Haval H9 under consideration to sit below Tank 500

GWM’s Haval marque whitethorn soon person a caller flagship seven-seater SUV if the Australian limb decides to bring successful the H9, which is presently nether superior information for our market.

With institution executives having spent this week successful China for the Beijing centrifugal show, CarExpert understands the lawsuit for the H9 has improved importantly with GWM looking to acceptable the merchandise beneath the precocious launched Tank 500.

GWM Australia’s caput of selling and communications, Steve Maciver, told CarExpert the concern lawsuit for the H9 is nether study.

“We’ve had an accidental to look astatine H9 much intimately and to thrust the car. Suffice to say, the feedback is very, precise affirmative and we’re present looking astatine options to spot whether H9 could beryllium different seven-seat summation to the [GWM] range,” helium said.

If the Haval H9 does marque it to our market, it would request to beryllium beneath the precocious launched Tank 500 (from $66,490 to $73,990 drive-away) successful presumption of pricing and capability.

This little terms constituent could beryllium achieved as, dissimilar the Tank 500, the H9 lacks immoderate of the much off-road-focused capabilities immoderate GWM Haval buyers whitethorn not needfully need.

“We’ve got to deliberation cautiously astir positioning and pricing, but if we’re capable to get those things right, H9 is simply a possibility,” Mr Maciver said.

“As specified determination whitethorn beryllium a anticipation we could bring it astatine a little price, which sits good with our Haval SUV strategy, whereby it is susceptible of off-road – but it’s surely not arsenic susceptible of off-road arsenic the nonrecreational Tank series, which is our premium off-road series.”

The Haval H9 is presently offered successful China with turbocharged 2.0-litre petrol and a 2.4-litre diesel engines. It would beryllium highly improbable fixed the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES) coming to Australia that the diesel would beryllium nether superior information – determination is presently nary hybrid variant of the H9.

Based connected erstwhile cases, erstwhile GWM Australia decides to bring the H9 it tin beryllium acceptable successful right-hand thrust and get locally wrong the adjacent 12 months.

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