The Great Wall Cowry is a 5-door Minivan from Great Wall Motor, built from 2007 to 2015, in the decade of stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids. Under the bonnet: 1.5 L GW4G15T I4 turbo.
Where it came from
The Great Wall Cowry (Chinese: 长城嘉誉; pinyin: Chángchéng Jiāyù), also known as the Great Wall Voleex V80, is a minivan made by the Chinese automaker Great Wall Motors. The styling of the Great Wall Cowry heavily resembles the Toyota Noah AZR60 (2001-2007).
Under the skin
Power comes from 1.5 L GW4G15T I4 turbo; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It shifts through a 5 speed manual / 4 speed automatic. The wheelbase is 2825 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
In context
Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Volkswagen Tiguan, the Nissan GT-R, the Hyundai i30 — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Great Wall Motor catalogue sit the Great Wall Coolbear and the Great Wall Deer.