Compare · 2 vehicles

Cheaper to buy isn’t cheaper to own

Comparing the Chery Tiggo 4 Cross (R279 900) and Renault Duster (R549 999) – 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 — and that's the finding, not a gap in our data. Chery Tiggo 4 Cross reports NEDC; Renault Duster does not state which test standard was used. Figures from different test standards can't be compared directly, so we withhold the fuel cost rather than publish a misleading one.
Your numbers
Lowest instalment
Chery Tiggo 4 Cross
Chery

Tiggo 4 Cross

LiT MT 1.5L
R279 900
Price as at 3 Aug 2026
Total per month
R4 892/month excl. fuel
22/24 verified
Full specifications
Renault Duster
Renault

Duster

1.2 Turbo Zen 4WD Mild Hybrid (MHEV)
R549 999
Price as at 9 Sep 2026
Total per month
R9 613/month excl. fuel
24/24 verified
Full specifications
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Cost to own
Purchase price
R279 900
R549 999+R270 099
Monthly instalment
R4 892
R9 613+R4 721
Still owing after five years
R55 135
R108 339+R53 204
Fuel cost and total cost-to-own are not shown for this comparison — see note above.
Engine and drivetrain
Fuel type
Not published
95 unleaded
Engine
1.5 L
1.2 L
Power
83 kW−13 kW
96 kW
Torque
138 Nm−92 Nm
230 Nm
Transmission
5-speed manual
6-speed manual
Drivetrain
FWD
4x4
Gears
5
6
Fuel and range
Consumption
7 L/100km+1.3 L/100km
5.7 L/100km
Tank size
51 L−4 L
55 L
CO2 emissions
159 g/km+22 g/km
137 g/km
Space and practicality
Seats
5
5
Doors
5
5
Boot (all seats up)
340 L−116 L
456 L
Boot (behind 2nd row)
340 L−116 L
456 L (VDA)
Boot (seats folded)
1 063 L−485 L
1 548 L
Braked towing
Not published
1 500 kg
Ground clearance
180 mm−37 mm
217 mm
Length
4 351 mm
4 343 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 / 150 000 km
Included plan
Service plan — 4 services / 3 years / 45 000 km
Service plan — 3 services / 3 years / 45 000 km (can be declined)
Service interval
15 000 km / 12 mo
15 000 km / 12 mo
Spare wheel
Space-saver
Full-size
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.
~78 authorised service points, as at 18 August 2026 In all 9 provinces. 80 unique entries in Renault SA’s dealer locator, less Renault Botswana and Renault Windhoek, gives 78; 9 of 9 sampled dealers offer servicing.
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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