Chery Tiggo 4 Review 2026: Prices, specs and verdict

What is the Chery Tiggo 4?

The Chery Tiggo 4 is the smallest and cheapest car from the already budget-focused Chinese carmaking giant, Chery.

Chery is a brand of the wider Chery Group (a bit like Volkswagen in the VW Group) that includes the Jaecoo and Omoda brands. Although being founded in 1997 doesn’t seem like that long ago, in China that makes the Chery group one of the most established car companies.

All three Chery brands are now firmly established in the UK, with a combined 36,000 sales in the first quarter of 2026 alone. Chery has, so far, only offered larger SUVs such as the Tiggo 7, 8 and 9 here.

But it’s this, the new Tiggo 4, that has the potential to really build volume for the brand. It’s a compact SUV (the most popular car segment?) with hybrid power and an extremely keen price tag.

It’s been on sale for a while in markets such as Australia, South America and the Middle East, but is now available to order in the UK – and we’ve driven it on home turf. Our in-depth review reveals if this is now the budget SUV of choice.

Verdict: is the Chery Tiggo 4 a good car?

Overall, the Chery Tiggo is well worth a look if you’re after a small SUV that offers good space for the lowest possible price. It feels more upmarket inside than a Dacia Duster or Vauxhall Frontera, gets loads of standard equipment, and its hybrid system is smooth around town. Sadly, the rest of the driving experience – the odd steering in particular – means it’s one to definitely try before you buy.

Pricing, specs & rivals

Pricing for the new Chery Tiggo 4 is easily this car’s biggest selling point. Starting at under £20,000, it’s significantly cheaper than basically every similar rival on the market today.

The range is also pleasingly simple to understand. The entry-level Tiggo 4 Aspire has a tempting sticker price of just £19,995, with Summit trim adding £2,000. There’s only one engine option; Chery’s SHS-H full hybrid system.

To put that price into perspective, the cheapest Dacia Duster full hybrid is over £25,000, and an MG ZS Hybrid+ is £22,000. In fact, the Tiggo 4 is the second cheapest hybrid car in the UK after the small MG3 Hybrid+.

And it’s not as if the Tiggo 4 Aspire is sparsely equipped.  It comes with 17in alloys, LED headlights, climate control, a rear-view camera, adaptive cruise control, dual screen infotainment with wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto and even blind spot monitoring. That’s an impressive tally at this price point.

The Tiggo 4 Summit is even more generously equipped, bringing features such as faux leather upholstery, an electrically adjustable driver’s seat, a 360-degree camera system, upgraded audio, a wireless phone charging pad, all-round parking sensors and a heated steering wheel.

In simple terms, nothing else at this price point offers this much space and comfort features for the money.

Rivals

The Chery Tiggo 4 is priced like a city car but competes with small SUVs on space terms. The only low-cost cars which get close to it in that respect are models like the Vauxhall Frontera, Citroen C3 Aircross, MG ZS and Dacia Duster – but they’re all more expensive spec-for-spec.

Pricier-still hybrid or mild hybrid SUV options include the Renault Captur E-Tech, Nissan Juke Hybrid, Toyota Yaris Cross, Hyundai Kona, Ford Puma, Kia Stonic and Skoda Kamiq.

Interior comfort, quality & technology

For a car that is competing with bare-bones, utilitarian interiors from Dacia and Vauxhall, the Chery Tiggo 4’s cabin is a nice place to sit.

It’s an attractively designed interior, with lots of soft-touch materials across the dash and doors, convincing metallic trim elements and some piano black switchgear. Everything seems pretty solid, too. In perceived quality terms, this Chinese budget SUV is well ahead of its Western brand rivals.

Not everything is perfect, however. The faux leather on Summit trim isn’t the most convincing, and while the driver’s seat offers decent back support and lumbar adjustment, it doesn’t support your thighs all that well. It’s odd that the passenger seat doesn’t have any height adjustment on either trim, too.

Finding a comfortable driving position isn’t too difficult, however, with reach and rake adjustment for the steering wheel (unlike an MG ZS) and well-placed pedals.

The high seating position and tall side windows give you a good view out and forwards, and although the rearward view is a bit restricted the suite of sensors and (on top spec cars) cameras make parking a doddle.

Infotainment, sat-nav, stereo and connectivity

Every Chery Tiggo 4 comes with a pair of 12.3in screens mounted together within the driver’s line of sight on top of the dash.

Chery boasts about the central touchscreen’s Snapdragon processor, which does deliver reasonable responses. There’s plenty of features, too, but the screen’s graphics are a bit low-rent and some of the menus are quite fiddly and convoluted. The voice control only has a limited range of commands it can complete, too.

Below the central screen you do get some physical climate controls, which is a positive. They’re touch-sensitive buttons and a touch fiddly to operate, but it’s better than having the climate functions buried in touchscreen menus.

You also get wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, while Summit spec adds a 50-watt wireless charging pad with a cooling fan to keep your smartphone cool.

For charging and wired connectivity, there are two USB-A connectors up front (one in the mirror surround for your dashcam) and another USB-C below the centre console. There is only a single USB-C charger in the rear for your passengers to fight over, but that’s not too bad for a cheap car.

What isn’t great is the audio system in the car I tested. When hooked up to DAB radio the sound was surprisingly tinny, lacking any treble or clarity. And that’s with the upgraded six-speaker system, so we only imagine how bad the entry-level four-speaker system is.

How practical is the Chery Tiggo 4?

The Tiggo 4’s dimensions of 4320mm in length, 1830mm in width and 1650mm in height make it significantly longer, wider and taller than a Ford Puma and closer in size to the Vauxhall Frontera.

That means passenger space is very good in the Chery. There’s no shortage of headroom and legroom up front, along with decent cabin width for a relatively small car.

In the back, the Tiggo 4 really delivers on space. A pair of six footers can sit comfortably enough behind adults of a similar size, with decent kneeroom, enough space to slide their feet under the front seat and acres of headroom thanks to that high roof.

It could serve as a budget family car without much compromise. Granted, getting three adults across the rear seats for anything other than a very short lift won’t be easy, but that’s the same with many small SUVs.

Storage and boot space

Storage for odds and ends in the front of the Tiggo 4 is pretty good, with door bins that can hold large water bottles, a deep under armrest cubby, a space under the centre console itself, a pair of cupholders and a reasonable glovebox.

In the rear you’ll find smaller but still useable door bins, along with a pair of cupholders in the flip down centre armrest and a pair of pockets on the front seatbacks. Many cheap cars such as this lack a rear centre armrest entirely.

The Tiggo 4’s 430-litre boot is also significantly larger in capacity terms than your average £20k car, although it is only slightly down on the Dacia Duster and MG ZS’s capacity. There’s not much in the way of features in the boot itself rather than a couple of hooks and a few tiny slots to hold items under the boot floor, but the opening is a good size.

It’s a shame the car’s 12-volt battery creates a lump in the floor, though. The capacity extends to 1,155 litres with the rear seats folded flat, which they do in a 60/40 split that’s typical for a small SUV. All and all, practicality is a real strong point of the smallest Chery model.

Performance & drive: What is the Chery Tiggo 4 like on the road?

Both UK versions of the Tiggo 4 come with the Chery Group’s ‘SHS-H’ full hybrid system. It’s a ‘self-charging’ hybrid rather than a plug-in hybrid, and it’s similar to what’s found in the Omoda 5 and Jaecoo 5.

Other markets get a pure petrol version of the Tiggo 4, but if it’s anything like the noisy and inefficient 1.6-litre turbo unit found in cars like the Omoda 5 we aren’t missing out on too much.

The hybrid system mates a 1.5-litre four-cylinder turbo petrol engine to an electric motor and small battery pack, alongside a three-speed automatic transmission.

That’s a similar setup to what you’ll find in the MG ZS and Dacia Duster, and it’s relatively simple: the engine acts as a generator running at fixed revs most of the time to charge up the battery, but can also directly power the wheels.

Performance isn’t perhaps as strong as the combined 204hp suggests, but the Tiggo 4 hybrid certainly isn’t sluggish. You just have to be patient, as when you initially stamp on the throttle performance is merely adequate until the electric motor, engine and gearbox have all synced up to propel you along. Then, it feels reasonably brisk.

The Tiggo 4 doesn’t seem to have much regenerative braking adjustment, always applying a small amount of regen as soon as you lift of the throttle. But the brake pedal itself has a natural response. Sport mode makes the throttle too sharp, though, which makes low-speed progress jumpy.

Power, 0-62mph times

• Chery Tiggo 4 SHS-H: 204hp, 8.9 secs

Ride and handling

Arguably the weakest area of the Chery Tiggo 4 is on-road handling. Clearly, that isn’t going to be top of the priority list for people looking for a low-cost runabout such as this, but it’s worth mentioning all the same.

There’s no huge issue with comfort, as it irons out lumps and bumps reasonably well and only gets a bit bouncy on some of the jagged tarmac the UK has nowadays. At higher speeds, it’s reasonably stable.

The main issue is the steering. That it’s light and doesn’t give you any feel is forgivable in a cheap car, but I found the lack of self-centring either side of straight ahead really strange. I could place the car in a gentle constant bend and the wheel stays where it is, rather than return to the centre like almost every other car.

That means constant corrections just to stay in a straight line, and while it’s something you might get used to over time I found it a big irritation on this initial drive. There’s an awful of body lean if you push hard in the bends, too, and grip levels are only modest even in the dry.

Noise and refinement

Around town and on lower speed country roads the Tiggo 4 is refined for a cheap SUV. Road noise isn’t intrusive, the engine is either idling or off entirely and my test car didn’t have any noticeable rattles and squeaks.

Things are less serene on faster roads or at motorway speeds. When you demand full power, you’ll get a few seconds of near silence until the engine’s full potential is needed, when revs soar to the maximum and you find yourself wincing until it calms down. Wind noise is noticeable at a 70mph cruise, too, and the audio system isn’t much cop at drowning it out.

Euro NCAP: is the Chery Tiggo 4 a safe car?

The Chery Tiggo 4 was crash tested by Euro NCAP in 2025, receiving a rating of four stars out of five. That’s a better performance than the Dacia Duster, and on a par with the MG ZS.

Category scores of 79% for adult occupant protection and 85% for child protection are better than the MG too, while vulnerable road user and safety assist scores are strong.

There’s an extensive array of driver aids as standard in the Tiggo 4. This includes the usual autonomous emergency braking with pedestrian and cyclist detection, along with lane keeping aids, driver monitoring and speed limit assist.

Further to that, there’s adaptive cruise control, blind spot detection, rear cross-traffic alert and even a safe exit alert system to stop you, for example, opening your door into the path of a cyclist. Again, that’s impressive at this price level.

Running costs and fuel economy

The Tiggo 4 is officially capable of 53.2mpg combined on the WLTP cycle. That’s decent enough for a budget car, but bear in mind that the MG ZS manages a couple more miles per gallon on the same test, while the Dacia Duster Hybrid and Renault Captur E-Tech promise over 60mpg.

Having said that, my experience of the Tiggo 4 on the car’s UK launch route showed it was easy to comfortably exceed this figure in real-world driving. That’s only according to the car’s MPG readout, though, so it remains to be seen how accurate that is.

CO2 emissions of 120g/km means a first-year tax rate of £455, reducing to the standard £200-a-year rate after that – no hardship when the car is so cheap to begin with.

Chery also doesn’t skim on its warranty offering, offering a seven-year or 100,000-mile guarantee. While an MG3 also has a seven-year warranty, the mileage limit is 80,000 miles.

How much does the Chery Tiggo 4 cost to insure?

Chery has yet to publish insurance group data for the Tiggo 4, but given its pricing and performance level we’d expect it to be the brand’s cheapest model to insure. Based on other cars within the Chery Group (such as the Omoda 5) we’d expect the Tiggo 4 to sit at or below insurance group 25.