Jaecoo’s J8 looks to take on Hyundai Santa Fe and Mazda CX-60 with premium fitout and tantalizing price

Jaecoo has priced its unique top price 5-seat SUV, with a June open date locked in by the Chery sub-imprint. The 2025 Jaecoo J8 continues to push the brands agenda as a luxurious subdivision of Chery, sharing mechanical underpinnings with the Tiggo 8 Educated Max.

Despite six- and seven-seat diversifications of Jaecoo’s J8 being provided in in a foreign country markets, the Australian model will most seemingly be purchased completely with 5 seats. A Chery Spokesperson published to Chasing Autos that they had been “disappointed” to fail to establish Jaecoo’s grandiose six-seat captains chairs.

The Jaecoo J8 will within the muse be provided in two effectively-organized ranges, with drive-away pricing starting from $49,990. Both variants of J8 will most seemingly be purchased with an eight-300 and sixty five days/unlimited-kilometre guarantee and 12-month complimentary roadside relieve kit.

All variants of Jaecoo J8 also include a set of driver safety enhancements, together with:

• Adaptive cruise lend a hand a watch on (ACC)
• Self sustaining emergency braking (AEB)
• Blind intention detection (BSD)
• Lane departure prevention (LDP)
• Emergency lane maintaining (ELK)
• Driver monitoring draw (DMS)
• Eight airbags (10 on Ridge gadgets)
• 360-level compare digicam
• Tyre rigidity monitoring

Jaecoo’s introductory Observe mannequin is with out a doubt marketed in the direction of uncompromising mark, pretty than off-aspect motorway prowess. A front-wheel driver, the Observe is propelled by a 183kW/385Nm two-litre turbocharged four-cylinder and broken-down eight-bustle transmission. Jaecoo claims a mixed gas consumption of 8.3L/100km.

Jaecoo’s vary topping J8 Ridge starts at $54,990 drive-away. It utilises the comparable 183kW four cylinder and eight-bustle automated because the Observe, nevertheless parts a trick torque-vectoring AWD draw, which bumps gas consumption to a claimed 8.6L/100km.

Jaecoo has pushed a top price off-aspect motorway agenda for the J8 Ridge, which beneficial properties rugged drive modes (snow, mud, sand, off-aspect motorway) as well to real damping lend a hand a watch on (CDC), which Jaecoo claims will repeatedly adapt to manufacture optimal comfort and lend a hand a watch on on any terrain.

The Jaecoo J8 is seemingly to measure the comparable as its Chery Tiggo 9 twin, at 4810mm lengthy, 1925mm broad and 1699mm gigantic, with a 2800mm wheelbase.

A monocoque tender-roader, the J8 competitors the $44,190 (MSRP) Subaru Outback, $50,240 (MSRP) Mazda CX-60 and $53,000 (MSRP) Hyundai Santa Fe.

While no unswerving assertion has been made by Jaecoo, there may be a probability that the J8 will most seemingly be provided as a inch-in hybrid. In Can also 2024, Chery published the Tiggo 9 PHEV, an especially close relative of the J8 constructed on the comparable Chery derived T1X platform. The inch-in J8 would seemingly feature a 1.5-litre engine and P2 mounted electrical motor with a claimed 5.2L/100km (WLTC) gas effectivity and a mixed vary of up to 1400km (WLTC).

J8 paint offerings

• Arctic White
• Carbon Sad
• Ocean Blue
• Iridium Silver

$49,990 driveaway J8 Observe 2WD

• Twin 12.3-traipse LCD shows
• 14-speaker sound draw
• Built in GPS navigation
• Apple CarPlay & Android Auto (wired + wireless)
• Luminous affirm account for (Hi there Jaecoo)
• Leather-essentially based completely completely seat effectively-organized
• Heated and ventilated front seats
• LED inside of lights
• Surround compare digicam
• 20-traipse alloy wheels
• Chubby size-spare wheel
• LED daylight operating lights (DRLs)
• LED headlights (projector form)
• Tyre rigidity monitoring draw with level to
• Eight Airbags
• Massaging seats
• Energy tailgate
• 2d-row A/C controls

$54,990 drive-away J8 Ridge AWD

Provides or replaces:

• Extra drive modes (snow/mud/sand/off-aspect motorway)
• Torque vectoring AWD draw
• Steady damping lend a hand a watch on (CDC)
• Automatic parking feature (APA)
• Heated and ventilated seats (2nd Row)
• Coloration selectable ambient lights (1st & 2nd Row)
• 2d row aspect airbags
• Privateness glass (Rear)
• In-constructed scent draw
• Auto dimming rear compare think
• Suede headliner (unlit)