GWM has just introduced a turbo diesel engine in his Tank 300 Body-on-Frame SUV and the company claims that it is already overcoming the existing variants.
Creeks with CarexperGWM Australia and New Zealand (GWM ANZ) Head of Marketing and Communication Steve Maciver said that the sales volume of the Turbo-Petrol Tank 300 is demolished as the sale of Turbo diesel rises.
“We only had real offer [of the Tank 300 Diesel] In recent weeks on the ground, “said Mr. Maciver.
“With the order, [the diesel] Is quite considerably exceeded what we do in gasoline and what we do in Hybrid.
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“It is almost double the volume of each of those two powertrain combinations.
“We see the gasoline volume coming out a bit, since then [the diesel] went inside. So what we had in gasoline has come, but [the diesel] has also added more incremental volume. “
Maciver claims that the tank is expected to make 300 diesel 60 percent of the total turnover for the model, whereby the other 40 percent is evenly distributed between the turbo-petrol and hybrid variants.
Last year, GWM sold a total of 3968 examples of the tank 300. 26.1 percent of the turnover was of the hybrid variants, while the remaining 73.9 percent of the gasoline variants were.
According to GWM ANZ product specialist Tim Leong, the tank 300 diesel is priced, so that it can be the “new main seller of the entire tank 300 series”.
There are two different tanks 300 variants, the Lux and Ultra, which are priced at $ 47,990 Drive-Away and $ 51.990 Drive-Away respectively. These prices place it between the corresponding turbo-petrol and hybrid variants.
The 2.4-liter four-cylinder turbo diesel engine that is now available in the tank 300 is not new for GWM. It is already offered in the Cannon Alpha, as well as the updated Cannon Dual-Cab Utes.
Although the turbo diesel engine is the most important difference for the rest of the existing tank 300 series, GWM claims to have applied more than 20 component adjustments and upgrades.
As a result, the tank 300 diesel can drag 500 kg more than the gasoline and hybrid vehicles. With a 3000 kg-baked towing capacity, however, it is still short of the Mitsubishi Pajero Sport and Toyota Fortuner’s 3100kg figures, as well as the classes of leading 3500 kg offered by the Toyota Prado and Ford Everest.
The higher towing capacity of the tank 300 diesel pushes it into the “heavy off-road passenger vehicles” category in the context of the incoming new vehicle efficiency emission regulation of the Australian government, giving it a higher CO2 emission goal than its gasoline and hybrid brothers and sisters.
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