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A crew of motoring consultants from one of the UK’s main car reviewing web sites has topped their car of the yr. After rigorous testing and reviewing, automotive journalists from online market and car reviewing website Carwow have chosen the Chery Tiggo 8 as their Car of the Year.

The Chery Tiggo 8 is manufactured by Chinese car company Chery, one of a number of Chinese automotive manufacturers which have made a vital impression in the UK in current years. Similar to manufacturers like Jaecoo and Seal, Chery has been warmly acquired for its worth for money and high quality. This has been mirrored in the Chery profitable each Carwow’s Car of the Year award and their Hybrid Hero award.

Explaining why the Tiggo 8 had triumphed, Chief Content Officer at Carwow Mat Watson said: “Chery’s debut to the UK market couldn’t have impressed me more. The Tiggo 8 is one of those cars that seems almost too good to be true.

“It’s a premium-feeling SUV with masses of space for seven occupants, a cutting-edge hybrid system, all the luxurious equipment you could possibly need… but it prices about the similar as a European hatchback.

“If a Chinese car was ever going to conquer the market, it should be this one. It’s unbeatable value and feels like so much more than a budget family bus.” Price-wise, the Chery Tiggo 8 compares extraordinarily favourably to similar-looking and similarly-sized European rivals akin to the Audi Q7.

According to Carwow, while the RRP (Regular Retail Price) of an Audi Q7 ranges between £70,66 and £99,975, the RRP of a Chery Tiggo 8 sits between £28,545 and £36,545. Meanwhile, fellow Chinese model Jaecoo, who manufacture the fashionable Range Rover-esque Jaecoo 7, secured model of the yr.

On this, Mat added: “Jaecoo feels like it’s been selling cars in the UK for no more than five minutes, yet it’s taken the market by storm. It’s already nipping at the heels of the best-sellers and the Jaecoo 7 SUV has topped enquiries charts on the Carwow platform this year.

“No surprise; Jaecoo vehicles look cool, pack masses of commonplace tools and but value far much less than alternate options from European, Japanese or Korean manufacturers.”

It comes as statistics indicate Chinese cars are capturing an increasingly larger portion of the UK’s market.

Renowned electric car reviewing publication Electrifying.com recently examined data from the SMMT (Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders) which revealed that the likes of BYD, Changan, Chery, GWM, Jaecoo, KGM, Leapmotor, Omoda, Skywell, and Xpeng now command 4.8 per cent of the UK market.

Commenting on this, automotive journalist Ginny Buckley suggested some major European names might collapse in the coming years.

She wrote: “So, might these new manufacturers sound the death knell for some present ones? Will we see a Kodak second in the car industry – a large identify vanishing as a result of it could not cut via fast enough as the technology shifted? Put merely, yes.

“My view is simple: not all brands will survive. You’ve only got to look at those currently suffering most. Will we be able to buy a new Seat in 10 years’ time when we’ve all gone electric? I don’t think so. And will all the Stellantis brands still be around? I suspect not.”