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"Automotive Industry concern" from the latest issue of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology new car declaration catalogue query to Harvard's new SUV model has appeared in the declaration catalogue. The new car is code-named B26, located in the hardline SUV, and is expected to be powered by Great Wall's latest Hi4 intelligent hybrid four-wheel drive system.

The information in the declaration chart shows that the tail mark of the new car has a number of logos, including "Veyron", "Big Dog PRO", "Thunderdog" and other names in addition to the "Raptor" logo. It should be noted that the car, which had previously been declared by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology under the name of "Xianglong" in June, was renamed "Raptor" this time.

In terms of appearance, the new car uses a square hard style, the front face is designed with rugged double three horizontal grids and is embellished with exposed rivets, with a brand new "HAVAL" English logo in the middle, with a high degree of recognition. There are retro round headlights on both sides, and the design of the headlights and front bumper is basically the same as that of the Harvard Dog. In addition, the front of the new car is surrounded and the lower part of the door is surrounded by anti-friction panels, which is full of hard style.

On the side of the body, the shape of the new car is also more square, with a protruding wheel arch, with a black side skirt with off-road style and black five-spoke rims, creating a good sense of strength, and a luggage rack is added to the roof, which is in line with its hard-line style. In the rear part, the new car taillight is designed in a split square shape, which is somewhat similar to the fixed vision of the Land Rover Guardian. The rear part is equipped with external spare tire, the trunk is designed with side opening, and is equipped with optional trailer hook. The total mass of quasi-trailer is 750kg without brake and 1500kg with brake.

In terms of size, the length, width and height of the new car are 4800/1916/1822mm, the wheelbase is 2738mm, and the interior seat is 5-seat layout. On the power side, the new car will be equipped with a plug-in hybrid system, in which the 1.5T engine code-named GW4B15E has a maximum power of 167hp and matches the lithium iron phosphate battery pack.

Judging from the comments and feedback from netizens, the design of the new car is quite acceptable, and at the same time, many netizens beg not to name it at random.

Data show that in the first half of this year, Harvard brand sales totaled 292600 vehicles, up 1.29% from the same period last year, including 59000 in June, up 15.08% from the same period last year. The industry believes that the reason for the growth of the Harvard brand is related to its new Harvard owning dragon / fierce dragon MAX model.

According to the data, the top three models sold by the Harvard brand in June were the Harvard H6, the Harvard Big Dog and the Haverong MAX, with sales of 14267, 10718 and 6098 respectively. Among them, Harvard Owl Dragon / Owl Dragon MAX is a new product launched by the Harvard brand in May, after Great Wall named the Harvard brand "Haverong net".

From the latest declaration information, whether the previous "Xianglong" or this "Raptor", from the naming way, all belong to the dragon series SUV, the industry believes that the emergence of dragon sequence or further enrich Harvard's products in the field of SUV, while the addition of hardline off-road models will increase the selectivity of dragon series products.

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