2025 GWM Tank 500 gets fresh face following software, suspension upgrades

2025 GWM Tank 500 gets fresh face following software, suspension upgrades

2025 GWM Tank 500 gets fresh face following software, suspension upgrades

Here’s one for the carspotters – the GWM Tank 500 now has a new grille.

The large off-road SUV now wears a “redesigned front sports grille” borrowed from the Chinese-market Tank 500 Hi4-T plug-in hybrid (PHEV), with fewer (but chunkier) horizontal slats.

The visually updated but still chrome-heavy Toyota Prado rival entered production in April 2025, and the change in front-end styling doesn’t affect the SUV’s ANCAP rating.

In fairness to GWM Australia, it’s done more than simply change out the grille since launching the Tank 500 here in March 2024.

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The Tank 500 received recalibrated software in December 2024, including for active safety and driver assist systems such as the adaptive cruise control and emergency lane-keep assist.

Other software changes were made to improve throttle response, as well as transitions between petrol and electric power.

These changes were made available to existing Tank 500 owners.

A revised suspension tune was quietly introduced in vehicles that arrived from late in the third quarter of 2024, with a move from Chinese to Thai market suspension tune aimed at improving its dynamics and composure on the road.

The Tank 500 hybrid now looks more like its Chinese-market Hi-4T sibling, and GWM has already confirmed a PHEV option is coming to the local lineup during the third quarter (July to September) of 2025.