- Doors and Seats
5 doors, 5 seats
- Engine
2.0T, 4 cyl.
- Engine Power
145kW, 315Nm
- Fuel
Petrol (95) 9.8L/100KM
- Manufacturer
FWD
- Transmission
Auto (DCT)
- Warranty
7 Yr, Unltd KMs
- Ancap Safety
NA
2019 Haval H6 Lux: owner review
I picked up the Haval H6 on Christmas Eve, and fitted a Hayman Reese towbar for carrying lots of bikes.
Owner: Heath
- Ease of driving
- Quiet and soft
- Inability to customise some driver assist controls
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I picked up the Haval H6 on Christmas Eve, and fitted a Hayman Reese towbar for carrying lots of bikes. During the install I was pretty impressed with the construction of the car – bumper fittings, support brackets etc. They were solid and better than other cars I have worked on
Just after New Year's Eve, we started doing a lot of interstate trips – Canberra, Ballarat, Sydney, Warrnambool, and Bright. The car was rock solid on the highways and on back country roads. It has been fully loaded with four blokes, four bikes and all the gear we could jam in. It handled the Victorian high country terrain fine, and the good, torquey motor still got 10 litres per 100 kilometres on that trip. We have an Audi A5, and it is a great tourer with a plush ride, and is quiet. We used to wonder whether we'd prefer taking the A5 over our Mitsubishi Outlander, but now we don’t fuss and take the H6, because it's easier to take more gear with us and we still get out of the car fresh.
Day to day driving on the daily work commute is fine. The steering was a little weird (which was mentioned in other reviews), but it turned out that the steering clamp just needed extra turn on the bolt and now its solid and feels fine. I have done a lot of box trailer reversing with a landscape job, and found the camera and clutch are great for that (I have to learn to trust the camera more rather than mirrors – I’m just old school).
The seats are great. I hear no complaints from people in the back on the long trips – heaters all round have been handy (all the wet, cold bikers in the cabin warm up and not just the driver). The cruise control is annoying in that it sounds the audio tone every time you adjust it. It would be nice if you could program the driver assist (side alarms, proximity / parking sensors) to stay on or off. It has a default and you need to remember to turn things to how you prefer every time you start car.
But that is a very minor quibble. The air con works great, and same with the dual climate. The stereo is a cracker, letting you Bluetooth the phone and crank it. At work we have a lot of different fleet cars in the same category as the H6 (Subaru, Mazda, Toyota), and behind the wheel I can’t say the H6 is better or worse overall, but at the price it smokes everything.
I've clocked up 10,000km in four months before COVID hit, and the only issue was the steering bolt. Otherwise there hasn't been a squeak anywhere.
Owner: Heath
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