The Sub-$60k Chery Tiggo 9 PHEV Makes Luxury SUVs Look Limp | Auto Expert John Cadogan
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The Chery Tiggo 9 Super Hybrid Ultimate is difficult to ignore.
On value, it’s outstanding. On equipment, comfort and straight-line performance, it’s genuinely impressive. This is a seven-seat plug-in hybrid SUV with a 34kWh battery, up to 170km of official electric range, all-wheel drive, and 315kW of total system power — for the kind of money that makes some premium-brand alternatives look frankly absurd.
But it’s not perfect.
The big criticism is control logic and usability. Chery has leaned very hard into the “vehicle as iPad” philosophy: minimal physical buttons, menu-heavy operation, and a few odd interlocks and HMI decisions that make the car feel more like an IT project than a polished driving machine at times.
In this review, I look at what the Tiggo 9 Super Hybrid Ultimate gets right, where it still needs refinement, how its plug-in hybrid system differs from rivals like the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, BYD Shark 6 and Kia Sorento PHEV, and whether this Chinese SUV is now good enough to recommend.
Spoiler: yes — with caveats.
The value equation is brutally strong. The engineering is serious. But a few percent more polish in controls, feedback and dynamic refinement would make this thing substantially better.
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