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Cheaper to buy isn’t cheaper to own

Comparing the Chery Tiggo 4 Cross (R309 900) and Kia Seltos (R389 995 – R614 995) – see how price, engine, warranty and safety stack up below.

The instalment, the fuel bill and the five-year figure — worked out on your deposit, your rate and your driving. Every specification below comes from a verified record.

The five-year figure is finance instalments and fuel only — it does not include servicing, insurance, tyres or depreciation. It is a cost-to-buy-and-run comparison, not a full cost of ownership.

Fuel costs aren't shown because we haven't confirmed the test standard behind one of these figures. Chery Tiggo 4 Cross reports NEDC; we haven't confirmed which test standard applies to the Kia Seltos figure. Without a confirmed standard we can't compare them reliably, so we withhold the fuel cost rather than publish a misleading one.
Your numbers
Chery Tiggo 4 Cross
Chery

Tiggo 4 Cross

LiT CVT 1.5L
R309 900
Price as at 3 Aug 2026
Total per month
R5 417/month excl. fuel
21/23 verified · 1 N/A
Full specifications
Kia Seltos
Kia

Seltos

Full range · 7 derivatives
R389 995 – R614 995
Price as at 22 Sep 2026
20/24 verified
Full specifications
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Every specification below describes one derivative of each range — Kia Seltos, the Seltos 1.5 LS MAN. Figures for the other derivatives are on each model’s own page.
Cost to own
Running costs are shown for one side only. Kia Seltos is a record that covers a whole model range, so the instalment and the fuel bill depend on which derivative you buy — a single monthly figure would be one we invented. The purchase price is shown as the range it covers, and every specification below names the derivative it describes.
Purchase price
R309 900
R389 995 to R614 995
Monthly instalment
R5 417
Depends on derivative
Still owing after five years
R61 044
Depends on derivative
Fuel cost and total cost-to-own are not shown for this comparison — see note above.
Engine and drivetrain
Engine
1.5 L
1.5 L
Power
83 kW−2 kW
85 kW
Torque
138 Nm−6 Nm
144 Nm
Transmission
CVT
6-speed manual
Drivetrain
FWD
FWD
Gears
Not published
6
Fuel and range
Consumption
7.3 L/100km+1.1 L/100km
6.2 L/100km
Tank size
51 L
47 L−4 L
CO2 emissions
167 g/km
Not published
Space and practicality
Seats
5
5
Doors
5
5
Boot (all seats up)
340 L−107 L
447 L
Boot (behind 2nd row)
340 L−107 L
447 L
Boot (seats folded)
1 063 L
Not published
Ground clearance
180 mm−20 mm
200 mm
Length
4 351 mm
4 460 mm
Most manufacturers don’t state which measurement standard they use, so boot figures are approximate for comparison.
Ownership and cover
Warranty
5 yr / 150 000 km
5 yr / Unlimited
Included plan
Service plan — 4 services / 3 years / 45 000 km
Service plan — 3 services / 3 years / 45 000 km
Service interval
15 000 km / 12 mo
15 000 km
Spare wheel
Space-saver
Full-size · unverified
Service network
~95 authorised service points, as at 2 September 2026 In all 9 provinces. Counted 2 September 2026 from Chery South Africa's own dealer list at /dealers, which totals itself: "Dealerships (99)". Four of the 99 are outside South Africa - Botswana, Eswatini, Mozambique and Zambia, all filed under the list's "Other" province - leaving 95. Chery's list does not distinguish outlets that service vehicles from sales-only ones, so this counts dealer outlets.
~76 authorised service points, as at 18 August 2026 In all 9 provinces.
Safety and off-road
Safety rating
No crash-test rating for this version
No crash-test rating for this version
Airbags
4−2
6

What we haven’t verified yet

Blank cells are figures the manufacturer doesn’t publish for South Africa, or that we haven’t confirmed against an official source. We leave them empty rather than estimating them. A third kind of blank is different again: some fields don’t apply to a vehicle at all — an electric car has no fuel tank — and those are named separately below and left out of that vehicle’s verified count, which is why the counts on the cards above can be out of different totals.

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Cost-to-own figures are illustrative only: a standard reducing-balance loan calculation using the deposit, trade-in, balloon, interest rate, term and driving assumptions above, plus fuel at the price you set. They exclude insurance, licensing and servicing, and are not a loan quote — get a real quote from our Finance Calculator. Specifications shown are the fields we’ve verified against official South African sources for each vehicle; anything not shown is marked “Not published” rather than estimated.

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