2022 Haval Jolion turbo detailed review (inc. 0-100)

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Can you the top specification is only $30,000 drive away? This is the 2022 Haval Jolion and it goes head-to-head with things like the Hyundai Kona, despite offering more room on the inside and outside.  Paul Maric gets behind the wheel of the car you guys have constantly been asking us to review.  Hardness tester results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/121Auf6HGvaBqRToYcuAz94alin7Sw55SpOPECBDlnKE  More Haval content: https://www.carexpert.com.au/haval More Haval Jolion content: https://www.carexpert.com.au/haval/jolion  Skip Ahead: Intro: 00:00 Exterior 00:59 Interior 02:23 Infotainment 03:47 Safety Tech 05:30 Practicality 06:24 On the road 10:09 0-100: 12:43 On the road: 12:56 Verdict 15:30  We review every new car on the market, bust car myths, cover the latest car tech and answer your burning questions.  Whether you need new car advice, purchase validation or simply love learning more about new cars and technology, we are your car experts.  Subscribe to Car Expert: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7DvMhvy3H7ntEgn9n3xQcQ?sub_confirmation=1  You'll find us dropping new video content three times a week. If you'd like to ask a question about one of our videos, simply leave us a comment. If you'd like to give us any feedback on our content, feel free to email us, or alternatively, hit us up on social media.  Finally, we want this channel to grow with your support and feedback. If there's anything you don't like or would like to see us change, we'd love to hear from you!  Follow us on social media to see what we're up to and to ask any questions!  CarExpert: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CarExpertAus Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/CarExpertAus Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carexpert.com.au  Paul Maric: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PaulMaric Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/PaulMaric Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/PaulMaric  #haval #review #jolion

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00:00 G'day, I'm Paul. So I've got to admit, sometimes I'll hop into a car and drive it around a

00:04 bit before I actually sit down and have a look at the notes and pricing and all that

00:07 sort of stuff. And I was a bit surprised when I saw how much that costs. It is the Haval

00:11 Jolion. Joline? Jolion? I don't exactly know how to pronounce it, but a lot of you have

00:16 been asking us to review it, so that's what we're doing today.

00:18 This one right here is the top specification Ultra version. It's priced at just over $30,000

00:25 drive away. The reason that surprised me is because the interior looks pretty good, the

00:29 exterior looks nice. Now if that's a little bit too expensive, the entry level is priced

00:32 at just over $25,000 drive away. This competes with things like the Hyundai Kona, the Honda

00:38 HR-V and the Kia Seltos. Today we're going to do a detailed review of this car. If you

00:43 do want to skip ahead to other parts of the review, you can use the time codes up on the

00:46 screen there, or if you're on YouTube, scroll down and use the chapters below. And if you

00:50 haven't done so already, subscribe to our channel and press the bell icon so I can listen

00:53 to more of your ideas, and you can find out every single time we publish a review you've

00:57 been asking for.

00:59 Let's talk styling. So you've got six external colours to pick from. All but white is an

01:03 additional $495. What do you reckon about the design? Let me know in the comments section.

01:08 I think it's pretty striking. It doesn't look generic and, I don't know, I don't want this

01:12 to sound offensive, but it doesn't really look like a Chinese car. It looks like a mainstream

01:16 European or Japanese vehicle. So you've got this sort of brushed chrome look up the front

01:20 there, the Haval badge. You have a camera there for the 360 camera. You have a number

01:25 plate that's on, a little bit wonky. Black garnish down the bottom. And then you've got

01:29 these headlights, full LED headlights with LED daytime running lights. These actually

01:33 give you a decent amount of vision at night time. It's a good setup. LED vision on the

01:37 side there, just in case you've forgotten. Over on the side here, you have a set of 18-inch

01:41 alloy wheels. So it's got that sort of shadow chrome look on the outside with piano black

01:46 on the inside. Decent looking alloy wheel and good profile on the rubber as well, which

01:50 means this should ride nicely when we go out for a drive later on. You've got an indicator

01:55 built into that wing mirror with a camera for the 360 camera. You've got chrome strips

01:59 along the side of the car and down the bottom as well. Roof rails, privacy glass here on

02:04 the top spec. And then come around to the back. Around the rear, you have more LED and

02:08 another reminder that it is LED. Haval, big letters across the rear there. Jolion over

02:13 to the side and GWM, which stands for Great Wall Motors. So yeah, keen to get your feedback.

02:18 Let me know what you think about the design. Is it a good looking car and would you buy

02:22 one? OK, we are inside the Jolion. Let's start off with the key. Here it is. So you have

02:29 the panic button, lock, boot, unlock. And then on the back you have Haval. It's a proximity

02:35 sensing key, so you just leave that in your pocket. Once you're inside, you've got a stop/start

02:38 button down here. Tell you what, I was pretty surprised when I first sat in this. $30,000.

02:44 You get a pretty schmick looking interior. You get this giant infotainment screen, this

02:49 nice sort of material finish along the top there with what looks like real stitching.

02:53 It really does feel like a premium offering and it certainly feels a whole lot more premium

02:57 than the rest of the cars in this segment. So a big tick there and I think it's nicely

03:01 presented as well with minimal use of piano black, thank goodness. In terms of the materials,

03:06 they're sort of rubberised along the top there. You've got that soft stuff that I just mentioned.

03:09 Then they get a little firmer and scratchier as you move down the cabin. But for the most

03:13 part it looks pretty good. In terms of your touch points, not too bad in the centre there.

03:18 Really nice and soft on the door. How soft are they? Well we've got our durometer, we've

03:21 tested the main surfaces in this cabin. If you want to see how this car compares to others

03:25 that we've tested before, have a look at the link in the description. Now what about build

03:29 quality? This stuff's sort of fairly loose in the centre there, but the rest of it feels

03:37 OK. Have you owned a Havel before? A GWM of some sort? Let me know if it has been reliable

03:44 and built properly in the comments section below. Let's talk infotainment. I guess this

03:49 is the centrepiece of the interior. It is a Whopper 12.3 inch infotainment system. Actually

03:55 looks pretty decent as well, it looks like a high resolution screen. So a big tick there.

03:59 In terms of radio, you have AM and FM radio. There's no digital, which I find strange.

04:05 A lot of the time we review these Chinese cars and they don't have any digital radio,

04:09 so it is really odd that they don't fit that as standard. But you do have smartphone mirroring

04:14 in the form of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. I'll show you what Android Auto looks like.

04:20 Both of those require a cable by the way. Look at that, it is a full screen integration

04:25 and it is nice and sharp, very quick as well. So quite an impressive setup there. And this

04:30 is what Apple CarPlay looks like. Look at that, another full screen integration. That's

04:34 all nice and quick as well. This is a really impressive setup. I haven't seen any other

04:37 cars that have such an impressive visual presence inside the cabin, especially when it comes

04:44 to smartphone mirroring. So I like that they've gone to that little bit of extra effort to

04:48 make this feel like a tech savvy car. And by the way, there's a six speaker sound system.

04:53 How good is it? It's so-so. It's not the world's best sound system and it's not the worst.

04:57 It kind of just does what it says on the box. So keep that in mind if you are buying it.

05:01 Now moving on to the screen ahead of the driver, you have a digital instrument cluster there

05:05 as well. So no analog gauges. It's a nice looking setup. It can be a little bit confusing

05:09 because there's a fair bit going on there, but you can transition between the screens

05:14 and go to different sort of displays in the centre there. And that also shows you your

05:18 safety systems as well. There is a lot of them. They beep a lot at you as well. So thankfully

05:24 you can change a lot of those settings here to remove some of the beeps that are constantly

05:27 hounding you. But yeah, it can be a little overwhelming at times.

05:31 Moving on to safety, you have autonomous emergency braking with pedestrian and cyclist

05:35 detection. You have an auto-dibbing rear vision mirror. You have a lane departure warning

05:40 and a lane keeping assistant. You have radar cruise control. You also have a blind spot

05:45 monitor built into the wing mirror just there. This thing over here, it's a driver attention

05:49 alert. So it'll be able to detect if you're feeling drowsy or you're not concentrating

05:54 and it'll give you a warning. So pretty clever setup just there.

05:58 Now in terms of parking, you have front and rear parking sensors and a 360 camera. I'll

06:03 show you what that looks like. It is a pretty cool setup. So decent resolution on that.

06:08 I can clearly make out what's going on around the car. You have a top down view. What you

06:12 can also do is go straight to that view if you need to, but you can also select different

06:17 angles. So you get kind of a 3D view of the car there. Pretty impressive in this price

06:23 bracket if you ask me.

06:24 So practicality, and we'll start with connectivity. Down here, you've got two USB ports. You've

06:29 got a 12 volt outlet. You have a wireless phone charger, so you can just whack your

06:33 phone onto there. Or alternatively, your phone can sit in a number of other places. There's

06:37 all these sort of random little storage nooks for things and pens and stuff. You've got

06:41 two cup holders under here. Let's have a look at how it goes with our coffee cup. Look at

06:45 that. There's actually a specific design for our tiny little coffee cup just there. So

06:51 that's pretty impressive. And then you have a bigger one off to the side with rubber teeth.

06:55 That means you can fit your water bottle into the bigger one without any dramas. Your bottle

06:59 also fits inside the door. Let's see if we can fit our large water bottle as well. There

07:04 you go. That fits too. So pretty decent amount of storage. Then you have a deep center console.

07:11 You have a glove box there that's reasonably sized. More storage down the bottom here.

07:16 And finally, a sunglasses holder.

07:19 OK, what about comfort? You'll notice here there's no sort of climate controls. You have

07:24 to do them all on the screen, which is OK, but it can be a little bit annoying because

07:28 you know, accessing it, you've got to find this spot, then you come to this screen, and

07:33 then you're going to go up and down and do all that sort of stuff. A little bit clumsy

07:37 while you're driving, so not the best layout in the world. But this is where you'll find

07:40 your dual zone automatic climate control.

07:43 Now, heated seats. There are heated seats for the front row as well, but as far as I

07:46 can tell, the only way to activate them is to go through the menus to seating, and then

07:53 switching it on through there. There's no sort of shortcut buttons anywhere else, and

07:57 it's not in the climate menu either. So, strange setup if you ask me.

08:01 Now, what about the seats themselves? The design is interesting because you've got Havel

08:05 imprinted on them. They've got this cool sort of cutout section. They are quite comfortable,

08:09 so they hug you in nicely. They have electric adjustment, so you can go forwards and backwards.

08:14 The back can go forwards and backwards, and then you can also lift the base of the seat.

08:18 I do find, though, that I can't really find a comfortable position. I'd love to be able

08:22 to lift the front of the base, but that doesn't work. And the same follows through the steering

08:28 wheel, where you only have tilt adjustment. There's no reach adjustment, which I think

08:33 is absolutely crazy, because the steering wheel sits quite away from you.

08:38 What about our reach test? All of that is pretty straightforward to reach while you're

08:43 driving.

08:44 Now, to wrap it up, I've got loads of room here. Like, I've got my seat pretty far back,

08:49 and stacks of knee room, lots of toe room, and head room is pretty good as well. Got

08:55 a nice-looking panoramic sunroof there, which looks fantastic. You've got a centre armrest

09:00 here with two cup holders. I'll show you how that works. So, you've got gripped tabs on

09:04 there. I'll whack that out of the way. And then you can also put your bottle inside the

09:07 door as well, should you please. You've got map pockets in the back of the seats, two

09:12 USB outlets. You've got air vents, and also a storage nook down the bottom. You also have

09:17 ISOFIX points on the two outboard seats. Pretty nice place to be seated back here, and a lot

09:24 of room, which is pretty surprising.

09:25 What about your cargo space? Let's have a look. You have a little over 400 litres of

09:31 cargo space available just here in standard form. Beneath the cargo floor, you have a

09:35 SpaceSaver spare tyre, and then you have storage off to the sides. You can expand the space,

09:40 so I'll show you how that works in a moment. That goes in without any dramas. Yeah, that'll

09:48 fit in long ways, or you can just turn it if you want to. It's not a problem. I'll show

09:53 you how to expand it. So, we'll get rid of our cargo blind first. Lift that out of the

09:58 way. So, what you can do is drop the second row from here, and when you do that, the space

10:06 expands to a little over 1,100 litres.

10:11 We've hit the road in the Jolion. So, powering this is an interesting engine. So, one and

10:16 a half litre, four-cylinder turbocharged petrol engine makes 110 kilowatts of power and 220

10:24 newton metres of torque. Really not a great deal, but when you think about it, it actually

10:28 doesn't weigh that much. It's around that 1,400 kilo mark, and that means that you don't

10:32 need a huge, giant engine under the bonnet there, sort of powering everything. And that's

10:36 all mated to a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission. Now, you know my feeling on dual-clutches.

10:43 Let's just see what it's like here when we come to a stop and go from a standing start.

10:49 I'll just give this a little... Yeah, look, it's not amazing. So, when you breathe on

10:55 it, it slips a bit and then it gives you that sort of full force. It's not really smooth.

11:02 Yeah, look, it's not the most amazing dual-clutch in the world, but it's probably not going

11:07 to drive you too mad. We do have a slight hill section that I'll get to a little later

11:11 on and we'll test it there in terms of reversing, just to see what it's like, because that's

11:14 normally where you can catch out these dual-clutches in terms of the way that they work.

11:18 How punchy is it? Well, let's give it a little stab here. Yeah, it's not very punchy at all.

11:25 Yeah, look, it's not going to win any performance awards, but I think it's okay for what it

11:32 is. If you think of the demographic of this car, perhaps there are people that aren't

11:36 too interested in cars and they think if they want something more powerful, they'll probably

11:39 go elsewhere. For the person that's buying this to drive in and around the city, it's

11:42 probably going to fit the bill just fine.

11:43 Now, what about fuel economy? So, Havell claims 8.1 litres per 100 kilometres on a combined

11:49 cycle. We are currently averaging, let's have a quick look here, 9.3. So, near enough to

11:56 that figure. We've been doing a little bit of highway driving as well, so it is a little

11:59 bit lower than what it's likely to be in the long term, especially if you are driving in

12:03 and around the city. Now, I mentioned earlier, we've got a little hill section here for me

12:07 to test this dual-clutch gearbox. So, what I'm going to do is point it down the hill.

12:12 We're going to simulate reversing up a hill just to see how this goes. It's actually really

12:21 good. They can be quite jerky when they do this if they're not calibrated properly. So,

12:28 yeah, pretty impressive there in terms of your low speed manoeuvres. It will be a little

12:31 jerky as you go off the line, but if you need to reverse up a hill or drive up a hill from

12:35 stationary, it's not going to drive you bonkers.

12:37 Havell doesn't have an official 0-100 time for the Jolyon, but we've put it up against

12:41 our stopwatch and this is how it went.

12:43 Now, what about the ride? So, we've got our choppy section coming up here. The ride is

13:00 actually pretty impressive. I was expecting it to be far worse than it is. It is on the

13:04 softer side, so what you'll find is that on those continuous undulations and the choppier

13:09 parts it can kind of dive down and bounce up again. But if you're driving this in and

13:14 around the city, things like cobblestones, potholes, speed humps, it handles them really

13:19 nicely and it's surprising they've been able to engineer this so well. It feels like more

13:23 of a premium SUV than just something they've cobbled together.

13:27 Now, let's talk handling. We'll switch over to manual mode. Got a couple of corners coming

13:32 up. We'll tip it into here. It's actually not terrible. It's not going to win any performance

13:38 awards but it kind of sits flat enough through corners. There's enough sort of confidence

13:42 in the engine. It can get a little thrashy at that top end, but if you stay stuck into

13:47 it, it kind of just does the job. It's surprising how much pace you can actually build up here.

13:53 Everything is unsurprising as well, so it's never going to get to the point where mid-corner

13:57 it's going to unsettle itself and all of this is kind of pointless for an SUV. I think that

14:02 if you were to find a mountain pass though, you have confidence in knowing that it can

14:06 be nice and fun to drive, especially as a front-wheel drive car.

14:09 What's visibility like? Well, look out the front there, it's no drivers at all. Down

14:12 the side, it's great. They're pretty big wing mirrors. You also have that blind spot monitor

14:17 built into those as well. Visibility out the back though is really, really poor and it's

14:21 an incredibly narrow window, so when you look out the back, you can only just see through

14:26 that parcel and I think that really could be improved simply because it is quite tricky

14:31 to see what's going on behind the car.

14:32 I'm also not a fan of some of these, what I presume are Chinese characters coming up.

14:36 If you're going to localise the car for the Australian market, go to the effort of removing

14:41 that stuff because it can be a little bit confusing. You only know it's a stop sign

14:44 because the stop sign's in front of you, but if it pops up and you don't know Mandarin,

14:48 how are you actually meant to know what that is telling you?

14:51 You're unlikely to be doing it, but just in case you do, you've got 1500kg of braked towing

14:55 capacity.

14:56 Now what about road noise? It's not terrible. If you are on a country road with coarse chip

15:01 surface like this one here, you do get a bit of tyre noise coming into the cabin, but for

15:05 the most part, it is incredibly windy outside at the moment. We're not getting a huge amount

15:08 of wind noise and it's quiet enough in here, it's not going to send you deaf if you go

15:12 for a long distance drive.

15:14 One thing that I am sort of noticing here that's a bit of a recurring thing is this

15:17 steering wheel. It's just too far in for me. I feel uncomfortable in this seating position.

15:22 I'd really like to bring it out a little bit more, so it is a shame that there is no reach

15:26 adjustment on the steering.

15:30 So the Havel Jolion, what do we reckon? I'll tell you what, it surprised me. I didn't think

15:34 it would be as nice as it is to drive. So the engine lacks a little bit of punch, but

15:38 the ride around town is great. There's plenty of features inside the cabin, there is heaps

15:42 of room inside the cabin, and the price is incredibly sharp. So look, don't expect a

15:48 performance car because it definitely isn't that, but it is fairly efficient and punchy

15:52 enough when you need it to be.

15:54 There are some caveats though. There is no crash test just yet, and that concerns me

15:58 a little bit. I generally don't like recommending cars that we don't have a crash test rating

16:02 for, so I wouldn't buy this until it has been crash tested and until we know that it is

16:07 quite a safe car. So keep that in mind. Go test drive it, but hold off buying it until

16:11 there is a crash test rating.

16:13 Outside of that, it really does tick all the boxes, and I've got to be honest, the rest

16:16 of the manufacturers need to be concerned because if they can produce a car like that

16:20 for $30,000 drive away, I guess it shows you how much we're getting led down the garden

16:25 path by some other manufacturers. So, keep that in mind.

16:28 Now, let me know what you think in the comments section below. Have you bought one of these?

16:32 What's it been like? What's the service been like? Is it all good? I'm really keen to get

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