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Launch Time: March, 2010

Price: 35,000 - 50,000 CNY

Appearance:
The shape of Chana Benni MINI hatchback is small, lovely, fashionable and beautiful, and the face is like an eagle. Benni MINI hatchback’s front air intakes are divided into upper and lower two-layers, have adopted cellular modeling. Rear styling is designed more popularly, and the trunk door uses the glass material. Chana Benni MINI hatchback is 3,520mm long, 1570mm wide, 1490mm high. So from the view of Benni MINI’s body size, Benni MINI hatchback is even smaller than the previous two Benni models, better able to shuttle in urban congested environment. Although the body is smaller, but the Benni MINI's front row room can be still enough, at the same time, the design of high roof is designed to make the head space appear very rich.

Interior Decoration:
Chana Benni MINI’s interior decoration also adopts mainly the same cute style. Round becomes the main figure of the interior design tone, and silver and gray color are the main colors. There are no obvious edges and corners in the overall interior decoration, which is consistent with the style of the shape. It is worth mentioning that Benni MINI hatchback’s interior decoration has made a big progress on the workmanship, especially the details of the linking parts are dealed with very well, and the material is also greener, the smell is not very irritant after a new Benni MINI travels for hundreds of kilometers. Some necessary equipments such as CD and electric windows are completed, which is enough to meet the daily use of drivers.

Power:
Chana Benni MINI will be powered with 1.0-liter C10 engine developed for three years by Chan Motor. The C10 engine is famous, and in 2009 awarded the "2009 Best small-displacement engine". The engine adopts inline four-cylinder DOHC 16-valve design, and the maximum power achieves 51.2Kw/5600rpm, the maximum torque is up to 90N. m/4600rpm. And Chana Motor claims that when C10 is in 2000-300 rpm, the power output can achieve 90% of the maximum, which is the most common rpm range. In fact, for home cars, power is not the major factor in judging, but the Chana Benni MINI hatchback’s engine is indeed a bright spot.

Shortcomings:
As a completely China independent auto brand model, it is unavoidable for Chana Benni MINI hatchback to have some shortcomings such as front air grid is too large, not easy to clean, and there were no temperature display on the instrument panel and so on. And about the details, there are still a lot to need to be improved.


GoChinaAuto.com Summary:
As a China self-developed mini hatchback, the overall performance of Chana Benni MINI is good, which has made a big progress. Meanwhile, Chana Benni Mini is facing a lot of strong competitors such as China Chery QQ hatchback, China Great Wall Cool Bear hatchback, China Great Wall Florid hatchback, China JAC Tonyo hatchback. So if Chana MINI hatchback can succeed to lead China mini car auto market, maybe the right price will be the most important factor.