JAECOO 8 SHS-P Begins UK Deliveries From £45,500 With 428 PS and 700-Mile Range

The flagship JAECOO 8 SHS-P plug-in hybrid has now reached its first UK customers, with prices starting from £45,500 OTR for the 5+2-seat Luxury and £47,500 OTR for the 4+2-seat Executive. It is the brand’s largest, most powerful and most expensive UK model to date, and the first JAECOO with three rows of seats.

For UK buyers shopping seven-seat plug-in hybrids around the £45,000 to £50,000 mark, the JAECOO 8 SHS-P puts a serious specification on the table: 428 PS, a 1.5-litre turbocharged petrol engine paired with a 34.46 kWh battery, all-wheel drive, 14 g/km CO2 and a combined range of more than 700 miles. The model is on sale now through OMODA&JAECOO’s 136-strong UK retailer network.

Two Versions: Luxury for Families, Executive for Comfort

JAECOO is offering the 8 SHS-P in two distinct layouts. The 5+2-seat Luxury is the family-focused option, with a flexible interior, multiple ISOFIX points and a cabin set up for changing daily routines, school runs and longer trips. It opens at £45,500 OTR.

The 4+2-seat Executive moves the brief towards comfort. Four heated, ventilated and massaging captain’s chairs sit across the first and second rows, with extendable thigh support for the driver and a more open cabin layout. JAECOO says the Executive is aimed at buyers who travel often with a small number of adults and want more rear-seat space than a typical seven-seater offers. Pricing for the Executive starts at £47,500 OTR.

Powertrain: 428 PS, 14 g/km CO2, More Than 700 Miles of Range

Both Luxury and Executive use the same plug-in hybrid powertrain. Chery International’s Super Hybrid System pairs a 1.5-litre turbocharged petrol engine with a 3-mode DHT transmission, a 34.46 kWh battery and all-wheel drive. The combined output is up to 428 PS and 580 Nm of torque, which JAECOO says is good for a 0 to 62 mph time of 5.8 seconds. Official CO2 emissions sit at 14 g/km on the WLTP combined cycle.

The headline figure for most family buyers will be range. JAECOO quotes a combined petrol and electric range of more than 700 miles, which puts the 8 SHS-P comfortably above most petrol-only seven-seat SUVs and ahead of the typical full hybrid rival. For UK households that mix short electric-only commutes with occasional long motorway runs, the powertrain is designed to keep the battery in play around town and rely on the petrol engine on longer trips without forcing a charging stop.

Off-Road Hardware and Lockable Differentials as Standard

JAECOO is also leaning into the off-road side of the brief that buyers used to expect from larger SUVs. The 8 SHS-P includes lockable differentials alongside an adaptive all-terrain response system. That gives it more capability on slippery surfaces and rough tracks than most plug-in hybrid seven-seaters, where the focus tends to be firmly on tarmac. For UK customers who want a hybrid SUV that still copes with farm access roads, horse boxes or boat ramps, this hardware will be a stronger selling point than 0 to 62 mph times.

JAECOO 8 SHS-P UK Warranty and How It Compares

The 8 SHS-P arrives with the brand’s 7-year, 100,000-mile vehicle warranty and an 8-year, 100,000-mile battery warranty. That puts JAECOO at the longer end of mainstream UK warranty offers, where most rivals stop at 5 years or 100,000 miles. For a brand still building consumer recognition, the long warranty is part of a wider effort to give buyers confidence to spend more than £45,000 on a name many UK customers had not heard of two years ago.

The 8 SHS-P sits above the award-winning JAECOO 7, which became the UK’s best-selling new car in March 2026 with more than 10,000 units sold in a single month, and the more compact JAECOO 5. That rapid growth has given JAECOO the dealer footprint to launch a flagship straight into 136 UK retailers from day one, rather than the slow regional rollouts brands like this used to need.

Where the JAECOO 8 SHS-P Fits the UK Market

At £45,500 OTR the 5+2 Luxury undercuts a long list of more familiar seven-seat plug-in hybrid SUVs while offering more power, more range and more off-road hardware than most of them. The Executive at £47,500 OTR moves into more direct shopping territory with premium-badged seven-seat plug-in hybrids, where the brand-recognition gap is wider but the spec advantage is clearer.

For UK households shopping seven seats, the question now is whether they are willing to take a JAECOO badge home to get more standard kit and a longer warranty for the same money. The brand is betting that the strong JAECOO 7 numbers and a growing dealer network are enough to bring those buyers in. Customer deliveries are happening now through the OMODA&JAECOO UK retailer network.