[fightingtorque]

I have never driven an automatic chery. in general, adding automatic transmission always reduces the performance of the car a little, because there is some energy loss in the torque converter (does the job of the clutch, between the engine and transmission) and also the automatic usually has less gears than the manual, so the engine speed cannot be as near to optimum. so if you are worried about performance of the big car with the fairly small engine, it could be a problem.

if you have no racing aspirations, then it doesn't matter too much. especially if you drive mainly in city traffic.

modern automatic transmissions are electronically controlled and much nicer to drive than the older ones, I am not sure how the chery transmission works, it might be a simple non-electronic one.

 

[fightingtorque]

only a couple of points on the luxury spec: I am a little over 6 foot tall (think that's about 180something in cm) and the headroom in my car (no sunroof and cloth seats) is fine, but the sunroof eats into the headroom whilst the leather seats seem to be firmer or higher or something such that I found the leather & sunroof combination car was not tall enough for me. If you are a tall bloke make sure you sit in one first to check.

I don't think the wood is real.

 

[fightingtorque]

If this was a DRAG race , The ferrari guy would finish , eat 2 hotdogs , drink his pepsi and then the chery would've made it after all that

actually, in a race composed of driving plus eating challenges I will always win. my driving is actually not that special but I can really eat!