Volkswagen Tayron vs Haval H6 GT PHEV
The Volkswagen Tayron is amazingly overpriced, superbly under-specced and ridiculously feature-poor. You would indeed be stupid to buy a car like this. Buy a good plug-in hybrid instead. There are quite a few plug-in hybrids available in the Australian market today, which are quicker, cheaper and more feature laden, compared to the Tayron. There are 2 plug-in hybrids, that are at least worth a test drive, before you blow away your hard-earned cash on some German junk. The BYD Sealion 6 & the Haval H6 twins. The base Tayron with all of its hundred and ten kilowatts is not even worth talking about. The next best thing in its range is the one-fifty kilowatt life variant. Which is priced at fifty four grand, does a zero to hundred in seven and a half seconds, and comes without Ventilated Seats. That is horrible value for money, any which way you look at it. Simply because today, cars with almost twice as much power, are already on sale for one grand less, than this lower-mid variant of the Tayron. BYD just improved their Sealion 6, with an extended range battery pack, now capable of a pure EV range of around one-thirty kilometers. Lets not forget, the VW goes a whole lot of zero kilometers on pure electricity. The BYD, on the other hand, will do 90 percent of your yearly driving, powered by your home charger alone. That itself is a saving of ten thousand dollars, over a span of five to seven years. But that's not all. The BYD also has a hundred kilowatt of extra power over the Tayron. Not only does it make it 2 seconds quicker than the vee-dub, from zero to hundred, but more importantly, makes it easier to overtake. And this overtaking ability, is the real reason for giving due importance to a car's horsepower. Power is not just for drag racing. And this is where Great Wall Motors has pulled a fast one on its compatriot. The Haval H6 GT has around 70 kilowatt more power than the top-spec Sealion 6, and more than twice of that, of a similarly priced variant, of the Tayron. Plus, it has an even bigger battery, than the extended range sealion, giving it one eighty kilometers of Pure EV range. But the story doesn't end here. Because Haval, has just launched the SUV version of the H6 plug-in, for just forty nine grand. It does have a smaller, 19 kilowatt-hour battery, but still does a hundred kilometers on pure electricity. Now, if you live in an apartment, where home charging is really going to be impossible, then just look at the H6 Ultra Hybrid all wheel drive. It is priced at just forty five grand, inclusive of Ventilated Front Seats. It really makes the Tayron look stupid. It has almost eighty percent more power, than the mid-range Tayron, and 40 percent more than the top-spec Volkswagen. Bear in mind, it is twenty eight thousand dollars cheaper than the top-end Tayron. By now you must have realized that this is not a conventional walk-around review of the Tayron. It is an overview of where the Tyron stands, in today's car market. For a more conventional review, check out the link in the pinned comment.
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