Qoros is a joint venture established by Chery Automobile and Israel Automotive Group, and is a completely independent company from Chery. Qoros' core team are all well-known figures in the European automotive industry, mainly from BMW, Volkswagen and Saab Automotive Group. As a car company founded in China and determined to enter Europe at the beginning of its establishment, Qoros made its debut at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show and was a great success, and Qoros' first product, Qoros 3 sedan, received the highest score in the crash test of EURO NCAP in 2013, which shocked the world car industry for a while.
 
The Qoros 5 SUV is Qoros' fourth production model and the brand's first true SUV model. The car was officially unveiled at the 2015 Guangzhou Auto Show and officially launched in March 2016.
 
The Qoros 5 SUV is still equipped with the 1.6T engine on the Qoros 3, but this time the engine on the Qoros 5 has two power tuning schemes. The manual transmission version maintains the power output scheme of Qoros 3 sedan: 115kW/5500rpm, 210Nm/1750-5000rpm; The automatic version has slightly more torque, reaching 230Nm at 2500-4500rpm. However, it should be noted that the maximum torque starting speed of this high-torque version has been delayed to 2500rpm, which is not good news for heavier SUVs.
 
The Qoros 5 SUV also retains the 6-speed front-speed dual-clutch transmission offered by GETRAG. However, the 0-100 km/h acceleration of the Qoros 5 SUV takes 12 seconds to complete. On the one hand, the low torque of the engine is very weak, and the gearbox matching is also very problematic, and the power cannot be transmitted quickly. Due to this delayed power system, the engine speed of the Qoros 5 SUV is often above 2000 rpm, unlike the Volkswagen or Japanese CVT pie, which presses to about 1500 rpm at the first opportunity, which greatly affects its fuel consumption performance.
 
How slow is a 1.6T turbocharged compact SUV that accelerates to 100 km/h in 12 seconds? It can be compared with the 1.5T turbocharged Trumpchi GS4 and Changan CS75, which accelerates in just over 11 seconds, while the Hyundai Tucson, which also uses 1.6T power, weighs only 60 kg lighter than it, but it only takes 8.5 seconds to accelerate, not to mention the power of Acura CDX1.5T acceleration in 7 seconds.
 
Qoros' power performance is indeed a bit sorry that it challenges the market positioning of the joint venture brand, and the power system is precisely where there is still a big gap between the Chinese brand and the joint venture brand. At present, the engines and gearboxes independently developed by Chinese brands are not only unable to take into account power and fuel economy, but also have no more successful products even if fuel consumption is sacrificed for power, or power performance is sacrificed for fuel consumption.
 
The steering of Qoros 5 has the feeling of a European car, the steering is lighter and the sense of proportion is good, but its chassis is stiff and does not have the "toughness" of European cars. Honda also has a lot of models with a stiff chassis that leads to a lack of comfort, but it does not affect the conformity of high-speed driving, while the chassis of Qoros 5 seems to be too stiff and lacks conformity and toughness, and even among the SUVs of Chinese brands, it is not the most stable chassis at high speed.
 
Qoros 5 is really "European" in terms of space, although its width and wheelbase are very advantageous in the same class, but its interior space is not large, and its rear row is very small by the standards of the same class. Qoros 5 is more generous performance is not because of the limited space in the rear row, the length of the cushion in the rear row is shortened, if you only open the door to look at the leg margin in the rear row, it feels a little disappointing, but you will find that the comfort is actually guaranteed.
 
Safety equipment has always been Qoros' strong point, and the electronic assistance devices of the Qoros 5 SUV are the same across the entire series, with the difference being only the number of airbags. However, now the joint venture brand has begun to popularize adaptive cruise, collision warning and other configurations, Qoros 5 is also not available.
 
The configuration of Qoros 5 is not high, there are only halogen headlights in the whole system, and the power windows only have a one-button lifting function on the driver's side. There is no 8-inch display on the entry-level stylish center console, and the air conditioner is also a manual air conditioner.
 
There are no statistics on the quality of Qoros' cars, but judging from the quality complaint rate of the China Consumers Association and the feedback from the car enthusiasts' forum, the quality and reliability performance of Qoros 3 and Qoros 5 are not bad, and there are no systematic high failures.
 
In terms of safety, Qoros 5 is undoubtedly a model that stands at the top level of its class, which is an aspect that Qoros has been doing very well, and Qoros 5 has also received a five-star evaluation in the European E-NCAP crash test. Although almost all the cars in this list have obtained the five-star standard of the C-NCAP China crash test, the five-star quality is different, and many European E-NCAP cars with three stars can also get five-star when they come to China.
Qoros 5 evaluation report