GWM is about to deliver an up to date model of its best-selling automobile to Australia, however there are query marks over what its mini SUV lineup will appear to be transferring ahead.
A refreshed GWM Haval Jolion has seemed in executive benevolence paperwork, dressed in revised styling entrance and rear.
It options an up to date model of the combustion-powered Jolion’s entrance fascia, aligning it visually with the Thai-market Jolion Hybrid.
There’s a brandnew vertical bar grille changing the chrome mesh of the flow automobile and a revised entrance bumper branch, in addition to a tweaked rear bumper.
There’s additionally a GWM wordmark around the tailgate, as the corporate de-emphasises the Haval nameplate it had up to now established right here as a full-fledged emblem of its personal.
The unique kinked LED daylight hours working lighting stay of petrol-powered Jolions stay, and there don’t seem to be any adjustments to alternative lighting fixtures parts, both.
If the Thai-market type is the rest to progress by way of, we shouldn’t be expecting to look any adjustments throughout the automobile.
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Thai-market Jolion -
Given the revised Jolion has been authorized on the market in Australia, apparently most probably it will foundation right here someday in 2024.
The benevolence paperwork checklist two other variants, marked with ‘FL’ for facelift, each powered by way of a 105kW turbocharged 1.5-litre four-cylinder engine.
Negative facelifted S or hybrid fashions seem within the paperwork.
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Haval Chitu/Pink Rabbit
GWM hasn’t showed what its plans are for the Jolion transferring ahead, then again a nearly identically sized crossover – the Haval Chitu, or Red Rabbit – has been spied checking out in Australia.
“It’s quite common for the local team here to import models available in overseas markets for evaluation purposes and to consider whether they might be a good fit for the Australian and New Zealand markets,” stated a GWM Australia spokesperson in February.
“The Red Rabbit that has been seen recently in Melbourne is also here for evaluation purposes, however, there’s no confirmation at this stage on whether it will join the local GWM lineup.”
It remainder to be distinguishable whether or not the Chitu might be introduced right here, probably as a substitute for the Jolion S, Lux Hybrid and Extremely Hybrid.
The sportier-looking Chitu crossover first entered manufacturing in 2021, the similar moment because the Jolion. It’s nearly identically sized, using the similar 2700mm wheelbase and measuring simply 2mm shorter total at 4470mm, regardless that it’s 57mm wider.
The Jolion itself is now not offered in China, regardless that it remains to be manufactured there for markets equivalent to ours; it’s additionally manufactured in Thailand.
GWM lately showed it could foundation the Chitu in South Africa, any other right-hand force marketplace, because the Jolion Professional.
There, it’s going to fit in above the Jolion, with that type shedding its most costly fashions together with its hybrid variants.
The Citizen experiences the Jolion Professional might be presented in South Africa with a turbocharged 1.5-litre four-cylinder engine generating 130kW of energy and 270Nm of torque and mated to a seven-speed dual-clutch automated, the similar powertrain worn within the Australian-market Jolion S.
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Flow Jolion S inner
There’s additionally a 139kW/375Nm four-cylinder hybrid powertrain, as distinguishable within the Jolion Hybrid.
Within the transition to right-hand force, the Chitu/Jolion Professional has additionally followed the Jolion’s dashboard, rather of a model of the left-hand force type’s sportier-looking cockpit.
If the Haval Chitu is offered in Australia, it’s going to bolster the emblem’s presence within the mini SUV area. That is recently ruled by way of the MG ZS nation, of which 29,258 had been offered in the neighborhood in 2023; GWM, against this, offered 11,252 Haval Jolions.
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