old adage goes, you do get what you pay for, especially when you’re shopping for a new family SUV.

Tiggo 8 is not a bad car at all. It’s just not the best in its class and sometimes spending a little bit more does net you a better value product - because numbers aren’t everything. Sometimes its what you get in return that matters most.

 
 

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