VERDICT
Efficient, keenly priced, but too many usability flaws
★★★★★
The Jaecoo 7 is a more competent and complete family car than many might expect from a brand they’ve never heard of. For those seeking a familyfriendly budget PHEV, it might be worth a test drive. But unless you have extraordinary patience, it’s likely to be the shortest test drive you’ve taken. If you’re like us, you’ll notice that the car is efficient, quite refined and digitally well equipped for the money. And also that it’s so irksome, distracting and poorly calibrated with much of that same digital technology, and with so many other rather careless elements of its fine-tuning, that your faith in the integrity of the product as a whole will be seriously undermined.