The Greatwall Haval H6 debuted as an almost-ready concept at the Beijing Auto Show in April and is now getting ready to hit la market. A little more we know: it will get two engines, a 2.0 and a 2.4, both with permanent 4wd. A 2.5 TCI diesel will be available for export. Price will range from 92.800 to 158.800 yuan. Competition: Honda CR-V, Toyota RAV4 and Hyundai ix35.

Haval is Greatwall’s new brandname for SUV, it should have been ‘Hover’ but GW was unable to register that name in any country abroad so Haval it was. The H6 came as a concept but will see production within a year. It stands on the same platform as the H5’s but is 20 centimeter lower to give it a more sporty/crossover/luxurious look. Greatwall doesn’t specify the engine so likely it will be another 2.4.

Size: 4653×1820x1725, wheelbase is 2680 and weight 1600kg. It has full time 4wd and a 6 speed auto. While noting on the engine GW does specify the top speed, abracadabra, it’s 185km/h. Greatwall got a funny word to descrive the H6: Sagacity.

Greatwall made ‘Hover’ a brand and will bring at least three of ‘m to the Beijing Auto Show. Last week we saw the first live pictures of the euro-bound H5 and this is it’s sportier brother, the H6, for the Chinese market.

The H6, codenamed CHB021, will get the same 2.4 litre Mitsubishi engine as the H5 but will also be available with a new V6 diesel developed by Greatwall, and 4×4. It seems a better idea to send this one to Europe but guessingly Greatwall wants to try cheap cars first.

Someone got his or her hands on a internal Greatwall brochure about the brand’s future and put it on the web. Thanks, someone. As many other Chinese automakers Greatwall believes one brand is not enough so it will have three: Greatwall, Hover and Wingle. ‘Hover’ will so become a brand name.

The current ‘Greatwall H(over)3′ will be replaced by the Hover H5 and the current ‘Greatwall H(over)3 CUV’ by the Hover H5 CUV above.  Confusing it is, mad one would say, fortunately the brochure contained a chart:

Left the ‘Greatwall’-brand which will mostly make sedans and smaller passenger vehicles, the three middle columns are the ‘Hover’-brand which mostly will do SUV’s, the column on the right is the ‘Wingle’-brand which will make commercial vehicles such as small pick up trucks. Confusion cleared, it all makes sense.

The H5 CUV will be a more luxurious and stylish machine than the…

…more humble H5. Both though are based on the same platform. Compare dashboards:

Style.

Cheap. It’s a personal thing off course, look again, they are the same.

They call everything a SUV these days, for me this is a MPV, like some Chryslers are. Greatwall calls it the Hover H6 SUV.

But it loox all right, bit of this and a bit of that made it a nice machine together. Very likely on the same platform again with the same engines as the other H’s. That is a modern 2.0 or an older 2.4, you can’t have all at Greatwall; buyer to choose.