Christopher Sharp with the Chery Tiggo 8 (Image: Christopher Sharp)

The well-known car reviewing website Carwow has recently announced the Chery Tiggo 8 as their car of the year.

Chief Content Officer Mat Watson commended the Tiggo 8 for its exceptional value and upmarket feel. He 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 loads of space for seven occupants, a cutting-edge hybrid system, all the luxury kit you could want... yet it costs about the same as a European hatchback."

Following such enthusiastic endorsement of the Chery Tiggo 8, I set out to experience it first-hand by taking it for a weekend test drive around London.

The Chery Tiggo 8 (Im

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