Great Wall Deer

Among the 31 Great Wall Motor entries in the MotorJury library, the Great Wall Deer holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 1996. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Great Wall Deer properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1990s were the decade of refinement — airbags and ABS became universal, Japanese build quality set the world standard, and the modern SUV segment was effectively invented. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Porsche Porsche Boxster, the Lotus Cars Lotus Elise, the Škoda Auto Škoda Octavia — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Great Wall Deer reads like this: the record lists its engine as 2.2 L GW491QE Inline-four engine / I4 (Petrol engine / petrol) / 2.8 L GW2.8TC Inline-four engine / I4 (Diesel engine / diesel) / 2.8 L GW2.8TDI-2 Inline-four engine / I4 (Diesel e; kerb weight is recorded at Single cab: / 1325 kg / One and a half cab: / 1350 kg / Standard-wheelbase double cab: / 1395-1495 kg / Long wheelbase double cab: / 1425-1525 kg; drive goes through 5 speed manual; the layout is related = Great Wall Safe. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Great Wall Motor story

Within Great Wall Motor's own catalogue the Great Wall Deer sits alongside the Great Wall Coolbear, the Great Wall Cowry, the Great Wall Florid, the Great Wall Haval H3. The record names the Hongqi CA1021U3 as its predecessor and the Great Wall Wingle as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Assembly is recorded at Baoding, Hebei, China / Golpayegan, Iran (Diar).

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Great Wall Deer was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.