Proper on cue, Nice Wall Motor (GWM) Malaysia has launched the GWM Tank 300 within the nation, with the announcement of its worth marking the car’s official entry into the native market. The off-road SUV goes on sale right here as a fully-imported CBU mannequin, priced at RM250,000, on-the-road with out insurance coverage, with an ordinary six-year limitless mileage car guarantee included.
As indicated when it was previewed in March, just one variant of the Tank 300 is out there for our market, and that is powered by a 2.0 litre turbocharged inline-four petrol engine providing 220 PS (217 hp or 162 kW) at 5,500 rpm and 380 Nm of torque from 1,800 to three,600 rpm.
Drive is delivered through an eight-speed automated transmission and a part-time four-wheel drive system, the latter coming with 2H, 4H, 4L modes in addition to electronically-controlled entrance and rear differential locks.
Apart from an assortment of settings obtainable for numerous terrain/surfaces, the Tank 300 additionally comes geared up with a Crawl Management perform (which offers automated management of energy and brakes to maintain the car shifting at a gradual pace when off-road) and a tank flip perform, which, when activated, locks the rear inside wheel to permit the car to pivot in tight spots.
Efficiency figures for the two,155 kg providing embrace a 175 km/h high pace, whereas related off-road numbers embrace a 33° strategy and 34° departure angle, a 23.1° ramp angle, a floor clearance of 224 mm and a water wading depth of as much as 700 mm.
Design-wise, the SUV, which measures in at 4,760 mm lengthy, 1,930 mm vast and 1,903 mm tall, with a 2,750 mm-long wheelbase, has the visible signature of traditional 4×4 autos with its boxy design and chunky cladding.
Highlights embrace round LED headlamps that every have a daytime working gentle strip working throughout them in addition to a swing-out tailgate. It rides on 18-inch two-tone alloys, wrapped with 265/60 profile Michelin Primacy HT tyres.
Inside, you’ll discover a dashboard that seems to be impressed by the Mercedes-Benz G-Class with an upright profile, turbine-look air vents, a pair of screens (12.3-inch digital instrument cluster and 12.3-inch touchscreen) and built-in seize handles. Additional down, the centre console homes a robust-looking gear selector together with controls for the four-wheel drive system, digital parking brake and driver help methods.
Different options embrace automated air-conditioning (with rear vents), powered entrance seats, fake Nappa leather-based upholstery, a nine-speaker Infinity sound system, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto connectivity, a powered sunroof, 64-colour ambient lighting, double-layer acoustic glass for the windscreen/entrance home windows, a wi-fi charging pad and paddle shifters.
As for security and driving help tools, the Tank 300 contains a raft of equipment. Moreover entrance, aspect curtain and curtain airbags, the SUV is supplied with a full ADAS deck, with the checklist of accessible gadgets on it together with adaptive cruise management, autonomous emergency braking, lane preserve help, lane departure warning, blind spot detection, lane change help and rear cross-traffic help with brake intervention.
Additionally to be discovered are entrance/rear parking sensors, a tyre strain monitoring system and a 360° encompass view digicam, with one other novelty coming within the type of a clear chassis view displayed on the central display screen, useful for sighting terrain hidden from view when navigating beneath off-road situations.
4 exterior colors can be found for the Tank 300 offered right here, and these are the hero Nightfall Orange shade on the instance seen in these pictures, Fossil Gray, Crystal Black and Pearl White.
As a gesture of appreciation, GWM is providing the primary 300 clients who register a Tank 300 a five-year or 100,000 km free upkeep package deal (together with labour and elements, relevant each 10,000 km or each six months, whichever comes first) in addition to an limitless mileage lifetime engine and transmission guarantee, though the latter is just relevant to the unique purchaser of the car.
The primary 300 registered clients may also obtain a GWM x Thule Journey Package, which incorporates an RM8,000 Thule voucher and a Thule Paramount backpack value RM999.
Together with the launch of the SUV, clients who’ve accomplished their car registration by August 12 may also be within the working to win an journey journey to ChongQing and ChengDu, China, with 10 clients chosen for this through a fortunate draw contest.
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