Great Wall Motor
Among the 31 Great Wall Motor entries in the MotorJury library, the Tank 500 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 2021. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Tank 500 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2020s were the current era, in which battery-electric platforms, software-defined cars and China's rise as the world's largest producer are rewriting a century of industry order. 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 Kia Kia EV6, the Nissan Nissan Z, the Tesla Tesla Model Y — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Tank 500 reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 3.0 L GW6Z30 twin turbo V6 engine / V6 / Petrol engine / Petrol Hybrid electric vehicle / hybrid: / 2.0 L GW4N20 HEV turbocharger / turbo straight-four en; quoted output is 345 hp (HEV) / 349 hp (V6) / 402 hp (PHEV Hi4-T) / 865 hp (PHEV Hi4-Z); kerb weight is recorded at 2455 -; drive goes through 9-speed 9AT/9HAT automatic transmission / automatic / 3-speed DHT (PHEV Hi4-Z); the layout is Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout / Longitudinal front-engine, rear-wheel drive / Front-engine, four-wheel drive layout / Longitudinal front-engine, four-wheel drive. Worked together, those figures give roughly 141 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. 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.
Within Great Wall Motor's own catalogue the Tank 500 sits alongside the Great Wall Coolbear, the Great Wall Cowry, the Great Wall Deer, the Great Wall Florid. Design is credited to class = Full-size SUV. Assembly is recorded at China: Tianjin / Thailand: Rayong (GWM Thailand) / Pakistan: Lahore (GWM Pakistan) / Uzbekistan: Jizzakh (ADM).
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