Great Wall Steed 5 2012

China gets closer, ever closer to Western tastes and needs of Europe. Style, Great Wall Motor has never been entrenched behind a great wall but it has always produced cars with a modern and very Western. What is missing in Chinese production is always the allure of good solid construction and technological perfection and glory of Germany, although we must not forget that many technological gems like the iPod are on specific products in China and western China are produced in vast bicycles that rust with the breath of a child and at the same time well-made carbon frames. China is not only one of the dolls sold in front of the flashing bar and the progress that the Chinese manufacturers do every day are often amazing. Even in cars, starting from the style.

The Great Wall Steed, pickup Spartan designed for work and hobbies bulky, is no less hard-nosed and comes with a frontal cut in the sport, with large black grille cut from the center plate, fog lights on the sides mustache at the bottom of the bumper and headlights sharp, almond-shaped stylized. Pushing the upper lip upward and making all the big black mouth, and has already thought Orciari dedicated kit, the Steed family member seems to be the Shanghai of the Cayenne. From the front line continues the classic, with its double cabin a little ‘square and the crate that ends in three-dimensional cut by modern lights. Traditional measures for a double cab, 5 meters by 1.80, and seven of which three basic colors (red, white and green) are also available with gray bumpers and strips on the wings.

The special effects end up with the front and inside the Great Wall Steed follows the cliché of most Japanese off-road a couple of generations ago, with teams such as the dashboard dashboard design tools from elementary and center console with no effort of imagination. The five seats are comfortable, there’s room without any problems for the legs of those who get behind, that does not meet either too difficult to catch on the small rear doors. Some punched the dashboard is well absorbed from plastics that do not have weaknesses. Weak but the plastic that forms the background to the commands of the center console and a little ‘dancer is the central tunnel.

The outline of the Great Wall Steed is the most classic, chassis, rigid rear axle with leaf springs front and rear wheel drive with switchable four-wheel drive version. The mechanical organs comes from the bank Mitsubishi, engine, gearbox and transmission. The engine is a 2.4 petrol four-cylinder 126 horsepower and 220 nM at 2500 rpm coupled to a five-speed manual transmission. In first gear, then with full rights and local government contributions, if available, is fitted with an LPG tank of 90 liters in addition to 70 of the petrol tank. The reported average consumption of gasoline mileage allow the order of 8.4 km / liter.

The Steed is available in two versions, two-or four-wheel drive. The choice of the type of traction takes a few seconds, can also be done at speed (moderate) by pressing a button on the dash that put the gear unit for changing, starting to get even on slopes of 30%. A pure off-road equipment with sizes from climber: ground clearance of 194mm, approach angle of 30 degrees, 24 degrees out and the only limit of 3.05 in the passage that, like the belly of a dachshund, limits the ‘angle to 17.5 degrees off.

Two-and four-wheel drive with the same setup, except for leather seats and includes exclusive 4×4 Steed, as a minimum complete, the air conditioning and fog lights, front airbags ABS with EBD (missing side and curtain), the closure with remote control to power windows, alloy wheels from 16 inches to the radio with cd. the price is interesting, granted the government’s 1500 euro of the cost Steed 16,500 and 19,000 euros, assisted by two year warranty and typed it in eighty dealerships in the country.

After the LPG and petrol versions, here is the Great Wall Steed 5 with turbo diesel engine. Will not arrive in dealerships until mid-July, but already now you can order. Fresh, moreover, of a cosmetic touch-up of the muzzle which raises the odds of this pick-up China, acceptable compromise quality / price for those looking for a versatile work.

FACELIFT The restyling has the merit of giving the car a cleaner look Steed 5: less masculine than before, but closer to that of the modern SUV. To achieve the GW designers have worked on the headlights and grille, which now sports a crescent shape and horizontal bars. The rest is done by a redesigned bumper with air intakes that incorporate fog lamps.

PRICES The most interesting, however, lies under the skin, where Steed has a 2.0 TDI with 150 hp and 320 Nm of torque at 1,800 rpm Euro 4 compliant, but which are not declared consumption. Combined with the new engine we are a six-speed manual transmission and – optional – the four-wheel drive. The difference between the two versions is of 2,250 euros: the Steed 5 4×4 Super Luxury costs 19,950 euros, while the 4×2 version opens the price of diesel at an altitude of 17,700 euros.

NOTHING include ESP as standard 16 “wheels, central locking, electrically adjustable mirrors, manual climate, radio and steering wheel controls. On the security front but there’s ABS, ESP. The layout of the 4×4 Super Luxury adds leather upholstery, while the navigator (950 euros), metallic paint (480 euros) and the plastic body are part of the list of options.

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