Which Chery Bonus 3 (E3/A19) version to buy — and why there is only one answer

If you are choosing a Chery Bonus 3 (E3/A19), the catalogue does not give you a ladder of engines, gearboxes, or generations to climb. The model ran as 1 generation from 2014-08-01 to 2016-11-30. That generation is a Sedan. It lists 1 version: 1.5 MT. Buying this car is not a comparison between two Chery Bonus 3 (E3/A19) trims; it is a decision to take 1.5 MT or to look at another model.

Which Chery Bonus 3 (E3/A19) version to buy — and why there is only one answer

If you are choosing a Chery Bonus 3 (E3/A19), the catalogue does not give you a ladder of engines, gearboxes, or generations to climb. The model ran as 1 generation from 2014-08-01 to 2016-11-30. That generation is a Sedan. It lists 1 version: 1.5 MT. Buying this car is not a comparison between two Chery Bonus 3 (E3/A19) trims; it is a decision to take 1.5 MT or to look at another model. The numbers below are only those recorded for 1.5 MT. Where a figure is missing, it is written as not measured.

Specs of the only version: 1.5 MT

1.5 MT is Gasoline, 1497 cm³, 4 cylinders, Inline, boost No, 109 hp (80 kW) at 6000 rpm, 140 Nm at 4500 rpm. The engine sits Front, transverse. Injection is Distributed injection (multi-point). Compression ratio is 10.5. Bore and stroke are 82 × 75.6. Fuel in the data is 92. The gearbox is Manual with 5 gears. Drive is FWD. Emissions class is Euro 4.

Those labels are the whole mechanical identity of the car. There is no second Bonus 3 (E3/A19) engine to pair against 1.5 MT, no Automatic row, no AWD row, and no restyling generation with a different power figure. Two versions with the same name would be split by horsepower; here the name 1.5 MT appears once, at 109 hp.

Engine: what 109 hp and 140 Nm actually buy on 1497 cm³

Power per litre for 1.5 MT is 109 / 1.497 ≈ 72.8 hp/L (80 / 1.497 ≈ 53.4 kW/L). Torque per litre is 140 / 1.497 ≈ 93.5 Nm/L. Those ratios sit on a naturally aspirated map: boost is No, so the 109 hp is not a turbo peak that arrives early and then falls off. Peak power is at 6000 rpm; peak torque is at 4500 rpm. The gap is 1500 rpm. In a 5-speed Manual, that means the useful pull of 140 Nm is not at idle or in the first third of the tachometer. You work the gearbox to keep the engine near 4500–6000 rpm if you want the figures the data actually lists.

Valves per cylinder are 4, so 1.5 MT is a 16-valve Inline 4 on 1497 cm³. That is arithmetic on the given cylinder and valve counts, not a second engine. Compression 10.5 and fuel 92 are the octane and ratio pair in the file; there is no higher-compression or premium-only variant to choose instead.

If you hoped a later generation would add boost, a larger displacement, or more gears, the catalogue does not show it. 1 generation starts 2014-08-01 and stops 2016-11-30. Production window length is 27 months (from August 2014 through November 2016). Nothing in the data records a mid-cycle engine change inside that window.

Performance: 14.1 s and 175 km/h, mpg not measured

1.5 MT reaches 100 km/h in 14.1 s. Top speed is 175 km/h. City consumption is not measured. Highway consumption is not measured. Combined consumption is not measured. CO2 is not measured.

You cannot rank 1.5 MT against a sibling Bonus 3 (E3/A19) on 0–100 or top speed, because no sibling exists. You also cannot claim an mpg figure: all three consumption fields are empty. A missing mpg row is not “this car uses no fuel”; it is not measured. Anyone searching Chery Bonus 3 E3 A19 mpg will not find a catalogue number here.

What you can compute is how heavy each horsepower is and how much power sits on each tonne of kerb mass. Kerb weight of 1.5 MT is 1208 kg. 1208 / 109 ≈ 11.08 kg per hp. 109 / (1208 / 1000) ≈ 90.2 hp per tonne. Those two ratios explain the 14.1 s better than a marketing sentence: 109 hp moving 1208 kg, FWD, Manual 5, no boost. Gross weight is not measured, so you cannot recompute the same ratios at full load. If you load the car to an unknown gross, the 14.1 s and 175 km/h no longer describe the vehicle you are driving.

Tank volume is 42 L. Without measured consumption, range is not measured. You know how much fuel fits; you do not know how far 1.5 MT goes on 42 L from this dataset.

Dimensions, weight, clearance: what 1208 kg and 151 mm decide

Kerb weight: 1208 kg. Gross weight: not measured. Ground clearance: 151 mm. Wheel sizes: not measured. Fuel tank: 42 L.

151 mm is the only ground-clearance number in the file. There is no “raised” Bonus 3 (E3/A19) and no lowered one. Wheel size cannot be used to choose a version: it is not measured. If you care about tyre diameter, offset, or a winter-wheel package, this catalogue does not separate versions by wheels because it does not list wheels at all.

Front suspension of 1.5 MT: Independent, spring. Rear: Independent, spring. Front brakes: Ventilated disc. Rear brakes: Disc. Drive: FWD. Those chassis labels do not change across a second trim; they are the only chassis in the model.

Because gross mass is not measured, payload is not measured. You cannot subtract kerb from gross. 1208 kg is the equipped figure you have; everything above it is outside the data.

Generations: 1 generation, 1 version — nothing later changed the arithmetic

1 generation (keys in the source: generation 800) is the entire Bonus 3 (E3/A19) story: Sedan, 2014-08-01–2016-11-30, 1 modification. Restyling is not listed as a separate generation and must not be invented as one. There is no “2 generation” with a different 0–100, a different kerb weight, or a different gearbox.

So the usual buyer questions collapse:

The extra money in this catalogue does not buy a second Bonus 3 (E3/A19) engine. There is no +hp, +Nm, or −kg row to justify a higher trim. Arithmetic between versions is empty because the version count is 1. Arithmetic inside 1.5 MT is the only comparison that stays true when a paragraph is copied out of this article.

Which version to choose

Choose 1.5 MT if 109 hp, 140 Nm, 1497 cm³ Gasoline, Inline 4, boost No, Manual 5, FWD, 14.1 s to 100 km/h, 175 km/h, 1208 kg, 151 mm clearance, 42 L tank, Euro 4, and fuel 92 match what you will accept. That is the full mechanical offer of Chery Bonus 3 (E3/A19) in this dataset.

Do not choose a “stronger” Bonus 3 (E3/A19): it is not in the data. Do not choose a later generation for better economy: consumption is not measured even on this one version, and no later generation is listed. Do not choose by mpg, CO2, gross weight, or wheel size: all of those are not measured.

If 14.1 s, 11.08 kg/hp, or 90.2 hp/t is too slow or too heavy for how you drive, the next step is another model, not another Bonus 3 (E3/A19) line in this table. If you need measured combined consumption, a second gearbox, or a second body, this catalogue does not contain them.

1.5 MT is the version to buy when you want this model at all. The numbers that describe it are 109 hp, 80 kW, 140 Nm, 1497 cm³, 1208 kg, 14.1 s, 175 km/h, 151 mm, 42 L. Everything else a buyer usually uses to pick between versions is not measured or does not exist as a second row.