The evaluation results of China Insurance Research have reached a record. Has Tank 300 really become a ＂road tank＂？

How to see the gold content of a car company through products? Some people say that it depends on the technical content of the product, and the gold content will naturally not be low if all kinds of intelligent technologies are added.

Such a statement seems to be sophistry.

Have you noticed, from Bosch and Magna to Mobileye and Horizon … There are countless high-tech manufacturers in the world providing intelligent system solutions for vehicles. Many car companies can also support the scientific and technological system of vehicles through procurement schemes.

The gold content of a car company should be in the quality itself. To give a very simple example, the gold content of Volvo brand lies in safety; The gold content of BMW lies in manipulation; The gold content of Lexus lies in the control of details …

In fact, looking at major domestic manufacturers, there are also many brands that can make us shout "something".

Great Wall Motor, for example, takes a similar path to Volvo, and interprets the kindness of this manufacturer with excellent safety.

What does the record-breaking test result mean?

On April 6th, China Insurance Automobile Safety Index (C-IASI) released a new round of vehicle evaluation results. Among them, the tank 300 from Great Wall Motor (parameter picture) can be described as brilliant.

With the achievement of "1A3G", this car has gained the best performance of non-loaded body models in recent years.

In fact, as a hard-core off-road vehicle equipped with a girder structure, it is not difficult to get good results in a 25% offset collision or side collision. After all, it is supported by a girder with a hard bottom.

The difficulty of non-load-bearing body is that the strength of the roof is difficult to optimize.

In terms of structure, the chassis and cage structure of hard-core off-road vehicle belong to two unrelated parts, and the non-load-bearing body has low requirements on the strength of the body structure. This also means that most hard-core off-road vehicles can’t disperse the pressure through the chassis like a load-bearing body when the roof is stressed. The facts also show that the strength of the roof is also the "pain point" of many off-road vehicles.

In the IIHS crash test in the United States, Toyota 4RUNNER, which is also equipped with girders, but has no in-car roll cage, only achieved "poor" results in the evaluation project of body structure due to insufficient roof strength.

However, herdsman JL, which is equipped with a girder and an in-car roll cage, can’t be equipped with an air curtain at the side of the head due to the relationship between the detachable door and the roll cage, although the body structure remains good in the collision, and the overall protection effect is also relatively general.

What about the tank 300?

In the C-IASI test, the roof of this car can bear the peak load pressure of 151,877 N at most, and the score is "G(Good)". At the same time, with a series of restraint and protection equipment such as seat belts and side air curtains, this car has got a very high score in occupant protection, and even broke the test record of China Insurance Research Institute.

It can be seen that the overall safety factor of the tank 300 is indeed not low. This refreshes the industry standard crash test results, and also adds a safe "background color" to the off-road vehicle market.

The test is as fierce as a tiger. What about actual combat?

There are many models that can always get high scores in major crash tests; However, in actual traffic accidents, the protective ability is not so satisfactory.

In fact, speaking of this, we can come up with the statement that "the environment of collision test is equivalent to a laboratory, but the actual road traffic accidents are strange and varied, and there are various tricky angles". But if we think about it carefully: what is the significance and purpose of crash testing? Isn’t it just to test the safety of vehicles and urge car companies to build safer models? Therefore, the collision test can cheat, but the real security strength can’t be mixed with any water.

If you look at the achievements of Great Wall Motor, you may be more confident.

At the end of 2020, a Wei brand VV6 carrying five people flew out of the guardrail of Guang ‘ao Expressway, falling 20 meters freely. The vehicle was unrecognizable, but the driver and passengers in the car were not serious.

On the bilibili, we can also find many videos of the tank 300 tumbling because of the driver’s reckless operation. Similarly, the tank 300 can still keep the main structure intact, allowing the driver to get out of the vehicle safely, whether it is overturned on a slope or playing with sand.

In fact, behind these accident cases, it not only proves the excellent crash test results of tank 300. At the same time, it also reflects the "conscience" of Great Wall Motor.

If we go deep into the protective ability of this car, we can probably summarize it as "reasonable design structure" and "solid material level".

Although the tank 300 based on the tank platform adopts the non-loaded body design, engineers still make a lot of optimization.

For example, in the passenger compartment structure above the chassis, the stable annular force transmission channel design is still adopted. This design concept is similar to many load-bearing body structures. In the event of a collision, the collision force can still be quickly dispersed, so as to avoid a single point being overstressed and invading the passenger compartment space. There is no doubt that this design used in non-loaded body will increase the cost and weight of the car to a certain extent, but it also avoids the inherent problems brought by non-loaded body.

Of course, it is still not enough to rely on reasonable structural design. Above the structure, what is more important is the level of materials used, which also tests whether a car company has enough conscience.

Needless to say, the trapezoidal girder chassis of the tank 300. In the test video released by C-IASI, we can see that when the tank 300 collides with 25% overlapping offset, the vehicle quickly deviates from the direction of collision energy through the design of the guiding structure, thus avoiding the problem of vehicle rolling.

At the same time, thanks to the extensive application of 1500Mpa ultra-high strength steel in the main load-bearing structure, the tank 300 has also withstood the roof pressure more than 7 times its own weight. This level has surpassed the performance of Mercedes-Benz GLE and Tesla Model Y, and is the top level in the current C-IASI test.

Practical-oriented design is a good design.

Why is the heat of tank 300 so high? In fact, in addition to off-road performance and luxurious interior, more importantly, the tank 300 meets the basic needs of many off-road enthusiasts from the perspective of user thinking. And such a basic demand is that it can bring a sense of security, and it is solid and reliable.

Let’s focus on the collision test of tank 300, which not only shows strong passive protection ability. At the same time, in the performance of maintenance economy and crashworthiness, the tank 300 still won the praise of "A"; In the active safety test, the tank 300 also got the evaluation of "G".

First of all, let’s talk about the crashworthiness of vehicles. As an off-road vehicle, the tank 300 will inevitably encounter some small bumps and low-speed collisions in daily use. But thanks to the excellent crashworthiness and maintenance economy, after a small collision, the owner doesn’t even have to take out his mobile phone to call for insurance, just leave or drive to a repair shop for simple maintenance.

On the other hand, Tesla Model Y with the same excellent passive protection performance has a crashworthiness and maintenance economy index of only "P (poor)". This also means that if a Model Y collides with the tank 300 at a low speed, the occupants in both cars may have no problem. However, the Tesla Model Y made of integrated aluminum alloy structure needs to spend tens of thousands of yuan to repair, but the owner of the tank 300 can pat his ass and leave … The advantages of the tank 300 really fit the actual needs of the car.

In addition, the tank 300, like many urban SUVs, is equipped with a perfect active safety system. For example, AEB emergency braking and lane departure assistance, with the appearance of these icing on the cake functions, consumers can effectively avoid collision accidents in the process of daily use and reduce the cost of car use.

Seeing this, you may have doubts in your heart: As an off-road vehicle with thick materials, the self-weight of Tank 300 is not light, and its fuel consumption is high. How to make up for it?

In fact, among off-road vehicles of the same class, the average fuel consumption of tank 300 is about 12L/100km, which is not outrageous compared with BJ40, MU-X and other models. In addition, safety and fuel economy are in front of you, and you can’t have both. What would you choose?

Most consumers have given their own answers.

In fact, seeing that the tank 300′ s slot is only "high fuel consumption", the Great Wall engineer may be very pleased!

After all, a car is made up of thousands of parts, and everyone can complain about "fatal problems" such as unsafe structure and insufficient reliability. But the tank 300 has almost no other slots except a little higher fuel consumption. Isn’t this model a success?

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The excellent performance of Tank 300 in this crash test has undoubtedly reassured many car owners who are ready to buy Tank 300 and Tank 500.

More importantly, no matter the excellent results in the crash test or the stable performance in the "road actual combat", the models under the Great Wall will never let people down. The gold content of Great Wall Motor is also shown in terms of safety. Perhaps in the future, Great Wall Motor will become China’s Volvo, even to the point where shine on you is better than Blue.