The Great Wall Pao is the Great Wall Motor that answered a simple question — how much car can this badge carry? — with 147 kW from Petrol engine. It was built from 2019, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market.
How it came about
The Great Wall Pao (Chinese: 長城炮; pinyin: Cháng chéng pào) (also known as the Poer P11/P12, Cannon, P-Series, Ruman, or Sucan) is a range of mid-size pickup trucks manufactured by the Chinese automaker Great Wall Motors since 2019.
The hardware
Under the skin sits Petrol engine; it is rated at 147 kW; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. The gearbox is a 6-speed manual / 8-speed ZF 8HP automatic / 1-speed direct-drive (EV) / 9-speed 9HAT automatic (HEV). The wheelbase is Regular version: 3230 mm / Commercial version: 3230 mm / Commercial LWB version: 3410 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Where it sits in Great Wall Motor's history is not in doubt: it was built at Baoding. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Kia EV6, the Geely Xingyue, the JAC Group Sehol E20X. Its Great Wall Motor stablemates include the Great Wall Coolbear and the Great Wall Cowry.