Designed predominantly for tradies, however equally as helpful for the house handyman, grime bike or mountain biker, farmer or camper, the 2024 GWM Cannon-L CC Cab Chassis blends practicality and toughness with a splash of sophistication and luxurious, and all for the fitting worth.
Hitting the highway at simply $40,490 drive away, it’s certainly one of seven Cannon ute variants, a roster that features 5 conventional pickups and two cab chassis, each with a free alloy tray. When it comes to bang for buck, it’s unimaginable to argue with the worth right here.
Beauty come due to 18-inch alloys, 6-way energy adjustable (driver) heated (entrance) Consolation-Tek fake leather-based seats, a premium steering wheel, 360-degree digital camera, tint, local weather, roof rails and glossy chrome highlights.
These goodies are along with keyless entry and push button begin, a ZF 8-speed auto with paddles, lively cruise, AEB with pedestrian detection, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto (wired), 3000kg towing capability and a 1050kg tray payload.
The five-seater is available in an analogous variety of colors, with our check automobile draped in Pittsburgh Silver. There’s additionally a spread of real equipment. Energy comes from a 120kW/400Nm 2.0-litre turbo diesel.
The goodies proceed with Cooper Discoverer HTS tyres, chrome plating on the entrance grille and a paint matched bumper, electroplated door handles, a 7-year limitless kilometre guarantee, 5-years roadside help and 5-years capped servicing.
Creature comforts just like the 9.0-inch infotainment touchscreen add to the enchantment of the Cannon-L, as do a number of drive modes (for each on and off highway), a digital instrument cluster, and a 6-speaker sound system.
The Canon-L CC additionally has tyre stress monitoring, hill begin help and descent management, lane preserve help, electrical folding energy adjustable mirrors, LED lighting, and entrance and rear fog lamps.
Throw in lane departure warning, visitors signal recognition and an overspeed warning, and it’s onerous to fault as a whole package deal. There are two rear ISOFIX and two tether factors, together with rear A/C vents, a 12V outlet and a correct energy level (220V/120W).
These drive modes we talked about are managed by a rotary dial and embrace Customary, Economic system, Sport, and 4L. The entrance suspension is double wishbone, with twin leaf springs on the rear. GVM is 2030kg.
The Cannon-L CC holds 78-litres of diesel and GWM declare 9.4-litres/100km. We managed 9.6-litres/100km in additional than 1,000km of testing. Whereas that’s not tremendous environment friendly, it’s not too unhealthy for an enormous 4WD.
It’s an amazingly properly spec’d automobile for the value, and whereas some received’t discover the two.0-litre motor satisfactory, the outputs are high-quality. We labored that out by loading the cab up with 5 individuals and throwing 4 days price of bags within the again.
From there, we headed away for a household journey. After 5 hours on the highway, we arrived at our vacation spot feeling in a lot the identical form as we’d if we’d taken a sedan, and the youngsters beloved the again.
Snug, properly geared up, spacious, with good visibility and loads of charging factors to maintain the youngsters units working whereas mum and pop loved Nineteen Nineties music on Spotify, the GWM impressed us after which some. As a motocross household, this ute could be ultimate.
Nicely, largely. It’s one seat brief, as we have now 4 youngsters, but it surely labored out this time. Other than the anticipated physique on chassis leaf spring harsh journey and bouncing round at occasions, which might enhance with a load onboard, the Cannon-L CC proved itself admirably.
It’s no quick ute or stump puller, but it surely will get alongside sufficiently and the eight-speed is very well matched to the engine. It’ll climb any hill, you simply must benefit from the drive, and never rush. The one time it struggled was with cruise management on, whereby it slowed for hills.
No matter drive mode although, the gearbox made the fitting selections, on the proper time. A double faucet again on the T-bar drive selector engages paddle shifting, which we tried, however felt it was not helpful on highway. It’s additionally too straightforward to by chance have interaction it through the T-bar.
The engine will not be overly loud both, which is an effective factor, and positive, it may have performed with extra energy, but it surely’s a powerful rig nonetheless. Off-road, in 4L, there’s ample grunt, and with a rear diff lock, you’d get the GWM out of virtually any scenario.
Low pace crawling and path driving is enjoyable too, in a automobile that’s succesful, tractable and though longer than its pickup sibling, has an affordable breakover angle. Strategy and departure angles are acceptable, even with the additional size of the tray.
Firmly sprung, it’s a workhorse, so anticipate bouncy progress off-road and a few intense chattering over grime highway corrugations. Dropping the tyre pressures helps dampen the latter however at pace on free bumpy roads, and may get a bit skittish.
Braking efficiency is sweet, due to four-wheel disc brakes, whereas within the moist, the place cab chassis utes can get tail joyful, the GWM remained planted. There are a number of quirks within the GWM Cannon-L CC although.
They’re issues that may drive you loopy too, like a complicated to function infotainment system, security and driver help capabilities which can be removed from refined, and a local weather management system with a thoughts of its personal.
You’ll additionally get random ahead collision warning alerts for autos in adjoining lanes, whereas the adaptive cruise management struggled with hills (as we talked about already). As has been a difficulty with different GWM autos, lane preserve help can also be unpredictable.
Switching off the assists requires a number of steps within the menu and it must be performed each time the ute is powered down and re-started. It’s an actual disgrace, given there’s a lot to love concerning the {hardware} on provide from the Cannon-L.
It presents astounding worth for cash, comes with a number of nice options, and is fashionable and properly constructed. It simply wants its software program points sorted. When GWM can repair these, we’ll purchase one in a heartbeat.
Yow will discover out extra concerning the 2024 Cannon-L CC Cab Chassis from GWM’s Australian web site, or by speaking to your native dealership.
Our check automobile was supplied by GWM Haval Australia for unbiased evaluate functions.
