Although the high-end hardcore off-road vehicle segment is not a very large-scale market, it has always been a market that does not lack attention, even if Volkswagen has a new car, you may not be able to distinguish the name today, Toyota overlord, land patrol you will still recognize at a glance, because the recognition is too high.
In this market, it can be said that everyone has it, there are people who love adventure travel, buy simply for functionality, feel that hard-core off-road vehicles are safer, buy for their own sense of security, and some big brothers even just because the hard-core off-road vehicles look tiger real, more stylish to pay for the bill, and some people even choose to swipe the card just because the hard-core off-road vehicle sits high, the vision is good, and the real interpretation of what is called fish and dragon mixing.
However, this market has always rarely joined the Chinese brand, although many independent brands have launched similar models, but compared to foreign products such as land patrol, Wrangler, etc., it has not formed enough circle effect, with the gradual decline in product strength, the market share has gradually decreased, behind this, on the one hand, it reflects the brand, word of mouth, technology moat formed by foreign car companies for many years, and on the other hand, independent brands still lack the embodiment of real game-breaking weapons.
Recently, with the official listing of the tank brand's new model Tank 500, the starting price of more than 330,000 yuan in the whole series, coupled with the independently developed 3.0T+9AT powertrain, let us see a wave of Chinese brands to the high-end hardcore off-road vehicle market impact of the strongest sound, after the tank 500 is listed, the attention is naturally also detonated the whole network, then the question is, this high-end model that integrates the great success of Great Wall Motors' technology, can it become a phenomenon-level product?
From the enterprise level, as a well-deserved brother of the domestic SUV market, the Great Wall has been deeply cultivating the SUV market for many years, and it is also the most technical strength of the domestic SUV manufacturing car company, Haval H6 series has long been the world SUV annual sales champion, has become a business card of the Great Wall, and in recent years, Great Wall Motors has also played a marketing, cat series, dog series successfully out of the circle, tank brands are also independent after the tank 300 fire, each brand in a more segmented market to provide more in line with the needs of the product, it can be said In the independent brand SUV market, the Great Wall said second, no one dared to say first, and the first shot of the high-end hardcore off-road market was taken by the Great Wall, which is also reasonable.
From the product level, tank 500 as the great wall in the sale of the most high-end fuel vehicles, naturally also the use of the great wall in the manufacturing technology, supply chain and other aspects of all the superior goods, tank 500 "sports version" and "business version" two sets of appearance, interior materials or configuration are called top-notch, such as front and rear seats are equipped with heating + ventilation + massage, behind is to seek the needs of different audience groups of high-end hardcore off-road vehicles, after all, look at the appearance and configuration of the people who are not in the minority.
Of course, this does not mean that the tank 500 is just a golden foil, the tank 500 also has high-end strength in off-road capabilities, according to official data, its length / width / height are 4878 (plug-in version 5070) / 1934 / 1905mm, wheelbase is 2850mm, equipped with front double wishbone after the overall bridge suspension, non-carrier body design, approach angle 29.6 °, departure angle 24 °, longitudinal pass angle 22 °, minimum ground height 224mm, wading depth of 800mm In the form of four-wheel drive, the tank 500 adopts the third generation of intelligent four-wheel drive system from BorgWarner, providing low-speed four-wheel drive, tank U-turn, front and rear axle differential locks, and has 11 terrain off-road mode options, which can definitely be called the strongest in China.
The most critical, is the tank 500 first equipped with the 3.0T + 9AT + 48V power assembly, has been, the reason why the independent brand can not successfully impact the high-end, behind or the embodiment of insufficient technical strength, on the one hand, is a serious lack of experience on the high-end longitudinal platform, on the other hand, large displacement engines have high research and development costs, long research and development cycle, high technical barriers to the difficulty, independent brands have long lacked competitive powertrains, and even with large displacement fuel engines, In the face of increasingly stringent fuel consumption limits, there is still a lack of strength.
The 3.0T+9AT set carried by the tank 500 is built by Honeycomb Easy Creation, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Great Wall Motors for power system solutions, which means that this powertrain is a high-end powertrain that truly has independent property rights.
From the data point of view, the 3.0T engine adopts the V-type 6-cylinder form, the application of double injection, Miller cycle, double VGT supercharger, intake manifold integrated water cooling intercooler, full map oil pump and many other technologies, the maximum output power of 260kW, peak torque 500Nm, to meet the national 6b + RDE, Europe six d, North American SULEV30 and other emission standards, and 9AT is the first domestic 9-speed hydraulic automatic transmission, to achieve a 600Nm transmission bearing capacity, from a technical point of view, It has achieved the strength of the foreign first-line echelon.
It is worth mentioning that the Great Wall is also developing a plug-in hybrid version for the powertrain, and the future export model is the tank 500 plug-in hybrid version. Compared with the current model using 48V (1.75kWh), the tank 500 plug-in hybrid battery capacity is larger, can reach 19.94kWh, the gearbox is changed to a hybrid 9HAT transmission of P2 structure, which can realize the pure electric or hybrid drive mode of the whole vehicle, the total power of the system is 410kW, the peak torque is 750Nm, the performance is stronger and can also achieve a longer pure electric mileage, and the future price will also be more than 400,000 yuan.
Since the tank 300 became popular, now more high-end, more luxurious, but also the independent large-displacement internal combustion engine to carry the crown of the tank 500 listed, for today's domestic high-end hardcore off-road vehicles are difficult to find the market status quo, is undoubtedly a bombshell, in addition, the tank 500 is also well versed in the needs of the Chinese, two sets of exterior design, to the top of the comfort and technology configuration, as well as the full range of 3.0T + 9AT high-end powertrain, let us see the explosive potential of this car. In the future, if the marketing is in place and the reliability is not a problem, the tank 500 is likely to be the first to become the independent brand fuel vehicle that has successfully gained a foothold in the market of more than 350,000 yuan.