Tank 300 just fired, tank 500 fired again, 1 hour order more than 20,000 units

"Stop taking orders", such a sentence is often only heard when the express driver clocks in and out of work, but who can think that there will be manufacturers who use sales data as the main way of making money to do such a thing, and this stop receiving orders is not a clothing accessories, daily necessities, but a Chinese automobile manufacturer - the Great Wall.

Due to production capacity problems, great wall luxury off-road vehicle brands have repeatedly announced that they will stop receiving new orders for various models of its tank 300, and the unexpected popularity has made great walls raise their eyebrows. And the tens of thousands of tanks ordered out of the tank 300 have not yet been fully delivered, and the tank 500 is coming again.

As a flagship SUV, we should actually call this tank 500 that continues to use a non-load-bearing body structure as a HUV, which will not reach the purebred ORV level of Jeep Wrangler and Land Rover Defender in terms of off-road performance, but it is far more than the hardcore SUVs with load-bearing body structure.

Through the illustration of the appearance of the tank 500, our first impression of the car is still "SUV". The boxy body style will remind us of Japanese luxury SUVs such as the Lexus LX and Infiniti QX80, and at the same time, it will appear softer than the Toyota Land Cruiser, and the pillar structure and the muscle blocks brought out by the stamping process in the body panel show off the hardcore positioning of the vehicle.

In the creation of some key off-road structures, we not only saw the wide-body design that can alleviate the collision in the front and rear bumpers of the vehicle, but also saw the 18-inch/19-inch/20-inch all-terrain wheels on the side, plus the full-size spare tire on the rear of the car, and the two different styles of ultra-wide metal grilles in the front of the car, and the overall temperament emitted was also full of tough guy flavor.

At the same time, the body of the Tank 500 is more than "large", which can reach a wide body of 5070 (4878)/1934/1905mm through the sporty appearance kit, and also lays a solid foundation for off-road performance in dynamic driving in the chassis' off-road parameter setting.

The tank 500 achieved a minimum ground clearance of 224mm by elevating the overall chassis, and its deepest wading depth was also as high as 800mm (700mm for the business version), which had surpassed the Mitsubishi Pajero and was on par with the Ford Roadbreaker. Similarly, the tank 500's 29.6° approach angle, 22° pass angle, and 24° departure angle also shows once again that it is not an extreme off-road driving vehicle, but a HUV between the SUV and the ORV.

Of course, in order to enhance the vehicle's off-road attributes and make it closer to the Toyota Land Cruiser, great wall for the tank 500 to add a set of third-generation intelligent four-wheel drive system from BorgWarner and rear axle differential lock, which can achieve low-speed four-wheel drive, four-wheel drive locking, torque amplification (x2.64 times), tank turning and other functions. However, if you want to get advanced, its front axle differential lock and wading induction system still need to pay extra, and the electromagnetic induction suspension system that can adaptively adjust the softness and hardness of the suspension is also optional, which can improve the support performance of the vehicle in complex road conditions, but also optimize the driving comfort in urban road conditions.

The difference between luxury off-road vehicles and off-road vehicles is reflected in the cabin of tank 500.

Starting from the lowest model, the cabin of the tank 500 is covered with a large number of leather and soft bags, and the 12.3-inch digital dashboard and 14.6-inch LCD touch screen that can realize functions including real-time navigation, mobile phone interconnection, remote car connection, voice interaction, etc. are also standard in the whole series, and the driving assistance can also achieve full-speed adaptive cruise + 360-degree panoramic image. Of course, in the cabin of the low-wearing car, there will also be functional accessories such as zone automatic air conditioning, multi-colored mood lights, rear privacy glass, front power seats and so on.

After entering the middle and high-end configuration, the tank 500 will add blind zone monitoring, automatic parking and L2+ level assisted driving system at the driver assistance level, and the infotainment level will add a head-up display, face recognition, rear multimedia control and 12-speaker YanFeilis audio system, and optionally install streaming media rearview mirrors; while the cabin use level will upgrade the steering wheel to fully electric adjustment, add an atmosphere system to the air conditioner, add a sunshade in the rear, and let the front leather seats achieve massage, so that the heating/ventilation function can be covered to the whole car. No luxury link is inferior to the real German and Japanese luxury brands.

In terms of powertrain, in addition to the 2.0T engine, the tank 500 has also obtained the E30Z model 3.0T twin-turbo V6 engine independently developed by great wall, which provides 260kW (354Ps)/500N·m power parameters at the same time, and also obtains the blessing of the 48V light hybrid system.

More importantly, we ushered in the domestic 9AT longitudinal gearbox for the first time on the transmission system of the tank 500, and with the crystal electronic gear in the cabin, it was easy to use and good looking. Although from some performance data, the thermal efficiency of 38.5% of the 3.0T engine and the speed ratio range of 8.843 of the 9AT gearbox cannot be squeezed into the forefront of the current international market, but the independent core technology can take this solid step, which is already valuable.

Write at the end

The medium and large luxury off-road vehicle tank 500, which was sold at a high threshold of 335,000 yuan, was ordered more than 20,000 units within 1 hour of the pre-sale in early March, and the single-month order exceeded 40,000 units, and in order to prevent "scalper speculation", Great Wall Tank also simplified the order process of the tank 500. Although from these 40,000 orders are not known how many orders can be cashed, it cannot be said that the tank 500 has become completely, from the data we find out on it, the configuration used, and the hardware seen, you have to admit that the tank 500 is indeed "successful" at the level of autonomous luxury off-road vehicles or HUVs.