The just-launched GWM Tank 300 hybrid 4×4 has acquired the utmost five-star security ranking from crash tester ANCAP – based mostly on Australian testing.
The GWM Tank – Tank being one other Nice Wall Motor sub-brand – turns into the most recent GWM to attain 5 stars, becoming a member of the GWM Ute, GWM Haval H6, and GWM Haval Jolion.
The Chinese language SUV scored 88 per cent for grownup occupant safety, 89 per cent for little one occupant safety, 81 per cent for susceptible street person safety, and 85 per cent for security help options.
Full factors have been awarded for all 4 crucial physique areas of each the motive force and entrance seat passenger within the frontal offset take a look at.
Nonetheless this was offset by the utmost 4.00 level penalty for vehicle-to-vehicle compatibility: The bluff entrance construction was proven to pose a excessive danger to the occupants of an oncoming automobile if struck.
Related excessive scores got for the Tank 300’s capability to guard the motive force and entrance seat occupants within the vary of aspect affect crash take a look at situations.
Whiplash safety for entrance and rear seat passengers was rated pretty much as good, as was safety supplied to each the ten yr and 6 yr little one dummies when seated in applicable little one restraints within the second row.
Within the full width frontal take a look at, designed to evaluate the effectiveness of frontal airbags and seatbelt restraints, the extent of safety supplied to all crucial physique areas of the motive force was once more rated pretty much as good.
In distinction, weak efficiency was recorded for the top and chest of the rear seat passenger – an space the place enhancements to the restraint system might ship improved efficiency for rear seat occupants.
The Tank 300 demonstrated largely good ranges of security efficiency throughout the Security Help evaluation space together with its autonomous emergency braking and lane-keeping aids, with ANCAP additionally noting a sophisticated direct driver monitoring system is fitted as customary.
Direct driver monitoring turns into a requirement for five-stars beneath the forthcoming, ratcheted-up 2023-2025 ANCAP ranking standards.
“This security ranking for the Tank 300 rounds out our testing for the yr, and provides one other five-star performer into the GWM steady and importantly, the Australia new automobile fleet,” stated ANCAP chief government Carla Hoorweg.
“2023 will see various new and up to date features launched into our take a look at and ranking regime – additional enhancing the protection of latest vehicles supplied to Australian and New Zealand shoppers,” stated Ms Hoorweg.
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The GWM Tank 300 is a boxy ladder-frame 4×4 sharing a few of its underpinnings with the GWM Ute, however utilizing petrol-electric energy.
Costs kick off at $55,990 drive-away and high out at $60,990 drive-away, making it GWM’s costliest automobile in Australia so far.
Security options:
- Seven airbags (entrance, aspect, curtain and centre)
- Adaptive cruise management
- Autonomous emergency braking
- Entrance collision warning
- Lane-departure warning
- Lane-keep help
- Visitors signal recognition
- Rear cross-traffic alert with brake
Energy comes from a 2.0-litre hybrid pairing a 180kW and 380Nm four-cylinder petrol engine with a 78kW and 268Nm electrical motor. GWM Australia says the towing capability might be 2500kg.
GWM’s Australian division hasn’t supplied all of the specs, however the firm’s world website claims the Tank 300’s system HEV outputs are 224kW and 640Nm, and says gas financial system might be between 9-10 litres per 100km. We await Australian information nonetheless.
The hybrid’s energy output is up 57kW on the non-hybrid turbo four-cylinder supplied in China, and GWM says this slashes the claimed 0-100km/h time from 9.5 seconds to 7.9 seconds.
Constructed on GWM’s world off-road platform, the GWM Tank 300 affords good floor clearance of 224mm, a 33-degree strategy angle and 34-degree departure angle, and ‘torque-on-demand’ full-time 4WD.
At 4760mm lengthy, the GWM Tank 300 is an attention-grabbing measurement, being a bit smaller than an Isuzu MU-X and Ford Everest, however bigger than a typical mid-size SUV. One other potential rival is the rather more costly Jeep Wrangler Limitless.
Tank 300 fashions have already been spied in right-hand drive guise in Melbourne at GWM HQ.
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Spied at GWM Australia HQ
Tank 300 fashions in China provide low-range gearing and entrance and rear electromechanical locking differentials, plus a tank flip operate and a creep mode. Along with a normal surround-view digital camera, there’s additionally a see-through beneath automobile view.
Suspension is known to be double-wishbone up entrance with a multi-link rear axle, and a full-sized spare is mounted on the tailgate.
GWM really imported at the very least one non-hybrid Tank 300 petrol to Australia in 2021, and held a media drive at a 4×4 park to indicate its skills. It’s the black automobile pictured.
There’s additionally a burgeoning 4×4 group in China who’re loving the Tank 300.
GWM Tank itself sells a 300 Border version in China, whereas our pals at China’s greatest off-road accent importer, Yunliang 4×4, produce their very own hardcore modified model – which offered 1000 models in three minutes earlier this yr.
It’s not the one electrified mannequin GWM is anticipated to introduce subsequent yr, as CarExpert understands the model might have six or seven electrified fashions by the tip of 2023.
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Yunliang Tank 300
That features a plug-in hybrid model of the Tank 500, one other body-on-frame SUV however one which sits roughly between the Toyota LandCruiser Prado and 300 Sequence.
The Tank 300, like all GWM automobiles, comes with a seven-year and limitless kilometre guarantee, 5 years of roadside help, and 5 years of capped-price servicing.
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