The Great Wall Pao ( zh, t=長城炮, hp=Cháng chéng pào) also known as the POER P11/P12,
Cannon, P-Series, RUMAN, or SUCAN is a range of mid-size
pick-ups manufactured in China by the Chinese manufacturer
Great Wall Motors
Great Wall Motor Co., Ltd. (GWM) is a Chinese privately owned automobile manufacturer headquartered in Baoding, Hebei. Founded in 1984, it is currently the eighth largest automobile manufacturer in China, with 1.281 million sales in 2021.
The co ...
since 2019.
Overview
The Great Wall Pao debuted on April 16, 2019 during the 2019
Shanghai Auto Show
Auto Shanghai (), officially known as the Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition (), is a biennial international automobile show that alternates with the Beijing Auto Show (Auto China) as China's yearly international automotive ...
. The Pao is available in three different versions, including a standard passenger model, an off-road model, and a commercial-oriented model. An electric version was also revealed but was not available at launch.
The Pao is built on the P71 platform of Great Wall Motors, which also used for the Haval H9 SUV, and is powered by a 2.0 liter turbo inline-4 gasoline engine code named GW4C20B with a maximum output of 197hp. Four wheel drive is optional and the transmission is a 8-speed automatic gearbox or a 6-speed manual gearbox. The standard cargo bed is sized 1520mm by 1520mm by 538mm.
File:Great Wall Pao IMG007.jpg, Great Wall Pao base trim (front)
File:Great Wall Pao IMG008.jpg, Great Wall Pao base trim (back)
File:Great Wall Pao IMG005.jpg, Great Wall Pao Off-road edition (front)
File:Great Wall Pao IMG006.jpg, Great Wall Pao Off-road edition (back)
As the GWM Ute
In October 2020, GWM Australia announced that a version of the Pao badged as the GWM Ute would be launched in the country as a replacement for the
Great Wall Steed
The Great Wall Wingle is series of pick-up trucks manufactured by the Chinese company Great Wall Motors (风骏) since 2010, based on the original Great Wall Wingle — since renamed the Great Wall Wingle 3. The second version is the Great ...
. The pick-up/ute will be their first vehicle sold under the re-branded GWM name and will be sold in three dual-cab versions: the Cannon, Cannon-L and top-of-the-range Cannon-X. GWM New Zealand also sells the Pao under the same GWM Ute badging.
As the GWM P-Series
In October 2020, Haval South Africa announced that a version of the Pao badged as the GWM P-Series would be launched in the country as an eventual replacement for the Great Wall Steed. In South Africa, the P-Series is sold in three versions: Commercial Single Cab, Commercial Double Cab, and Passenger Double Cab.
As the GWM POER
In December 2021, GWM's distributor in Brunei, Berjaya Sdn Bhd launched a version of the Pao Passenger and Commercial being badged as the POER RUMAN and POER SUCAN respectively.
POER is a sub-brand which stands for 'Powerful, Off-road, Enjoyable and Reliable', whilst the words RUMAN and SUCAN are word play from the Malay language, with RUMAN deriving from "Rumah", meaning 'house' and SUCAN coming from the word 'Sukan' which means sports in Malay.
File:POER RUMAN Reveal.png, alt=, POER RUMAN (front)
File:SUCAN Reveal.png, alt=, POER SUCAN (front)
In Malaysia, Great Wall Motor Sales Malaysia will launch two pick-up trucks under the GWM POER name, with the POER P12
being a version of the vehicle launched in Australia as the GWM Cannon Ute and the RUMAN elsewhere, and the POER P11 being the SUCAN model.
Pao EV
In September 26 2020, Great Wall Motor announced an electric version of the Pao equipped with a 150 kW / 300 Nm electric motor. Reported range was up to 405 km.
References
External links
Official website
{{Great Wall Motors
Pao
Pickup trucks
All-wheel-drive vehicles
Rear-wheel-drive vehicles
Cars introduced in 2019
Trucks of China
Cars of China