On March 18, the Tank 500 was officially launched, with a price range of 335,000 to 395,000 yuan. This car is the first product of the tank brand business luxury series, the tank 500 is positioned as a medium and large business luxury SUV, to meet the user's business, home, travel, off-road and other full-scene high-quality travel needs.
Equipped with a self-developed 3.0T V6 engine and a 9AT transmission, the Tank 500 is one of the few large-displacement SUVs of Chinese brands today. This engine is equipped with mainstream engine technologies such as supercharging, double injection, and Miller cycle, and finally achieves a maximum power of 260 kW and a maximum torque of 500 N·m. With the help of this engine, it can achieve 0-100km/h acceleration of 7.3s, which is definitely an excellent result for a non-bearer body SUV of this size.
Compared with the time-sharing four-wheel drive system of the tank 300, the four-wheel drive system has been upgraded to an intelligent four-wheel drive system, which integrates the advantages of time-sharing four-wheel drive and intelligent four-wheel drive. Torque correction can be achieved 20 times per second depending on the road conditions. At a speed of 80km per hour, intelligent four-wheel drive, high-speed four-wheel drive, high-speed two-wheel drive automatic switching can be realized; high-speed four-wheel drive and low-speed four-wheel drive adopt mechanical locking mechanism, and low-speed torque can be amplified by 2.64 times. As a product positioning to meet the needs of business luxury and SUVs, such a four-wheel drive system can allow this car to meet more all-weather scenarios.
The intelligent all-terrain system can realize the automatic switching of snow, mud, sand, standard, sport, and economic modes in AUTO mode, while the tank 500 is also equipped with creep mode, wading mode, expert mode and other technologies, for improving the passability, the four-wheel drive system and the electronic system work together, in these aspects we can see the efforts of Great Wall Motors.
Inside, the Tank 500 offers a modern interior design with a massive LCD screen, LCD instruments and a variety of textured materials. To be fair, I think the interior design of this car is more modern and luxurious than That of Tourle, Land Cruiser, etc.
For the tank 500, because its size is very similar to the Toyota Land Cruiser, it has been named "Baoding Land Tour", but I think in fact, the meaning of this car is not to compete with the Land Patrol, or this is an unfair contrast to him, the emergence of the Tank 500 is more to provide a new experience and choice for domestic consumers.
After people satisfy the problem of food and clothing, they will begin to pursue more things. For the car is also the case, Chinese brands have passed the stage of only creating functional basic cars, in the development process of overseas car brands, we can also see such a development path, for Great Wall Motors, Tank 500 is a brand new product, but also an opportunity to promote the brand upwards, Tank 500 whether it is a hit again, I think time will give everyone a satisfactory answer.