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This Chinese Pickup Truck Looks Like An Evil Lux Overlander
This Chinese Pickup Truck Looks Like An Evil Lux Overlander-July 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:13:06

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The Great Wall Black Bullet made an appearance at the this week. It looks like a Hot Wheels execution of an overland vehicle with a healthy dash of evil Toyota Tundra. I’m into it!

It’s not actually a corrupted Tundra, of course. It appears to be a Great Wall Pao pickup with a bunch of fun pieces bolted to it. I would put the prospects of this being a production model pretty low, but the designers given permission to cook it up definitely made an off-road caricature sufficiently amusing to earn some airtime here on Jalopnik.

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For all its goofiness, I will say this: The snorkel and light bar actually seem like they were designed with some consideration for aerodynamics, which is unusual. And cool.

The high-contrast quilted interior is kind of fun, too, but would not be very practical in any remotely unsterile environment.

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We also have to talk about this strange floating-body thing over the bed. What exactly is going on here? Some kind of aero treatment? At first I thought it was a tent, but it seems that there’s a spare tire hiding inside it. It’s like some kind of strange tonneau cover and air splitter.

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This has also got me wondering what off-road culture looks like in China. It’s a huge country with a lot of open space; they’ve certainly got the real estate for it.

Cursory research indicates that a 4x4 scene, as we know it, was “nascent” in China circa 2011, according to , so I’d be willing to bet there are plenty of wheelers kicking up dust on the reg out in the People’s Republic.

Meanwhile I guess this Black Bullet gives a glimpse of what China’s truck people are into in 2020. And it pretty much looks like something that could just as easily be on the floor of a U.S. show.

Wait, before you go, look at this last picture of the grille emblem, with a person in the photo for scale. That badge is larger than this woman’s head?

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Anyway, enjoy the rest of your day knowing that big goofy pickup trucks are not exclusively America’s realm.

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