2022 GWM Cannon/Poer Ute on/off-road (inc. 0-100) review

CarExpert

We reviewed the GWM Ute. alittle while back, but it now has a 5 star safety rating (for vehicles purchased after August 2021, and. canbe retrofitted to other vehicles) and we wanted to have another crack in the top specification model. Paul Maric gets behind the wheel of the 2022 GWM Cannon X Ute to see if it's any good.  Hardness tester results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/121Auf6HGvaBqRToYcuAz94alin7Sw55SpOPECBDlnKE  More GWM content: https://www.carexpert.com.au/gwm More GWM Cannon content: https://www.carexpert.com.au/gwm/cannon  Skip Ahead: Intro: 00:00 Exterior 01:07 Interior 04:41 Infotainment 06:07 Safety Tech 08:14 Practicality 09:01 On Road 11:57 0-100 km/h 15:41 Off Road 17:12 Verdict 21:01  We review every new car on the market, bust car myths, cover the latest car tech and answer your burning questions.  Whether you need new car advice, purchase validation or simply love learning more about new cars and technology, we are your car experts.  Subscribe to Car Expert: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7DvMhvy3H7ntEgn9n3xQcQ?sub_confirmation=1  You'll find us dropping new video content three times a week. If you'd like to ask a question about one of our videos, simply leave us a comment. If you'd like to give us any feedback on our content, feel free to email us, or alternatively, hit us up on social media.  Finally, we want this channel to grow with your support and feedback. If there's anything you don't like or would like to see us change, we'd love to hear from you!  Follow us on social media to see what we're up to and to ask any questions!  CarExpert: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CarExpertAus Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/CarExpertAus Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carexpert.com.au  Paul Maric: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PaulMaric Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/PaulMaric Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/PaulMaric  #gwm #cannon #review

Transcript

00:00 G'day, I'm Paul.

00:00 So there's been a huge surge of Chinese utes

00:03 coming to Australia and they're getting better and better.

00:05 A little while ago,

00:06 we reviewed the Great Wall Motors Canon ute.

00:09 We did the L version, which is kind of the mid-spec.

00:11 A lot of you were asking about the top spec, the X,

00:14 and that is it right there.

00:15 Today, we're gonna do a review of this thing.

00:18 Now, I wanna give you just a little bit of background here.

00:20 In this price bracket,

00:21 you're getting a lot of these high-end Chinese utes,

00:24 but you're also getting the very much lower end

00:27 of the premium brands,

00:28 like your Ranger, Hilux, and that kind of thing.

00:29 So there is a lot of demand for these,

00:31 especially for those people

00:32 that aren't interested in brand names.

00:34 So the Canon X is priced at a little over $40,000,

00:38 but if that's too expensive,

00:39 the whole range starts off at just over $30,000.

00:42 This competes with things like the Mitsubishi Triton,

00:44 the LDV-T60, and the SsangYong Musso, amongst others.

00:49 Today, we're gonna do a detailed review of this thing.

00:51 If you do wanna skip ahead to other parts of the review,

00:53 you can use the time codes up on the screen there,

00:55 or if you're on YouTube,

00:56 you've got chapters below down there.

00:58 And if you haven't done so already,

00:59 subscribe to our channel and press the bell icon.

01:01 That way you'll find out every single time

01:03 we drive one of these Chinese utes.

01:05 In terms of your color palette,

01:08 you've got five external colors to pick from,

01:11 all but white.

01:12 They're gonna set you back about 600 bucks.

01:14 Now, you do notice these on the road

01:16 because the grille, it is enormous, and it's all chrome,

01:21 so they stand out a lot.

01:22 And I am fairly certain that is the world's biggest car logo

01:26 on the front of a car.

01:27 So, these do really stand out.

01:29 And I think they look good.

01:30 Like, if you have a think about where Chinese utes

01:33 have come from, the previous version of this,

01:35 called the Steed, it just looked shocking.

01:38 It was really, really bad, and it was a bad car as well,

01:41 so it kinda suited the design.

01:42 But this actually looks really good,

01:43 and I think they've gone to a lot of effort to modernize it

01:46 and just give it that stylish appearance out on the road.

01:48 So, you've got your big grille there,

01:49 you've got holes there for your cooling,

01:51 and as you come down here,

01:52 it goes to a sort of a darker gray setup

01:55 with the number plate holder.

01:57 Headlights, you get full LED headlights

01:59 with an LED daytime running light

02:01 and a progressive LED indicator as well.

02:03 So again, this makes it stand out in traffic,

02:05 and it kinda gives it a bit of a meaty appearance.

02:07 Fog light down the bottom there.

02:09 Whip around to the side, we've got 18-inch alloy wheels

02:12 down here on highway terrain tyres.

02:13 Now, I've gotta apologize for how dirty this is.

02:15 We've been filming a whole bunch of utes here

02:17 over the past few days, and it has been raining,

02:20 and as a result of that, it is dirty.

02:21 But beneath that, you have a machined finish

02:24 and then a black coating on the inside there.

02:27 Now, wheel arch protectors, it's common in SUVs,

02:30 but here in utes, they kind of just go

02:32 with body-coloured protection for the wheel arches.

02:35 The interesting thing about this

02:36 and some of the other cheaper utes in the segment

02:38 is that they're moving to four-wheel disc brakes.

02:40 It is unheard of in Hilux rangerland,

02:43 unless you go to something like a Raptor,

02:44 to actually get disc brakes on the rear.

02:46 So, it is interesting that the less money you spend,

02:48 the more advanced your braking technology is.

02:51 So, yeah, just an interesting point there.

02:53 Up here, you've got a little bit of a side garnish

02:56 with that Great Wall Motors logo.

02:57 Chrome on the mirror cap with an indicator

02:59 built into there.

03:00 Camera here for the 360 camera.

03:02 You get privacy glass, a set of roof rails,

03:05 get a set of sidesteps on the side here.

03:07 You get yourself a sports bar,

03:09 and then come around to the back,

03:10 you've got LED taillights.

03:12 These, again, look good and stand out at nighttime.

03:14 Just to put the size of this into perspective,

03:16 it's slightly longer than a Ford Ranger.

03:18 It comes in at just over 5.4 metres long.

03:21 So, it's got a pretty big profile out on the road,

03:23 and you will definitely notice that it feels and looks

03:25 bigger than some of the other Utes on the market.

03:28 Now, there's an interesting setup here.

03:29 Let me open this tray for a second.

03:32 Fold that down.

03:33 Look at that.

03:34 It actually has hydraulics on the side there.

03:36 So, opening and closing it is very easy,

03:39 and that's a great feature,

03:40 because it means it's not gonna slam down

03:42 every time you open it.

03:43 In addition to that, you've got a step.

03:45 So, if I pull this out,

03:47 you would have seen something like this on the Ford F-150,

03:51 and I think this is a great innovation,

03:53 especially if you've got stuff you need to get out.

03:55 When you get to, I'm not even that old, but I feel old.

03:59 When you get to my age and you try and get in

04:01 and out of here, my knees buckle doing that.

04:04 So, this is a very useful thing to have.

04:08 Pop that back in there.

04:09 So, in terms of your tray,

04:11 you've got this spray-in bed liner.

04:12 It is just over 1.5 metres long and 1.5 metres wide.

04:16 So, it's a pretty generous setup in the back there.

04:18 You've got hooks down the side here,

04:19 but no 12-volt outlet or other power outlets,

04:22 which is a little bit disappointing.

04:24 It would have been nice if they could fit

04:25 something like that in there.

04:26 I'll close this up for a sec.

04:27 We've got a 3,000-kilo brake to towing capacity,

04:30 and you can also use this to step inside

04:32 and get your things out as well if you need to.

04:34 So, really comprehensive setup there.

04:36 Let me know what you think about the design.

04:37 Do I just think it looks good,

04:39 or do you guys reckon it looks good as well?

04:40 Let me know in the comments.

04:41 Okay, so we are inside the GWM Cannon.

04:44 Let's start off with the key.

04:46 So, you have a remote start function up the top.

04:49 You have a panic button, lock, unlock,

04:52 bit of chrome on the side,

04:53 and then the GWM logo on the back.

04:55 It's proximity sensing key,

04:57 so you can just grab the door handle.

04:59 It'll unlock, and then you've got a push button

05:00 start just there.

05:01 I think this is really nicely presented.

05:03 Outside of this, all the piano black stuff,

05:06 this really just feels nice and premium,

05:09 and you kind of don't expect it

05:10 at that $40,000 price marker.

05:12 You've got soft-touch material along the dash there

05:14 with that faux stitching setup.

05:16 Got this sort of architecture-style stuff there,

05:19 and then soft-touch finishes down the center.

05:21 This is where you're gonna be resting your knees,

05:23 so you need that kind of stuff.

05:24 Along the door there as well,

05:25 you've got that diamond quilted finish,

05:27 and that continues over onto the seats

05:29 where you've got the diamond quilting there as well.

05:31 So, they've drawn a bit of inspiration here

05:33 from luxury brands and sort of integrated it

05:35 into the work unit, so big tick-tick there.

05:37 What about your touch points, though?

05:38 So, that is kind of firm,

05:41 and then on the door, it's soft.

05:43 How soft is it?

05:44 Well, we've got our durometer.

05:44 We've tested the main surfaces in this cabin.

05:46 If you wanna see how this car compares to others

05:48 that we've tested before,

05:50 have a look at the link in the description.

05:51 Build quality, that's okay.

05:54 It's a little bit wonky there, but sort of fairly solid.

05:58 Let me know in the comments, have you bought one of these?

05:59 What's it been like sort of longer term?

06:02 Door test.

06:03 Sounds nice and very solid.

06:06 Let's talk about infotainment.

06:09 So, you've got this nine-inch infotainment screen.

06:13 It's interesting because you have it as a touchscreen,

06:16 but down here as well,

06:17 you've got a knob for volume control, which is good

06:19 because it is sometimes difficult on these screens

06:22 to go up and down with volume without that knob there.

06:25 It's pretty basic, though.

06:26 So, you've got AM and FM radio.

06:28 There's no DAB+ digital radio,

06:30 and this seems to be a theme

06:31 amongst a lot of these Chinese units.

06:32 They just don't have digital radio for some reason,

06:36 which is a bit of a shame,

06:37 but you do get a six-speaker sound system.

06:40 You get voice recognition here in the top-spec model,

06:42 and also smartphone mirroring,

06:44 both Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.

06:46 They are wired, though, so no wireless setup.

06:48 Show you what Apple CarPlay looks like.

06:51 So, full screen.

06:52 Let's see how quick that is.

06:53 It's not too bad.

06:54 It's a tiny bit laggy, but it does the job.

06:57 The good news is that even though

06:58 there isn't satellite navigation built into this,

07:00 once you have your smartphone hooked up,

07:02 you pretty much get the latest maps

07:03 and all that sort of stuff.

07:04 And this is what Android Auto looks like.

07:07 So, again, full screen integration.

07:09 Let's see how quick that is.

07:11 That's actually not too bad.

07:12 It's nice and fast, so good setup there.

07:14 I mentioned also, ahead of the driver,

07:16 you get a screen here in the top-spec model.

07:18 So, it's a digital instrument display.

07:20 You can see that all sort of lights up in the center there.

07:23 There is something frustrating with this, though.

07:25 So, you'll notice there's warnings there.

07:26 While you're driving,

07:27 if you have the lane-keeping assistant on,

07:29 every single time it does anything

07:32 with regards to lanes or the steering intervention,

07:35 it stops you from changing the menus in the center

07:37 until you've pushed and held OK.

07:40 So, you'll see here, if I use these buttons,

07:42 nothing happens.

07:42 If I push and hold OK, it will then clear that,

07:46 and then I can go through the different menus

07:47 and do what I need to do.

07:49 This becomes a problem when you're driving

07:50 because the lane departure stuff intervenes all the time,

07:53 and to make any changes,

07:54 you need to then push and hold this.

07:55 So, I just wish there was a button that you could press

07:57 to just make that work

07:59 without having to just agree to this warning

08:02 every single time it comes up.

08:03 So, yeah, a little bit frustrating,

08:05 and I think, in a way, the step down from this car,

08:07 the Can-Am L, with its just analog gauges,

08:10 is probably slightly better than this digital setup,

08:12 at least until they fix this and get it working properly.

08:15 Let's talk about safety.

08:16 So, you have autonomous emergency braking

08:18 with pedestrian detection.

08:19 You have a lane departure warning

08:21 and a lane keeping assistant.

08:22 You've got blind spot monitoring just over here.

08:24 You have rear cross traffic alert.

08:27 You have an auto-dimming rear vision mirror,

08:29 radar cruise control.

08:30 On the parking front,

08:31 you have front and rear parking sensors and a 360 camera.

08:34 I'll show you what that looks like.

08:36 That is super high resolution.

08:37 I love that.

08:38 So, very good detail there,

08:40 decent detail on the top down view.

08:42 And then you can select a couple of different angles as well,

08:45 so you can get the full wide angle at the rear.

08:48 You can also do is get this view down the front,

08:53 and then you can also look down the sides of the car as well,

08:56 so you can see exactly what those front tyres are doing.

08:58 So, yeah, really good setup with guidelines as well.

09:01 So, practicality, we'll start with the connectivity.

09:03 You've got two USB ports down here,

09:06 one 12-volt outlet, a wireless phone charging pad,

09:09 and a secret USB outlet up the top here,

09:12 which is for dash cam integration.

09:14 Then where are you gonna put your phone?

09:15 Well, phone can live, let's get rid of this cable,

09:18 down on the wireless phone charger,

09:20 or you can pop it here in the cup holder.

09:22 That's all pretty straightforward.

09:24 Coffee cup.

09:25 So, this little section here moves forwards and backwards,

09:28 and that reveals your cup holders.

09:29 You've got two sizes.

09:30 You've got a small one, which fits your coffee cup easily.

09:33 Then you have a deeper one, which is designed for a bottle.

09:36 Both of those have like a little arm on them

09:37 to stop the bottle from walking around too much.

09:40 And then inside the door, you can fit your small bottle.

09:42 See if we can fit our big bottle.

09:44 Mm, not really.

09:47 That's sort of, yeah, no, it'll fall out

09:49 if we put that down there so that doesn't fit.

09:51 More storage.

09:52 Centre console here.

09:53 So, as I mentioned, that goes forwards and backwards.

09:55 And then under there, you have a pretty deep storage slot.

09:58 You've got a glove box down here.

10:00 Not a bad size.

10:02 And finally, your sunglasses holder.

10:04 It's not here, but here.

10:06 Handy little spot.

10:07 And in terms of comfort,

10:08 you have single zone automatic climate control.

10:12 You've got heated seats for the first row.

10:13 Power seat adjustment, so forwards, backwards.

10:16 Backrest as well.

10:17 And then you can also lift the base of the seat.

10:20 Seats are pretty comfy, so they look cool

10:21 with that sort of quilted design on them,

10:23 and they just hug you in nicely.

10:25 Steering wheel offers both tilt and reach adjustment.

10:29 And in terms of our reach test,

10:32 yeah, all easy to reach, just this stuff.

10:33 You need to lean in just a little bit

10:35 to catch the outer edge of those controls.

10:37 Now, before I hop into the back,

10:39 I'll run you through this setup.

10:40 It's kind of unique to this segment

10:41 because you've got a 60/40 split folding seat,

10:44 which you don't really see in utes.

10:46 That means you can drop this side.

10:48 It gives you a little bit of storage behind the back

10:49 and access to one of the two top tether points.

10:52 Then what you can also do is lift the base,

10:54 and that's where you'll find a warning triangle

10:57 plus a couple of other tools.

10:58 And I love the fact that that stays up on its own.

11:01 Same story on this side.

11:02 You give this tab a pull.

11:04 You get access to the jack and your other top tether point.

11:07 And then same story over here.

11:09 You get a little bit of storage space

11:10 and can lift both of those up

11:11 if you want to load something in sideways.

11:13 All right, we grab the handy handle, get ourselves in.

11:17 That's a great amount of leg room.

11:20 So plenty of knee room, toe room is excellent,

11:22 and headroom is fantastic too.

11:25 You can see the seats follow that theme at the front.

11:27 It's quite a premium looking setup.

11:29 Got mat pockets back here, air vents.

11:31 You have a power socket here.

11:33 That's AC up to 120 watts.

11:35 You also have a USB charging port.

11:38 There's a center armrest here.

11:39 No cup holders though, so it is just for resting your arm.

11:42 But you can put your bottle inside the door if you need to.

11:45 There's plenty of storage space there.

11:46 So great space back here.

11:48 Very impressed with the amount of room.

11:50 And it really just, it is hard to find things

11:54 that I don't like about this at this price point.

12:00 We've hit the road in the GWM Cannon.

12:03 Look, let's start off with the engine.

12:05 So two liter turbocharged four cylinder diesel engine

12:08 makes 120 kilowatts of power and 400 newton meters of torque.

12:12 Not really the most,

12:13 and you kind of feel it behind the wheel

12:15 when you sort of bury the foot.

12:17 It moves, but it's very leisurely.

12:20 And it does this thing that a lot of the Chinese utes do,

12:24 and even the SsangYong does as well.

12:27 When you take off from a standing start,

12:29 if I put the foot down,

12:31 it will just do nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing,

12:34 everything.

12:35 But if I then come to a stop and then load up the throttle

12:38 and then take off, it's instant.

12:41 So it seems odd to me.

12:42 Why would you not just make it instant?

12:43 There's this lag there for some reason.

12:45 I think it could all be solved with an ECU tune,

12:47 but it is there anyway.

12:48 It's all mated to an eight speed ZF automatic transmission.

12:51 Now ZF, great gearboxes.

12:53 They use them in a lot of high-end European cars.

12:56 So it's good to see them fitting it here.

12:57 The gearbox itself is one of the highlights

12:59 of the package.

13:00 It just is very responsive

13:02 and it's always ready to rumble as well.

13:03 You don't ever have to wait for it to pick the right gear.

13:06 It's just intuitive enough to give you

13:07 everything that you need.

13:08 Let's talk fuel economy.

13:09 So GWM claims a combined figure of 9.4 litres per 100 Ks.

13:14 We are currently sitting on 12.4,

13:18 which is significantly higher.

13:19 I think it is worth explaining.

13:20 This car has been with us over the last couple of days

13:23 on off-road shoots.

13:24 So it has been doing a lot of idling and off-road driving.

13:26 So I would expect that figure to be a little less

13:28 if you're doing just your typical city and highway run.

13:31 One thing I'll run you through here

13:33 is the drive mode selector.

13:35 So you've got three modes to choose from.

13:36 You have Sport, Eco and Normal.

13:39 Now the interesting thing is Eco

13:41 actually decouples the front axle entirely.

13:44 So it's just rear wheel drive.

13:46 So you do feel the steering becomes a little lighter

13:48 because you're not sending any drive to the front axle.

13:50 And it also saves fuel

13:52 because you don't have to send torque to the front axle.

13:55 Sport mode makes the steering heavy

13:57 and puts it into its all-wheel drive mode.

13:59 And then Normal, it's just an auto-adaptive mode.

14:02 So when it does detect slip,

14:04 it will then send torque to the front axle,

14:06 but it's always ready to go and engaged.

14:08 There's a curious thing here as well.

14:09 I saw this first on, I think Hyundai i30.

14:12 I had this button on the steering wheel.

14:13 What it does is it allows you to change

14:15 the amount of weighting in the steering wheel.

14:18 So you've got Comfort, Light and then Sports.

14:21 And in sports, it's like a McLaren.

14:24 It's just really heavy.

14:25 So I guess it's good that it offers that,

14:27 but yeah, not something

14:29 that I'd probably be using all that much.

14:30 One thing that will get old very quickly is this sound.

14:33 (car beeping)

14:36 Every single time you do pretty much anything,

14:38 it's making that beeping sound,

14:40 including changing the drive mode.

14:41 So yeah, I don't know that there's a way to switch that off.

14:44 Let me know if there is.

14:45 Okay, let's pop this into Sport mode.

14:49 Pop it through our corner as well.

14:51 See how it feels.

14:53 It's actually pretty good.

14:55 You've got electrically assisted steering.

14:56 So you get enough feel through the rack.

14:59 It's not amazing, but it's not the worst I've ever tested

15:01 in this price bracket either.

15:03 And it will hold the gear in sports.

15:05 So you actually get a little bit of pickup

15:07 as you power out of a corner.

15:08 Obviously not designed to be driven like that,

15:10 but if you do decide to go for a fun drive,

15:12 it's probably not gonna make you

15:14 the most disappointed person in the world.

15:15 Our turning circle comes in at 13.1 metres.

15:19 Pretty big.

15:20 I think that is going to be three-point territory.

15:23 Yep, very much three-point territory.

15:25 Yeah, even in this Eco mode

15:27 where it decouples the front axle,

15:29 it's still quite a big turn.

15:30 But the good news is steering is pretty light at low speed.

15:34 So parking should be a piece of cake.

15:36 GWM doesn't have an official zero to 100 time,

15:39 but we've put it up against our stopwatch

15:41 and this is how it went.

15:42 (car engine roaring)

15:45 Let's talk about ride.

15:59 So look, it's interesting because the ride is soft.

16:03 It's almost too soft.

16:04 And as a result of that,

16:05 you find that it floats over bumps

16:07 and where we're driving now on this country road,

16:09 it really is just picking up everything

16:11 and it becomes a little nauseating after a while.

16:14 Being leaf sprung,

16:15 it is just the way it is with leaf spring vehicles.

16:17 You have to put some load in them for them to settle,

16:20 but I think the damping could do

16:21 just a little bit more work.

16:22 We found with the old EVT60, for example,

16:24 tuned in Australia,

16:25 and it feels much nicer than this

16:27 on the same kind of terrain.

16:29 And on the noise front,

16:30 it's actually quite pleasant in here.

16:31 So it's not dead silent,

16:33 it's not a Rolls Royce

16:33 and it's not quite as quiet as the SsangYong Musso,

16:36 but even if you get stuck into the throttle,

16:39 it's just a light diesel thrum.

16:41 It doesn't really sort of invade the cabin

16:43 and it's not your dominant sound.

16:45 And likewise on the road,

16:46 you will notice tire noise as you traverse course chip roads,

16:49 but for the most part, it's not really too bad.

16:51 So visibility, what's it like?

16:53 It's good.

16:54 The driving position is fairly high.

16:55 I can see clearly down the fronts there.

16:57 It is a long vehicle,

16:58 so thankfully that reverse camera's great

17:00 and the wing mirrors are huge as well

17:02 with the blind spot monitor on the pillar there.

17:04 Visibility out the back is good as well.

17:06 The only downside is that centre headrest

17:08 sits right in your way.

17:09 So I'd probably be getting rid of that

17:11 if you bought one of these.

17:13 Okay, let's do a little bit of light off-roading.

17:15 So you have four-wheel drive high range,

17:17 four-wheel drive low range.

17:19 As I talked about when we went out for a drive,

17:21 you can put this into a two-wheel drive mode.

17:23 I assume when it's in this mode here

17:25 that it is just locked into four-wheel drive.

17:27 You do have a rear diff lock as well

17:29 and hill descent control.

17:30 In terms of the actual specs,

17:31 you have 194 millimetres of ground clearance,

17:34 which really isn't a huge amount for a dual cab ute

17:37 that has off-road intentions.

17:38 You've got a 27 degree approach angle.

17:40 That's the angle of the face you can approach

17:42 before you hit anything at the front

17:43 and a 25 degree departure angle,

17:45 which is the same but in reverse.

17:47 Now, if none of that makes any sense to you,

17:48 click up here to watch our four-wheel drive

17:50 controls explained video, but let's give this a crack.

17:53 I've just left it in just its standard four-wheel drive mode

17:55 and I'm hoping it will be able to get up here

17:58 just on its own accord without the rear diff locked.

18:02 See what happens.

18:03 And then we'll use hill descent control on the way down.

18:06 So because of that soft ride,

18:08 it's actually quite comfortable going up here.

18:11 There is just a little bit of touchiness there,

18:14 but for the most part,

18:15 it's getting up here without any dramas at all.

18:17 Cool, that was good.

18:18 Okay, let's put the hill descent control on

18:22 and we'll see what it's like on the way down here.

18:24 Okay, I've let go of the brake.

18:27 Wow, it's noisy.

18:28 Probably a little fast for my liking,

18:32 so I'm gonna take over there

18:33 'cause that was kind of running away from us.

18:36 Okay, let's see how it goes through here

18:38 when we drop a few wheels in.

18:39 Yeah, look, it's coping with that okay.

18:43 We haven't touched down anywhere there, which is good.

18:45 I would have thought with 194 mil of ground clearance,

18:47 it probably would have.

18:49 But yeah, I think that hill descent control

18:50 is probably just a tiny bit too quick.

18:53 Just needs to be reined in just a little bit.

18:55 Let's go through our Seesaw and the Offset Mogul.

18:57 This is where we're gonna see how rigid the chassis is

19:01 and whether there's any flex.

19:03 Switch that parking sensor off.

19:05 (whimpers)

19:07 Anyway, it was just uneasy going through that.

19:12 Okay, here we go.

19:13 So we'll get it into a spot here

19:15 where it's got two wheels off the ground.

19:17 There it is, so it's sort of rocking on its own.

19:19 No dramas at all.

19:22 We did LDV T60 through here and the door caught on the close

19:27 which meant there was a lot of body flex.

19:29 Here it's all very rigid.

19:30 I'll be keen to see when we get to our Offset Mogul here

19:33 how it copes without the rear diff locked

19:37 because we're gonna have one wheel entirely in the air.

19:39 It should in theory basically set itself up

19:42 so that it can just power through it

19:45 using traction control and the high range four-wheel drive.

19:48 So here we go here.

19:49 Coming up to that now.

19:52 Got that wheel in the air at the back.

19:54 I'm gonna just roll off the throttle now.

19:55 Let's see what happens.

19:56 Yeah, there you go.

20:02 We're not going anywhere.

20:02 It's engaging traction control.

20:05 And if I stay in it, we will eventually move

20:12 but nothing is going on.

20:13 So let's give that another crack this time

20:15 with the rear diff lock engaged

20:17 and we'll see if we can actually get out of there

20:18 without having to go too crazy with the throttle.

20:21 Okay, let's give this another shot.

20:24 We'll run through.

20:25 We have the rear diff locked this time around

20:27 and I'm hoping now it'll be fuss free.

20:29 Just before I was able to get out of there

20:31 just by staying in the throttle

20:32 and letting the traction control do its thing

20:33 but it got pretty messy

20:35 and it really shouldn't take that much effort

20:37 to get out of something as simple as that.

20:38 So hopefully this time around

20:39 we'll get it set up in the same way

20:41 and hopefully the rear diff lock will do its thing.

20:43 So there it is there where one leg off the ground

20:47 rolling out of the brake.

20:48 Piece of cake.

20:51 It gets out of there without even trying.

20:52 So good.

20:53 I like that.

20:54 I like the fact that you can use the diff lock in high range

20:56 and that it is as easy as that to activate it

20:58 to really just get yourself out of a basic bind.

21:02 (upbeat music)

21:04 Okay, so the GWM Canon.

21:07 Just by chance we've literally been testing

21:09 all of the, I guess, non-hype brand utes at the moment.

21:13 So the SsangYong Musso, the LDV-T60 Max

21:16 and then this thing as well.

21:18 I'll tell you what, this is,

21:20 it really just feels head and shoulders above the others

21:22 in terms of it being a complete package.

21:24 For just over $40,000

21:26 you are getting just an incredible amount of features.

21:29 My favorite being the step into the tray at the back.

21:32 The fact that it also sits on a hydraulic arm as well.

21:35 I think it really just gives you everything that you need.

21:38 It is a little let down in terms of the engine.

21:40 It could use a little bit more punch

21:42 and the ride probably needs a little bit more work as well.

21:44 But if you're not too conscious about brands

21:47 you really should be looking at this

21:48 and discounting the others in the segment

21:50 because it is right where it needs to be.

21:52 So let me know in the comment section below

21:54 have you bought one of these?

21:55 I'm seeing stacks of them out on the road.

21:57 So it does look like people are buying them.

21:59 I'm curious to know what your buying experience

22:01 has been like and what ownership is like as well

22:04 because I can see why people go to the big brands.

22:06 You've got lots of dealerships and that kind of thing.

22:08 But let me know what you think about this

22:10 and how it's been for you in the comment section below.

22:12 If you did enjoy this video

22:13 please make sure you like it and share it with your mates.

22:15 And if you haven't done so already,

22:16 subscribe to our channel and press the bell icon.

22:19 But until next time, drive safely.

Category

Transcript

Recommended