Strip the Tank 400 back to its specification sheet and the character is already there: 2.0 L GW4N20 PHEV turbo I4, 408 hp. Great Wall Motor built from 2023, in the decade the industry is turning electric.
The background
The GWM Tank 400 or Tank 400 (Chinese: 坦克400; pinyin: Tǎnkè 400) is a mid-size SUV produced by Great Wall Motor. It is the third model to be introduced under the Tank marque.
The engineering
Power comes from 2.0 L GW4N20 PHEV turbo I4; 408 hp is the published figure. It weighs 2455-2770 kg. Work it out per tonne and you get about 166 horsepower — quick by any era's standard, the kind of figure a hot hatch or a sports saloon posts. It shifts through a 9-speed 9AT/9HAT automatic. The layout matters: drive goes to all four wheels, which is what lets the power be used on a wet road. The wheelbase is 2850 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Its family tree is legible: assembly was at Tianjin, China. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Nissan Z, the Changan Automobile Avatr 12, the Rolls-Royce Spectre — show what else the money bought that year. Its Great Wall Motor stablemates include the Great Wall Coolbear and the Great Wall Cowry.