[5] It may no longer be popular; the QQ was dropped from a list of top ten bestsellers compiled by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers c.

[8] General Motors claimed the car was a copy of the Daewoo Matiz (which is marketed in some countries as the Chevrolet Spark) and sued Chery in a Chinese court.

[11] Though the Chery QQ and the Daewoo Matiz are superficially similar cars, their safety ratings differ dramatically.

A Euro NCAP front offset crash test showed that the driver's injuries in the QQ are worse than those sustained in the Matiz.

[13] The QQ is available with three gasoline-powered engines (both EURO III compliant): An all-electric version, the Chery QQ3 EV, began deliveries to retail customers in Wuhu, Anhui province in March 2010.

[20] The QQ is available in a number of export markets including Pakistan, Philippines (called QQ3), Singapore, Sri Lanka, South Africa (QQ3),[21] Thailand and Vietnam.

[24] In Iran, production of the QQ followed a 2002 decision from GM to stop supplying Kerman Khodro with Daewoo Matiz knock-down kits.

It is based in a slightly larger QQ3-based platform, with bigger 14' inch wheels as standard and several mechanical improvements, sharing many of its components with previous models of the brand, like the A1 and the Riich M1, as a way to reduce development costs and simplify its assembly process, following a similar strategy to what was done in the Toyota Aygo/Citroën C1/Peugeot 107 line-up (which the new QQ looks similar to by the way).

[31] The Chery eQ, a full-electric minicar based on the new generation QQ, was launched in the Chinese car market in November 2014.

Pricing starts at CN¥59.800 (~US$9,600) after all government incentives for new energy vehicles, making the eQ one of the cheapest electric cars available in country.