What to expect? Omoda preparing hybrid C5 SHS for South Africa

Hybrid C5 will be marketed under the Super Hybrid System or SHS banner. Picture: Omoda & Jaecoo South Africa First announced at the Kyalami Festival of Motoring last year, Omoda & Jaecoo has divulged official details of the incoming hybrid C5. The model that formed base for its “Ten-Country Hybrid Marathon” efficiency record last year, the C5 will arrive in March under the Super Hybrid System or SHS banner.

As with the variant sold as the Chery Omoda 5 in China, the SHS combines the brand’s 1.5 T-GDI engine with a 1.83-kWh battery pack. A powertrain unique to the C5 within the Chery product line-up, the system develops a combined 165kW/310Nm. Paired to a Dedicated Hybrid Transmission (DHT), the C5 SHS will do 0-100 km/h in 7.9 seconds and average 5.3 L/100 km.

The claimed total range is 1 000 km. During the mentioned record attempt in China, the team ofThe Citizen’s Mark Jones and fellow scribe Liana Reiners bettered Omoda’s claim by setting the event’s best consumption of 5.2 L/100 km. Set to become the flagship model of therealigned C5 range, the SHS’s confirmed list of standard features includes: Still to be priced, the C5 SHS is expected to breach the R500 000 mark, thus becoming the most expensive C5 model.

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