Hi guys, finally some local life from owners on this car. Over at GWM official FB page, no freedom of speech. I'm also waiting for my car which is Comfort Manual model. Suppose to come this month but sales person can't commit on delivery date. Since they have already delivered the 1st batch cbu cars to owners, hope mine will be the new facelift version. GWM already made clear facelift AMT version will be delivered in Jan 2015 but no comment on manual version.

From my test drive of this car and also reported by journalist in South Africa, the key weakness of this car is the steering straight line & poor self centering. I initially though the test car was out of alignment but now its clear that its not wheel alignment. When I get the car, I hope to have the wheel caster adjusted to create a more weighted self centering. So far report on engine durability has been good.

Just sharing this info for the benefit of owners on Haval M4 tire 205/60-16
Below is the estimated price which I collected from various car forums:
Brand / Price RM / Shop
Goodyear Assurance Triplemax / 320/ RSP
Goodyear Eagle Efficient Grip / 390 / ED Tyre, Shah Alam
Michelin Energy XM2 / 420/ 3S Specialists Ara Damansara
Michelin Primacy 3 ST / 504 / 3S Specialists Ara Damansara
Continental CC5 / 300 / QS Tyres & Auto Service, Klang
Bridgestone GR80 / 400 / Klang
Falken Azenis ST115 / 410 / Eunos, 1Utama
Falken ZE912 / ? / ?
Toyo NanoEnergy 3 / ? / ?
Yokohama C Drive 2 / 350 / Tee 3 Auto & Tyre Service Sdn Bhd

Although car is reasonably priced similar to P1 & P2, the cost of tire is so much higher.

This post has been edited by hart932: Nov 11 2014, 04:22 PM

Pictures of the Haval M4 AMT at Matrade
http://1drv.ms/1tPmwXE

Added VSC control unit by Bosch & AMT pump control behind gearbox. Steering is similar to manual cbu unit.
The show AMT car is Premium spec with leather seats, black sport rims with 215/55-17 tires. Front & Reverse camera locations on the bumper & 7" lcd screen showing all round visual display.

With 16in rims, 0-100kmh pick up is like 13+ sec. With 17" rim probably + another 3 sec. Look nice but no oomp... Go up hill sure suffer.

Btw anybody interested to buy my original tires? I plan to change the minute I get the car from showroom. I'll be changing to Michellin Energy to improve rolling resistant & FC. Can email me hart932@yahoo.com if interested.

I've seen this M4 in China Auto show sometime back & just knew I had to get it. Prior to this, I had sat in one during my trip in Shenzhen last year. Owner feedback was good on the car. Of cause that's the manual. AMT reliability, I don't know. However local GWM grossly lack proper training, poor communication between sales & manufacturing/assembly depts. Customer relationship suffer as a result as nobody seems to know anything. The recent Matrade exhibition actually caused more confusion than without. What was displayed may or may not be what buyers are getting. No one seems to be able to provide a firm answer.

Bro, the pics that we took was from Matrade. The orange color car is the AMT (auto). The red one next to it is the manual.

Gotta check with the HQ in glenmarie for test drive of the AMT. Me too want to test it if its available....😁

Woow...one owner cancel booking in Aug & still haven't get back his money. This is bad.

This is the last week of Nov. Hope the 2nd batch of CBU M4 gets delivered this week. Keeping my fingers cross here.

Possible GWM can't get AP for the 2nd batch CBU after MITI minister reviewed the car & found it to be too good specs for the price?

If so then GWM is only to be blamed for misleading the minister with a souped up High spec version of the car.

Ya...we're dealing with the worst new car dealership in the country. They kill the brand even before it takes off the ground. The CEO some more can declare challenging to bring in this brand as if he was force to sell the brand.

The local GWM took a gamble to market their cars over social media. As everybody know, such a medium can work both ways. I wont be surprise if anti GWM FB pages start popping up by unsatisfied owners & would be owners over the delivery delay of their cars.

The 2nd batch of Manual cars have arrived. Got call from Glenmarie for me to pay for the registration.

If I'm not mistaken, booking $500 only means you will only get car when there is surplus unsold cars. Usually, you don't get to choose the colour & just have to take whatever colour is available. The refund is also easier since they didn't commit to import in the car specially for you. The booking fee for confirm car is $1000. Means they have to deliver yr choice of car color to you.

Happen to peep an unofficial list, HQ glenmarie only have about 10 MT cars from this 2nd CBU batch. However, spotted one of the buyer is PROTON ! So they gonna strip it up & do reverse engineering..ha..ha.. Or maybe crash it to prove poor build compared to iriz? Anyway....looking fwd to my car now.

BTW....Max don't recall seeing yr name on the list. So that's why salesman say cant confirm yr booking.

Beats the hell out of me why these dealers create this double standard booking fee & upset buyers for no reason. Even if you put 100 bucks deposit, a buyer will assume booking done. For potential buyers, beware of bad salesman & low deposit booking fee.

Likely next week since bank will take awhile to release payment & at lease 2 days for my cheque to clear..

Don't understand the reason for accepting customer deposit & with no manual car to deliver. Technically it is a breech of sales contract unless there are plans for CKD manual versions next year. Based on latest sales price list, the manual is still listed. But comments from SA is only AMT versions will be available. Unless SA is mis-informed & company still plan to produce ckd manual cars. If they do, then likely will be much later in 2015 since the demand for AMT is much higher & they would have to fulfill the back orders first. It will be a very long wait for manual in this case.