Great Wall’s Tianjin Factory opens its doors, GWM H6 rolls down the lines

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The Hover H6 was the first car to roll down Great Wall Motors brand new factory in Tianjin today, the new factory will be expanded in three phases with the final phase giving GWM a max production capacity of 800,000 cars at the plant. Phase 1 will see production at 250,000 units per year, phase 2 will add another 300,000 and the 3rd phase will see capacity raised by 500,000 giving a total production capacity of 800,000 units by 2014.

The first car to come out of Tianjin was the new Hover H6 SUV which rolled down the line this afternoon, the H6 will GWM’s fight back against joint venture SUV’s that have eaten into the SUV market over the past few years. Although the H6 has Hover in its name, the cuddly SUV is actually based on a new platform and not chassis based as with its heavy brethen. The H6 will come with the choice of automatic or manual gearboxes as well as gasoline and diesel engines, a 2.0T diesel and a 2.0L gasoline engine are installed. Prices start at 95,800 for the base 2.0L gasoline model and top out at 141,800 for the best diesel model.