2026 Chery Tiggo 4 Hybrid – NZ Full Review | The Best Value None-Plug-In Hybrid SUV?
In terms of fuel consumption, that’s the last 50k fuel consumption for me. SP mode. One, two, three. [Music] Hey guys, this is J. Welcome to channel. This is the all new Cherry Tigle 4 hybrid available in the new market. In today’s video, I’ll go for a POV drive to let you know the exterior, interior, and the driving experience after driving the Cherry Tigle 4 for a week. Let’s get outside first. First thing, let’s start off from the pricing part. In the New Zealand market, the Cherry Tigle 4 hybrid starts from 32990 plus OC. This one is the Ultimate. That’s at $3799 plus OC. But at the moment, while I’m filming, Terry does offer a $2,000 discount. That means this car starts just over $30,000 before the onroll costs on the market. The closest competitor to the Cheratico 4 hybrid will be the GWM Harold Joling which offers hybrid as well and also the MG ZS hybrid. Overall, it is a very compact size. It is just over 4.3 m long. Uh close to 1.9 m wide. Height is over 1.65 m long. The wheelbase sits over 2.6 m. So overall compact size but still enough for five people inside and not bad luggage room by the way. In terms of exterior it looks identical to the petrol version apart from alloy wheel design since we’re driving the highest back today anyway. Still 17in on the sides with some sort of e-range tires from a company called Silon. I’ve got no idea what it is. It’s not the best tires but the alloys looks all right. At the front, we’re having full LED headlights with indicators underneath and also daytime running underneath as well. Big chunky grill over here. Just like the Cherry logos, you get Cherry logos on the top, black trims, and sort of diamond silver trims in between. They look all right to be fair. You can definitely see them on the road. Overall, the shape is quite boxy and you can definitely see the language around the vehicle underneath. silver plate, some black trims on the door and in chrome trims on the top as well. Now coming to the back, you get full LED tail lights at the back. They do lit up at night. So very cool actually for a Carda at this price point. So on the market, if there’s no discount hybrid version, the price difference between the petrol and the hybrid is $8,000. Whether you think that eight is reasonable, well, it’s really up to you. And then at the back, Cherry logos on the top. Tickle four hybrid underneath. This is pretty much the only place you can tell apart from the Cherry Tigle 4 petrol against the hybrid. Now, let’s get to the front. You get Kitty Centry, Kitty Start, and also available on the lower trim. Today, this one, we are driving the highest back. By the way, being the highest back, you get leather seats at the front, electric on the driver’s side, heated function at the front seats. By the way, if you do go for the base model, which is called urban, you’re going to get fabric seats, which is actually not bad. I don’t mind the base model. I’ll be honest with you. Now, get inside. Push button start. There we go. The vehicle is on. So, you get pretty much a similar interior like the Cherry to go for petrol version. Uh, all the buttons over here are piano black, but they are at least hard, you know, plastic buttons you can press. So, that’s pretty good. Cherry logo in the center. Steering is quite large for the size of the vehicle, but it’s okay. Indicators on the right and windscreen wiper on the left. Behind the steering, you also get this facial monitoring system, which works okay. Not the best, but not the worst for sure. And at the front, that’s the 12.3 in display, which looks all right. You get different designs, I believe. So, there will be a display setting. You can change your theme and that will change the design language on your dashboard just like that. You can also make it traditional if you wish. Most things are easy, intuitive and if you do use the buttons, you can also click left and right. In terms of fuel consumption, that’s the last 50k fuel consumption for me. 4.8 liter per 100 case. Not too bad, isn’t it? I’ve got good consumption out of this one. And the factory claim is actually 5.2. So, I’ve got better readings on the dash. Anyway, going in the center, this is another 12.3 in display. So, identical to the standard Cherry Go 4. You can swap the screen to go other places. And then on the side, you can swap in to do quick adjustments over here. And also your parking brake, auto hold, and things like that. Speaking of a parking brake, there’s no physical parking brake key over here. This is another place to tell the hybrid versus the petrol version. The petrol version will have the electric handbrake and auto hold buttons over here where this one you are controlled by the screen. So two ways to actually disengage your parking brake. One way seat belt on, put on drive or reverse, press the accelerator, the car will go. Alternatively, if you don’t have your seat belt on, you have to actually press this to disengage the parking brake. Some people may not like it, but it’s just what it is on many many new Cherry vehicles. Apart from that, the screen response time is all right. It’s not too bad. You get local settings about Bluetooth display. You get vehicle settings about some of the vehicle keys, lights, driver assistance, and all that things. And then you do have wireless Android as well as Apple CarPlay that’s available through the screen. You do also have Hello Cherry to give you commands and things like that. So, we can use that. Uh all the safety pack technology are standard across all the Cherry vehicles like the adaptive cruise control, blind spot detection and all that things. these higher spec will get the 360 view camera which actually looks pretty good for the price. I don’t mind that. But if you go to the base model, it’s just a reverse camera. Either way, you will get front and rear parking sensors on both of the vehicle. Now coming down to the sensor, these are your physical buttons to change your music and couple buttons for the camera. Driving mode and home button over here. Driving mode, it has entered sport mode. You can do sport mode. eco mode. So that’s two modes for you to go to. Under the vehicle settings, you can also change the region braking and things like that. That’s available on the vehicle over here. You can do low, medium, or high. I’ve always said it low. That’s my sort of preference. Underneath these are some buttons for your climate control. Although they’re not physical buttons, but still they are very easy to use. You get directions on the top, temperature display, everything in the center, some quick buttons over here for your auto, AC, and then you do get temperature controls just by your site. So, these are really easy to use and really easy to touch. I do love that. So, I don’t mind this screen display. The only thing is you get quite some fingerprints as you can see. Now, over here, that’s the electronic gear shifter. Some storage over here since the uh electric parking brake button is deleted. Over here, storage for your phone or for your wallet. Over here, two small cup holders. They’re not superb, but they’re okay. Underneath, quite deep storage. And on the side, yeah, decent amount of storage by the glove box. On the top, we got we are getting the sunroof over here, which is a manual cover and electric shade and electric glass, by the way. But yeah, I don’t think I’ll need it if I’m going to buy this car. But whether you like some of the things, it’s really up to you whether you want to get the heavy seats, leather, and things like that. I think the base model actually represents a really good value. Anyway, let’s go to the back. So, I’ve set the driver seat to my driving position. I’m about 178 cm tall. I’ve got great amount of leg room, as you can see. Food space is okay. Not too bad. The food floor is okay. And the floor is a little bit higher compared to some other cars, but I don’t mind it. On the side, one thing I should mention, a cool Cherry feature, which is available on Cherry Tigle 4, is your opening warning. So, if someone’s traveling behind you, this light will lit up when the vehicle stays at park just in case you open the door all of a sudden. So, that’s actually give give you a indication over there. That’s really good. pocket over here, one single air vent over here, one single USBA charging underneath, and storage over here. Speaking of the storage, I do forgot to mention that there is a under tray storage just in there with USBA and type-C charging. And then over here, cup holder and armrest feels quite nice. Now, yeah, that’s pretty good for the back seats cuz the card isn’t huge. It’s only 4.3 m long, but it’s got a good amount of space for me, for an adult like me. Anyway, let’s get to the boot. So, manual tailgate even on the highest spec. That’s just the only thing about this variants. And then opening the boot, floor is reasonably low. It’s quite flat. It’s not as long as some other competitors, but it’s pretty wide. You can see the hump over here. That’s where the hybrid battery or some other battery is taking places. If you’re looking for the petrol version, this is completely flat. By the way, the volume for the boot is around 470 L according to Cherry Brocher, but it doesn’t look as big as that cuz it’s all the way to the roof. You can drop the seats 40 60 split. That’s going to create more than,000 L of course. And then underneath you got some storage. You got the um jack and things and then underneath you are going to get a space saver which is really good. But remember you can only get the space saver on this outer version. If you go to the urban version you don’t get space saver. You only get tie mobility kit. So the cherry tig hybrid urban is the only variant that you don’t get space saver across all the Cherry Tig range. Hm. That’s a strange thing, but that’s the fact. Anyway, close that. Pretty easy. All right. Now, let’s get on the road to give it a drive. And I forgot to switch off the vehicle. You can hear how lovely and how quiet this is since this is switched to EV mode. Very simple, isn’t it? All right. First thing, visibility at the front is pretty good. The car seats quite high and side mirrors are really good. There is a small gap to see your giveaway or stop sign. Left is all right. Side is all right. There is no rear quarter window to see the sort of the gap at a very blind spot at the back, but it’s not too bad. The rear windscreen is quite small, but at least the car is short. It doesn’t really affect too much unless you have someone sitting at the back seat in the middle. Let’s get it on the road. See how it goes. So in terms of drivetrain, it come with a 1.5 L petrol motor that is natural aspirated. So no turbocharged unlike the petrol variants. It produces 71 kW of power, 120 Newton meters of torque. So again, small engine and small power. That’s that’s understandable. But you do get EV mode and EV battery at the back. The EV motor produces 150 kW of power, 310 Newton meters of torque. On the brochure, Cherry does not mention a combined power, but that’s going to be more than 150 kW. As we understand, when you combine both things, that’s going to be more, but it would be a lot less than 200 kW in my opinion. Um, you can definitely feel that when you drive the vehicle, but in anyways, it’s not a slow car. Whenever you need the power, it’s very easy to, you know, push to go and the vehicle does give you a really good nice acceleration. And now we are driving on standard eco mode. The vehicle will switch, you know, to petrol motor once you reach to a certain speed or if you put your foot down to do any acceleration and things. The combined fuel consumption from the factory is just over five liters per 100ks. As I mentioned earlier, I can reach about 4.7 liter per 100ks on the last 50k run. So, it’s actually pretty good range or pretty good consumption as far as I can see. And then coming to the suspension setup on this vehicle, it’s Mike Ven at the front, torsion beam at the back. Again, it’s a budget friendly vehicle, so not a premium setup. The vehicle drives okay in terms of straight line acceleration. Uh, but the handling isn’t really great. So, at low speed, at low sort of turns, you can see all the dead spots around the vehicle and the steering is a little bit numb feel. There’s not much engagement when you drive a vehicle on surfaces like this. And there we go. acceleration is isn’t too bad. I’m okay with acceleration, but yeah, the steering response is quite vague and there’s not much of a steering, you know, assistance or steering adjustments. At least it’s reasonably comfortable. Occasionally on the road, you are going to feel, you know, small bumps and holes, but it’s kind of absorbing that a little bit. All right. And when you turn the car towards certain angles, you actually get a good steering feel out of it. You can definitely feel that as well. Now, driving at low speed, the vehicle feels reasonably quiet. Um, until you reach to the petrol power of obviously engage the petrol power when it needs to. And um at the most places it’s relatively quiet. And when the e vehicle switch from EV to petrol, it’s also not too bad. Let’s do a Uturn over here just to see how it is like for the turning circle around this small area. Um one thing I should mention at low speed, changing the gear isn’t really easy, but let’s give it a try. Oh, it’s got reverse this time. Sometimes it just doesn’t go into reverse. It will just stay on neutral. So you have to press the brake quite heavily. But this time it’s all right. And when the vehicle is on reverse, there’s a small chime noise to warn pedestrians and things like that. So that’s reasonable. And over here, let’s switch the vehicle back to enter mode. Let’s see if we sport mode. There we go. Has entered sport mode. Small mode. Okay, I need that. Let’s get it on the road. to see how the acceleration is like. All right, spam mode. 1 2 3 [Music] Ph. That’s not a bad acceleration. I will be honest with you. If there’s no truck, we can easily reach 100k quite fast. Actually, there’s a little bit tire chirping, which is fine. Uh, just being frontwheel drive, that’s the, you know, expectation you will get when you do such a big acceleration, such a big power push on the motorway. There are some font changes on the dash when it’s on sport mode as well to let you know, you know, I’m in the orange color. I’m on the spot mode. Now, let’s go back to the eco mode. And you can definitely get the reduction on the speed and things on the motorway. You get quite a bit wind noise around places and the car feels quite boxy. I guess the winds just blast through the windscreen and things. So, you’re going to get match noise on the motorway. In terms of confidence, it’s all right. It’s understandable for the size of the vehicle. Um, but you get some small adjustments on some surfaces and you can definitely feel that in the vehicle when you go through all these barriers and things. You can get get a big shake in the car. So, you can definitely feel that. So, overall, it’s not a premium riding, but do remember this is a really good price for probably one of the best priced hybrid vehicles on the market right now. So, it’s something you understand and you take that into consideration. You know, being a budget friendly vehicle, it’s not supposed to do everything perfectly. Let’s be honest. Now, let’s go back to the urban driving and let’s talk about that again. Just like I mentioned, when you drive at low speeds, when the vehicle slow down, it will recharge. It will also do region braking. By the way, you can change the level from low, medium, or high. My favorite is lower, just very minimal region. And when you reach to a certain speed at low speed, if your battery is obviously charged, you’ll also switch into EV mode. But the EV mode stays probably until about 50ks or so. It depends on your acceleration as well. Uh eventually the petrol motor will kick in, will engage. You can feel that by the way. When the petrol motor kicks in from the EV motor, from the EV mode, you can feel a small sort of vibration. Not too bad. Not to the level that you’re going to dislike it. So, just a perfectly normal situation. But if you do put your foot down very heavily, the petrol motor will kick in and then eventually the petrol motor will make a very loud noise. And those noises are again fine for what the vehicle brings to you, but just it’s just the way how it is. Um handling as we mentioned at a low sort of turns it’s a a bit numb in some way. Um there’s not much feelings behind it. Very not much engaging. The vehicle feels like there’s a little bit body roll when you go faster on corners. But again at this price point you kind of expect those things to happen and it’s not going to be perfect for the price point for what this car brings to you. On the features aside, it is acceptable in terms of driving experience. I don’t think you will be disappointed with the driving. Unless you are comparing this to a very much fancier car on the market. With that saying, if you do want a little bit handling, I think at the just a bit over this vehicle’s price, you could go for the MG ZS hybrid that’s has a little bit more solid steering response. Again, that’s more expensive and this is supposed to be better. Let’s put that way. And yeah, at low speed, you are still going to feel the road on the seats. You’re going to feel the small bumps, small holes, and here and there, which is, you know, just the way how this car performs. And uh steering can be changed from eco or comfort setting or sport setting by the way. But even under the sport setting, it still feels relatively unresponed. Let’s put that way. So even right now you can see it it does shake in places. Let’s do that. Anyway, we’ll get on the on the motorway and give it a go again. And that’s pretty much us. It’s all right acceleration, but the engine is a little bit loud if you do push it to the limit. So, it’s not a quiet engine in terms of acceleration, but again, it’s a it’s a good car for the price point. You always have to look at the price point when you considering, you know, what this car offers and things like that. So, what are my thoughts about the Cherry Tigle 4 hybrid? It may not be the best driving vehicle machine in terms of handling, in terms of comfort and things like that, but do remember at its price point. It’s got all the features that you will really need as a daily drive or the safety technologies. Um, and it’s got offer a hybrid driving which actually achieves better fuel consumption than what the factory claimed from my driving. So, I think this is, you know, acceptable for whatever the price point you’re looking for. But with that saying, you have to look at the local pricing compared to the charity go for petrol and then think whether the hybrid will actually save you money in the long run. Because in New Zealand, the equivalent charity go for petrol costs $8,000 less if there’s no national discount hybrid or $6,000 less right now with the national discount on the hybrid vehicles. $6,000 is quite a lot for petrol consumption and things like that. Whether you think it’s worth it for your little bit better driving experience and little bit EV driving and better fuel consumption in the daily run or you just get a petrol, save that $6,000 to $8,000 and then use that on fuel. So, that can be a debate against your choices and with yourself. That’s pretty much my verdict about the Cherry Tigle 4 hybrid. What do you think about this car? Please let me know in the comment down below. Thanks for watching. I will see you in the next video.
Full New Zealand review of the 2026 Chery Tiggo 4 Hybrid. In this video I take it for a full drive, explore the interior, features, fuel economy, and see how it compares with other hybrid SUVs in NZ. If you’re considering a practical and efficient non-plug-in hybrid, this might be one to look at.
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