Chery Tiggo 4 MY26

It just tells you the price

After four cars, this one is a relief.

Tiggo 4 Urban: $23,990 drive-away. Tiggo 4 Ultimate: $26,990 drive-away. No postcode. No dealership to nominate. No estimate.

And read the disclaimer, because the interesting part is what is not in it:

$23,990 is driveaway price (DAP) for MY26 Tiggo 4 Urban model with no optional extras for new vehicles ordered from participating dealers between 1 October 2026 and 31 December 2026. Not available to fleet, gov't or rental buyers.

There is no state qualification at all.

Every other manufacturer on this site insists a drive-away price cannot be quoted without knowing where you live, and they are right about the arithmetic: the government takes between 3.5% and 7.8% of the bill depending on the border. Chery's answer is to quote one number anyway and absorb the difference itself.

That is why the on-road measure scores well here despite showing you nothing. You cannot see the split, and you cannot be hurt by it. On the other four cars the question "what does my state cost me" has an answer in the thousands. On this one the answer is nothing.

Where it still falls short

The offer page gives one figure, and neither it nor the model page shows a list price or breaks the figure down.

So you can see what the car costs, which is more than Ford or Toyota will tell you, and you still cannot see what portion is the dealership's or what you would be negotiating against. A drive-away figure with no itemisation is a number you can act on but not interrogate. Tesla shows both. Chery shows the one that matters most and stops.

It is also a dated campaign price rather than a standing one, and it excludes fleet, government and rental buyers.

Two dates that do not agree

The offer card says "Offer ends 31 October 2026". The disclaimer under it says the $23,990 applies to orders placed between 1 October and 31 December 2026.

Both are true and they describe different things. The price runs to 31 December. The $1,500 fuel card runs to 31 October. The card header shows the earlier of the two, which reads as though the price expires in October when it does not.

Worth knowing before you let a deadline rush you.

Take the $1,500 as money, not as fuel

Chery's own terms allow it: the fuel card "may be exchanged at point of sale for an equivalent deduction from the driveaway price".

Take the deduction. A fuel card is worth $1,500 only if you spend it the way the card requires, and cash off the price is worth $1,500 whatever you do next.

In New South Wales there may be a second reason, because NSW is the one state that charges stamp duty on what you actually paid rather than on the list price. Ask the dealership whether a lower drive-away figure also lowers the duty line on your contract. On a $1,500 reduction at the 3% rate that is about $45, which is small, and it is the only state where asking is worth anything at all.

The tie, and it is the best of the four conventional brands

Seven years, unlimited kilometres, on the whole vehicle.

That is the headline and, unusually, the headline survives contact with the terms. We went looking for the condition that normally sits under a seven-year warranty and could not find it.

What Chery's warranty policy actually requires is that the vehicle "has been serviced and maintained as per the manufacturer's guidelines", and that you present the Service Booklet when you claim. Service it on schedule and keep the records.

What it does not say anywhere we could find is that the servicing must be done by an authorised Chery dealer.

Set that against the two utes. Ford's seven years requires every scheduled service "completed by an Authorised Ford Dealer". Toyota's seven years covers the engine and driveline only, and requires logbook servicing with Toyota. Chery's seven years covers the whole car and appears to ask only that the car is serviced properly, by somebody competent, on time.

The hybrid's high voltage battery is covered for eight years, unlimited kilometres.

Three things to know before you treat it as unconditional:

• Tyres and batteries are excluded, as they are nearly everywhere.
• Normal maintenance is excluded, which is ordinary: wear items, filters, wiper blades, brake pads, wheel alignments.
• Commercial use is capped at 7 years or 150,000km. Chery defines that as taxi, rideshare, hire, rental, driving school, and delivery or courier work. A tradesperson carrying their own gear is not in that list. Somebody doing food delivery is.

What it can actually tow

Chery publishes the weights and not the towing figure, which is the reverse of Toyota.

And it publishes them per variant, which matters here because the petrol and the hybrid are not the same car.

Tare and GVM are Chery's own, Model Year 2026 specification sheets. Neither sheet prints a payload, so that row is the subtraction.

One caution, because tare is not kerb weight. Toyota's Basic Towing Guide separates them better than most, and the gap is smaller than it sounds:

"Kerb Mass or Weight: the weight of the vehicle including all options, fluids and full fuel tank, but not including accessories. Tare Mass or Weight: is the same as Kerb Weight but with only 10 litres of fuel in the fuel tank instead of a full tank."

That ten litres is the standard Australian definition and Chery's specification sheet does not state its own, so on it, filling a 51 litre tank from tare takes 41 litres, about 31kg, before a single person gets in. Treat the usable figures as roughly 395kg and 380kg. Deduct the full 38kg and you have assumed an empty tank, which tare is not.

Four adults average around 300kg. So this is a five seat car with genuine room for four people and their luggage and not much past it, and the hybrid has 15kg less of that than the petrol.

No towing capacity is published anywhere. The word "tow" does not appear once in either specification sheet, and it is not on the model page. The weights section carries two rows on each sheet and neither is towing. Third party databases list it as unspecified rather than as a figure, which usually means nobody has been given one.

A great many Tiggo 4 buyers will never tow, and a maker not leading with a figure for a small urban SUV is fair enough. Omitting it entirely is a different thing, because the buyer who does want to pull a box trailer has nowhere to look.

Get the braked and unbraked capacities in writing before you order. For scale, a RAV4 2WD tows 800kg braked and a RAV4 AWD tows 1,500kg.

Source: cherymotor.com.au Tiggo 4 and Tiggo 4 Hybrid Specification Sheets, Model Year 2026, and the Tiggo 4 model page, read 24 and 25 October 2026.

The petrol and the hybrid are not the same car

They share a name and a spec sheet format, and almost nothing in the dimensions block matches.

The hybrid is longer and wider, sits lower, and rides on a wheelbase six millimetres shorter. It carries 90kg more and 15kg less.

Only one of them publishes a boot. The petrol sheet's dimensions block has four rows and stops at the wheelbase. The hybrid's has five and ends with 470L. Same maker, same document template, same model year, and the figure a family most wants is on one and not the other.

Against the RAV4

Not published means not on the documents named in Sources below, not that the figure exists nowhere.

A car costing half as much answers four of the six questions the RAV4 leaves open, and the RAV4 answers the one Chery does not. Neither sheet is complete and they are incomplete in opposite directions, which is the useful thing to know before you ask a salesperson for the missing number.

The tyre line is the one that costs money later. Chery prints the size, so a set can be priced today. Toyota prints a rim diameter by grade, 17, 18 or 20 inch, and no tyre specification, so the single figure most likely to surprise a second owner cannot be looked up from the spec sheet at all.

Sources: Chery Tiggo 4 Specification Sheet and Tiggo 4 Hybrid Specification Sheet, both Model Year 2026, cherymotor.com.au, read 25 October 2026. Toyota RAV4 specification table, version MAY 2026, PDF created 12 May 2026.

Servicing is capped for as long as the warranty runs

This is the quiet achievement and nobody else on this site matches it.

Five years: $1,445. Seven years: $2,167. Every one of them capped, published to the cent, before you buy.

Chery is the only car of the five where the capped servicing period and the warranty period are the same length. Ford warrants for seven years and caps servicing for five. Toyota caps the RAV4 for five against a five year warranty and a seven year driveline extension, and caps the HiLux for only three. Chery caps all seven.

Over five years, on each maker's own published figures: Tesla Model Y about $1,075, Toyota RAV4 $1,300, Chery Tiggo 4 $1,445, Ford Ranger $1,995, Toyota HiLux about $3,050.

And then the fuel bill

Here is the catch, and it is a real one.

On the Australian Government's Green Vehicle Guide, the Tiggo 4 1.5T is rated 7.4 L/100km combined, with an annual fuel cost of $1,917 at 14,000km a year.

$651 a year more, which is $3,255 over five years.

The combined figure understates it for most buyers. Urban is 9.6 L/100km, more than double the RAV4's 4.2, and a compact SUV bought for school runs and commutes spends its life in exactly the cycle where this engine is worst.

Total five-year running cost: about $11,030. Servicing $1,445 plus fuel $9,585. The cheapest car here to buy is among the dearest to run.

None of which overturns the case for it. A RAV4 GX starts around $49,816 and this starts at $23,990, so roughly $26,000 of purchase price difference against $3,255 of fuel over five years. The Tiggo 4 stays far cheaper to own. The point is that the gap closes a little every year rather than staying where the sticker put it, and the fuel figure is the one number this car does not win on.

Two caveats on those figures. The Guide's numbers are laboratory results, good for comparing cars and not a promise about your driving. And the Guide's entry is for the model released in 2025; Chery's own site quotes the same 7.4 L/100km for the current car, which is why we are comfortable using it.

The wait

The offer page carries no delivery estimate. The offer is written around vehicles "ordered from participating dealers", and the fuel card is "while stocks last", which suggests stock rather than factory orders is the expectation. Ask.