Meet the new cherry on top of Chery’s Australian lineup. The 2024 Chery Tiggo 8 Pro Max arrives as the Chinese brand’s new SUV flagship – at least for now – and is the first seven seater to be offered in the its Australian range. It’s a direct shot at three-row mid-size SUVs like the Honda CR-V , Mitsubishi Outlander and Nissan X-Trail ; as well as slightly larger crossovers like the Hyundai Santa Fe , Kia Sorento , Skoda Kodiaq , and Volkswagen Tiguan Allspace .
Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion. Like its smaller stablemates, the Tiggo 8 Pro Max aims to shake up the establishment with upmarket design, and a high level of standard equipment for a sharp drive-away price. It also offers a powerful turbocharged powertrain that isn’t matched by anything at the price point.
Chery keeps reiterating it’s here for “a long time, not a good time” and continues expanding local development and tuning, and increasing its dealer footprint. It’ll even launch an adventure-focused Jaecoo sub-brand by year’s end. With that said, the Omoda 5 launch in particular was marred with software complaints – largely to do with driver assistance systems – and some disjointed on-road behaviour, forcing the brand to go back to the drawing board and release running changes.
Can the Tiggo 8 Pro Max prove the brand can get it right the first time? Pricing is sharp – the base Urban starts from $41,990 drive-away. To see how the Cher.