Great Wall Motor opened pre-sales for the Haval Menglong Plus on April 18, adding a larger, longer-range plug-in hybrid to the Menglong lineup with prices starting at 189,800 yuan (27,800 US dollars). The Plus trim keeps the original Menglong's boxy off-road silhouette and adds roof-mounted LiDAR, a 255-kilometer EV range option, and a third-row seat package. It lands in a PHEV SUV segment where Chinese brands are starting to pack flagship features into price points that would have been trim-mid three years ago.
The three published variants run 189,800 yuan for the 195 Max, 199,800 yuan for the 195 Max Navigator Edition, and 215,800 yuan ($31,600) for the 255 Ultra Navigator Edition. The "195" and "255" refer to CLTC EV range in kilometers. The Navigator badge adds the LiDAR and the driver-assistance software that comes with it.
GWM Hi4 Powertrain, 330 kW, 5.8 Seconds
The Menglong Plus uses Great Wall's Hi4 architecture: a 1.5-liter turbocharged gasoline engine paired with dual electric motors. Combined output is 330 kW with 660 Nm of torque. 0 to 100 km/h is quoted at 5.8 seconds, which for a ladder-frame-adjacent boxy SUV in the 27,000-dollar bracket is the kind of number that gets attention.
Battery options range from 23.7 kWh to 44.7 kWh depending on trim, and the top version advertises a total WLTC range above 1,000 km with a full tank. Electric consumption comes in at 21.4 kWh per 100 km, which is unremarkable on a shape this upright but lines up with what the Hi4 architecture typically delivers in real-world testing.
Off-Road Hardware Is Actually There
The Menglong Plus keeps 221 mm of ground clearance and a 580 mm wading depth, and the Navigator trims include rear differential locks and a dedicated off-road tracking mode. The 2,850 mm wheelbase and 4,912 mm length push the Plus up a half-size from the standard Menglong, adding room for an optional third row that most boxy PHEV SUVs in this price bracket skip entirely.
Off-road content at this level usually signals a brand hedging on what buyers will actually do with the vehicle. GWM has been clearer than most about the answer: the Menglong lineup has become a surprise volume story in the 2026 Chinese PHEV SUV segment, and the Plus is positioned to keep it there.
LiDAR on the Roof at 29,200 Dollars
The Navigator Edition trims mount a LiDAR unit on the roof and run GWM's highway-plus-urban driver assistance stack. LiDAR on a Chinese PHEV at under 30,000 dollars would have been impossible in 2023. It is now close to unremarkable, which says more about the 2026 Chinese component supply chain than it does about GWM specifically.
A digital instrument cluster, head-up display, and panoramic roof are standard. GWM did not publish a delivery date at the pre-sale announcement, which is the usual signal that retail launch follows the Beijing Auto Show. The show opens to press on April 24, with public days running through May 3. First customer cars on the Menglong Plus should hit showrooms within four weeks of that window.