China’s best-selling vehicles in April a new high for Chery

The combination of the depicted Tiggo Cross and outgoing Tiggo 4 Pro helped set a new sales record for Chery in April. Picture: Chery Chery’s combination of the outgoing Tiggo 4 Pro and Tiggo Cross remained the best-selling Chinese vehicle in April, helping the brand set a new sales record. In a month which saw overall new vehicles failed to be impacted by the ongoing fuel price surge, the Tiggo 4 Pro/Tiggo Cross registered 1 871 units sales.

Although down from March’s 1 888, this placed it fourth behind the Volkswagen Polo Vivo by a scant five sales. However, when not taking the locally produced Vivo’s 29 commercial variant sales into consideration, the Tiggo jumps to third place behind the Toyota Hilux and Ford Ranger. This also makes it South Africa’s top-selling passenger vehicle and imported product.

Excluding its Omoda & Jaecoo and Jetour sub-brands, Chery’s 2 462 vehicles sold in April represent its highest since returning to South Africa five years ago. Behind the Tiggo 4 Pro/Tiggo Cross, the Great Wall Motors (GWM) Haval Jolion maintained its second place with an offset of 1 277 units. At the same time, Baoding-based GWM maintained its position as the Republic’s best-selling Chinese brand, but only just with total sales of 2 485.

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Omoda’s C5 remains the fourth best-seller with an offset of 884, followed by the GWM P-Series on 588 and the Chery Tiggo 7 with 425. Making up the rest of the top 10 were the GWM Haval H6 on 413, the Jetour Dashing on 305 and BYD’s best-seller, the all-electric Dolphin Surf with 302.

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