Haval H6 2022 review Find out why you see so many of these SUVs on the road

 G'day i'm Syed Faizan so this is a car that you guys have requested me Detailed blog on a number of occasions and we've finally got our hands on one it's called the HAVAL H6 this thing here competes with things like the toyota rav4 the Mazda cx-5 the hyundai tucson this one here is the mid specification lux version it's priced at just under 6.8M PKR but if that's too expensive the whole range kicks off at just under 31 grand today we're going to do a detailed review of this car  because that's going to tell you every single time we review something new okay let's talk exterior you've got six external colors to pick from all but white is an additional 5 LACS PKR now what about the design I actually think it looks pretty good i don't mean this to sound offensive but chinese cars sometimes look like copies of other cars whereas this i think it stands on its own two feet they haven't had to lean on any other cars for their design inspiration i think that's a really good thing got a giant grill up the front here with a chrome finish it's like a bit of a shadow chrome finish big havel brand just there camera down the front i think the design really just stands out on the road and it looks very premium it certainly looks and feels like it's worth a whole lot more than its asking price you've got a set of full led headlights over here with led daytime running lights led fog lights as well come around to the side we have 18 inch alloy wheels the design look it's it's pretty sort of straightforward you've got that sort of chromey look on the outside and then the graphite look on the inside there fairly chubby profile on the tyre as well which means 

 

                        It should ride pretty well plastic wheel arches there to signify that um you know you're driving an SUV you need everyone to know indicator built into that wing mirror with a little camera there for the 360 camera you've got lashings of chrome down the bottom then along this sort of glass house with roof rails privacy glass and come around to the back so you've got a shark fin aerial up the top there a little sort of boot lip spoiler here one of the first things i noticed when these first hit the road was this big led strip along the back there looks quite imposing and definitely makes this stand out at night time you've got big havel branding along the back there gwm which is great wall motors and then over here the model designation and the engine because this is the two liter petrol now here's an interesting thing this looks big and that's because it is it's about 100 millimeters longer than a mazda cx-5 so you get the impression that it does feel a lot bigger and um yeah when you put the tape measure against it it is actually significantly bigger than a lot of the competitors in this segment okay so we're inside h6 we will start with the key here it is you've got a panic button lock boot unlock and then havel along the back there it's a proximity sensing case you just leave that in your pocket and once you're inside you have a push button start here okay so what about the interior layout the design i think this looks really nice it looks very premium and i don't know i keep going back to the price and it just seems like you're getting a lot of value for money here you look at these screens that have only just really come into fashion now with things like the new hyundai tucson and i think that they've gone to a lot of effort to make sure that these materials all look and feel premium to the touch despite the fact this not having a really premium price tag not a huge fan of the piano black sort of all along there but it's  fairly minimal in terms of its use so that looks good in terms of our touch points that's not too bad and then not too bad over there as well how soft are they well we've got our durometer we've tested the main surfaces in this cabin if you want to see how this car compares to others we've tested before have a look at the link in the description now what about builds quality let's have a look it all feels really good and what about the door that sounds really good it feels very Asian how did that happen okay moving on to infotainment and there are two screens here so you've got a 10.25 inch screen here on the left and then a 10.25 inch screen ahead of the driver i'll run you through both of those but let's start over here with infotainment it does look very sharp and it's very quick and i know just does everything really impressively and i wasn't expecting something like this in in this type of car so it's got this section here which is your home screen it's divided into three parts you've got radio which includes am and fm no dib digital radio unfortunately you have this central section which is your Bluetooth streaming then you have climate over to the right one more swipe brings you over to the c heaters and also drive mode selection you can also swipe down from the top if you want to access some of the shortcuts for your brightness and volume over here we have the ability to go through all the different menu sections and i'll run you through the smartphone mirroring has both apple carplay and android auto they're both wired so this is what apple carplay looks like so full screen integration that's fairly quick a tiny tiny bit laggy but for the most part that's not too bad and this is what android auto looks like so there you go same thing full screen integration nice and sharp and quick actually not quite quick you can see it's just a tiny bit laggy there but for the most part that's fine it won't be too much of a drama and then also on the steering wheel you have a voice recognition button that allows you to communicate with your phone when it is paired and in terms of sound you have an eight speaker sound system it's ok nothing spectacular yeah what about the screen ahead of the driver so i mentioned earlier another 10.25 inch display this one comes with all the basic functions you'd expect you've got a tire pressure gauge you have all your safety systems now the interesting thing is you can change the theme here and currently there's this space theme with like the earth revolving around there you can pop it onto another one called and pop it into that called the space fold so it changes into that theme you'll see it come up here look at that so it is pretty cool that they've designed this to look so interesting uh and i think they've put a lot of effort into that and then you can flick between each of those uh different screens just by using the steering wheel controls here so it's a pretty cool setup and nice to see in this sort of car okay let's talk about safety so there is no safety rating just yet this car is yet to be crash tested i know that it's coming up but just keep that in mind before you purchase other safety features include autonomous emergency braking with pedestrian and cyclist detection you've got an auto dimming rear vision mirror you have lane departure warning and a lane keeping assistant you have a semi-autonomous steering function doesn't really work that well it has also this mode when it is in its radar cruise control where it slows down for corners but it does it really aggressively and it just needs a lot of work that stuff but you do get radar cruise control with the stalk down here you have a blind spot monitor built into that wing mirror and you also have a 360 camera with both front and rear parking sensors and i'll show you what that looks like okay so you get a 3d view and have a look at this if i open my door and then close it how cool is that so it actually animates all of that you can spin that around yourself so the top down view is a little bit pixelated but if you go to the 2d view it's actually quite high resolution quite sharp you can see those lines there move with your steering then you've got a number of other views you can select so rear tyres just there for parking got a wide angle view of the rear then what you can also do is turn some of these lines on and off so yeah a whole bunch of really cool options there and that all comes standard which is uh pretty nice moving on to practicality and we'll start with your phone connectivity so you've got one usb port down there another one on this side 12 volts on this side as well there's also one more usb port up the top here and that is for your dash cam this car misses out on wireless phone charging it comes standard on the top specs so you do have a place there for your phone but it's um it won't actually charge or do any anything like that you can also pop your phone down here as well there's plenty of storage options now let's go to our coffee cup you think to yourself wow that just moves around everywhere but you've got this little thing that pops out there and allows you to put your drinks in and then it stops them sort of moving around too much same story with your bottle just slide that up and it holds your bottle in position got storage inside the doors i'll try a big bottle inside the door and see if it holds that yeah kind of if you sort of wedge it in there it kind of holds it in terms of other storage you have this console here that is huge it's nice and deep plenty of storage space there you also have this area down the bottom glove box that's a look hey that's reasonably sized that's not too bad and finally you have a sunglasses holder up the top here moving on to comfort you have dual zone automatic climate control you also have heated seats for the first row the seats themselves now these are interesting the design's kind of cool I like this sort of wedged out cut out section the white stitching on the black looks pretty nice as well they just don't really hug you in they've got heaps of room either side and the bottom is a bit flat and in terms of the adjustment the driver's seat is fully electrically adjustable so you can go forwards backwards you can move that backrest get your bolster out as well you can't lift the base up though and i find that it's sometimes a little tricky to find a comfortable driving position the passenger seat is fully manually adjustable then in terms of the steering you can go up and down in and out as well so plenty of adjustability there and finally our reach test easy to reach all the shortcut buttons

                                 

                       There and that is easy to reach as well 

second row um there is a surprising amount of legroom here have a look at this i have loads of knee room toe room is good and head room is excellent and that's despite the fact this seat is pretty much all the way back so there is a heap of room here you've got events here for the kids to keep them happy two usb charging points the same seat design with that sculpted cutout you've got a center armrest here with two cupholders so you've got fits the balls in nicely and then you've got rubber teeth as well can't fit these in the doors though there's sort of nowhere to really put them which is a little bit disappointing and you've got two map pockets here finally two isofix points on the outboard seats with three top tether points so what about cargo space well it's actually a pretty impressive setup you have 600 litres of cargo space available just in its standard trim here you'll notice here with the cargo floor beneath it you have a space saver spare tire but it's a dual tiered floor so you can drop that down to give you a little bit of extra space or it gives you a hidey hole if you have it up the top so you can't see your contents from the outside you've got storage off to the sides here led lights and then i'll pop this in see how that goes look at that no drums at all that is a really decently sized boot and then if you do want to expand the space a little more you can drop your second row and that expands the space to a little under 1500 liters but i would like to see releases off to the side here because it is a fair stretch to actually reach those okay we've hit the road in the havel h6 now powering this exclusively across the range is a two-liter turbo charged four-cylinder petrol engine makes 150 kilowatts of power and 320 newton meters of torque you can get this as an all-wheel drive but only in the top spec the rest of the range is front-wheel drive only all of that torque is sent through a seven speed dual clutch transmission now you know how i feel about dual clutch transmissions uh let's see what this is like from a standing start i did notice earlier it does some really funny stuff if you get on the throttle a little too hard that's not very good let me try that again yeah it is just super lurchy and then if you have any lock on it just arcs up the wheels and uh you end up doing burnouts which I just think is a little anti-social and I think that throttle just needs a little bit of calibration but what's it like once it's moving give it just a little punch here actually feels really good even when you go from a low speed so i'll just dial back the speed here something much slower and just give it a punch from a bit of a standing start it's fitting the wheels now as well it actually has a fair bit of pickup like it's it's surprising i wasn't expecting it to be as punchy because when you look at those numbers on paper 320 newton meters of torque is not the most amount of torque in the world but it really does pick up and go nicely and we'll try punching it now just while we're on the move gearbox is okay it's just it's not very quick to respond so it just takes a little while to do anything despite the fact it is a dual clutch often manufacturers will use those for fuel economy as opposed to performance gains now speaking about fuel economy have claims a combined fuel efficiency of 7.4 liters per 100ks let's have a look at what we're sitting on at the moment 9.3 so it is higher than that figure but there are a few caveats here um just because of the weather and what it's like today we had to switch up our filming so we've done a lot of the performance driving for the outside shots earlier in the day so instead of just being driven on the highway this car's had a little bit of a performance run so given that that figure isn't actually too bad i think if you're doing predominantly highway driving and taking it fairly easy you should actually get quite close to that figure and then in terms of the other drive modes you've got you've got normal sport eco snow then you can also configure your steering mode so you can go comfort sport light it really does have a raft of controls here that you can play with thankfully all of these electronic aids such as the lane keeping assistant all the other things that beep at you can be switched off and they stay off as well I turned off the lane keeping assistant this morning and it hasn't come back on which is really good news now what's the ride like well it is really soft it's very floaty and it feels very luxury but there is a bit of an issue and i'm going to just accelerate a little bit here so you can get an idea of what i'm talking about we've got our continuous undulations here and this is a real good test of body control as speeds pick up so now i'm doing about 120 here we'll hit these bumps and bang all the way down there we're bottoming out and that's at just above legal highway speed here in victoria you can go that quick in other states it really does lack body control at that top end so while it is nice in and around town it really does feel like it needs a bit of work done to it on the ride and handling it feels like they've just taken this straight from china where I suspect uh it is just a lot of highway driving and this type of ride is acceptable but here it really is i don't know it's not quite sick inducing but it makes you feel a little queasy if you are on a sort of faster stretch of windy roads you feel like the thing isporpoising and feels like a bit of a boat when you really start to get into those corners now speaking of getting into those corners let's pop it into sport mode just to see what it's like through our little circuit here funny thing is it puts the hazard lights on so people around you know that it's in sport mode uh we'll tip it into this corner look it's got a fair bit of body roll there and if i lean on the throttle it picks up and goes that's a funny thing it's it's sort of not really overly dynamic but it feels nice and punchy behind the wheel it even has a little bit of an engine note to it as well which i think is pretty cool now we don't have an official 0-100 time from havel but we've put it up against our stopwatch and this is how it went we had traction control kick in just a little bit there so i'm going to switch that off and we'll try that once more see if it's any quicker let's talk visibility so at the front here it is good i have really great visibility across the front of the car I can see the edges of it as well the wing mirrors are really big so i can clearly see down the sides there you've also got a blind spot monitor built into those visibility at the rear isn't great the window is very narrow and from where I'm sitting here i just see the top edge of the road i really don't see too much as you sort of venture down the back of the car so i think that window really needs to increase in size to improve that rearward visibility and what about road noise well this is a coarse chip section of road as the speed picks up you do get a bit more of it translating into the cabin but for the most part it's a really quiet environment today's quite windy outside and i'm not hearing a great deal of wind noise coming into the cabin so it's a big tick there in terms of refinement what about your ground clearance so front wheel drive you're not going to be going off-road but you do have 170 millimeters of ground clearance it'll get you over very minor obstacles and then in terms of towing capacity you have a 2 000 kilogram braked towing capacity okay so the havel h6 what do i reckon look it did surprise me i was pretty impressed with it and look i can understand why it's 20 000 cheaper than something like i don't know the hyundai tucson we're testing today it's in that class because ultimately it doesn't have the body control it's not quite as refined and you can feel that there's probably still a little bit more work to be done but if that's not an issue for you it's actually 15 lacs PKR cheaper and it comes with virtually everything you find in the more expensive cars in this segment it has loads of room inside the engine's really punchy and it does the sort of city run very easily and comes with a competitive warranty as well so look while i understand that it's not quite there yet in terms of being competitive as a driver's car it does everything else well enough and I can't say that spending like 12 lacs PKR for the tucson is really going to revolutionize your driving experience it is worth pointing out as well that this has not been crash tested yet so i would not be buying it until they have done a crash test because we don't know how it's going to perform compared to some of the more established players in the segment so keep that in mind but if you have bought one what's it been like and what's it like long term i'm really keen to hear from you owners out there so let me know your thoughts in the 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