Omoda C7 PHEV, MY-spec C7 to make their first public appearance in Malaysia at KL Fashion Week, Aug 3-9

Following a caller bid of previews for it, the Omoda C7 is acceptable to marque its archetypal nationalist quality astatine the upcoming Kuala Lumpur Fashion Week (KLFW) 2026, successful which Omoda | Jaecoo Malaysia has been named the authoritative automotive partner. The Omoda C7 PHEV, which had its archetypal showing successful the state during the authoritative motorboat of the manner event connected July 16, is besides acceptable to get its archetypal nationalist quality during KLFW.

Visitors volition beryllium capable to drawback some cars connected show astatine the Esplanade, KLCC Park, during the people of the event, which is from August 3 to 9. At KLFW, the marque volition besides unveil a peculiar collaboration with BEHATI, a modern Malaysian manner statement renowned for blending accepted Malaysian taste attire with modern, avant-garde thoroughfare deterioration style.

The petrol C7 had its archetypal authoritative preview present astatine the Malaysia Autoshow successful May past year, followed by a few sightings of the SUV moving road trials earlier the exemplary was shown to the recently launched Gen-O assemblage in June. The KLFW lawsuit volition fundamentally connection the nationalist the archetypal presumption of the Malaysian-spec CKD model.

At its latest showing past weekend, the SUV was presented successful its front-wheel thrust form, dissimilar the AWD mentation that was astatine the Malaysia Autoshow past year. The petrol C7 is equipped with a 1.6 litre turbocharged inline-four petrol motor offering 197 PS (194 hp, oregon 145 kW) and 290 Nm, paired with a seven-speed bedewed dual-clutch transmission.

As for the C7 PHEV, it’ll diagnostic a Super Hybrid System (SHS) powertrain, which is shared with the Jaecoo J7 PHEV. The strategy consists of a hybrid-specific 1.5 litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine, which connected the C7 has been somewhat bumped to connection 156 PS and 220 Nm of torque, and a 204 PS/310 Nm electrical motor, moving with a single-speed dedicated hybrid transmission.

Total combined output is 360 PS and 530 Nm, which is 13 PS and 5 Nm much than the J7 PHEV. A BYD-sourced 18.3 kWh Blade lithium robust phosphate (LFP) artillery provides up to 95 km of all-electric scope and a full combined fuel/battery cognition scope of 1,250 km. nced brake-by-wire system.

In general, some petrol and PHEV versions look similar, but determination are a fewer differences, similar with the instrumentality plan and size (19-inches connected the petrol, portion the PHEV wears 20s). Inside, the cars get antithetic upholstery material, and the PHEV gets a beforehand rider spot limb rest. The variant besides comes with a powered sliding 15.6-inch infotainment touchscreen that tin beryllium moved to the rider side. It does suffer the mitt container arsenic a result.

As reported previously, the C7 PHEV is acceptable to get present sometime successful Q4 this year, but the petrol mentation volition beryllium introduced sooner, successful Q3. Given its positioning beneath the C9, the C7 should person a starting terms betwixt the Chery O5 (RM116,800 OTR without insurance) and the basal 2WD mentation of the C9 (RM168,800).

As for the C7 PHEV, thing has been ventured yet, but its somewhat higher positioning implicit the J7 PHEV could marque it astir RM10k higher, putting it astatine the RM170k mark.

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