Mahindra’s XUV500 is certainly the flavor in the SUV market. While other manufacturers are struggling to sell their products, the XUV is commanding a large waiting period provided you have made it through the qualifying lucky draw. When I received a call from Mahindra about a track day on the Buddh International Circuit, I was certainly excited, driving on the circuit is a luxury we auto journalists enjoy once in a while. The only thing I was not sure was whether the XUV was the right car to drive on the circuit, but I was wrong. It was a exciting day and this is how it unfolded.
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We are just back after driving the Mahindra XUV500 on the Buddh International Circuit. Now an SUV, which weighs close to 2.5 tonnes on the track might sound ridiculous but Mahindra wants us to think otherwise. We drove the XUV500 on the circuit for a few laps and will be coming up with a report shortly. Meanwhile you can checkout the video below.
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The Mahindra XUV500 has been an instant hit in the Indian market so much so that the company faced severe trouble to keep up to the demand. Practices like lottery draw and things like that had to be done to allot vehicles to the customers. With production capacity expansion taking place, Mahindra is focusing on taking the vehicle beyond India to countries like Italy, Chile and Australia.
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Mahindra is quietly started accepting new bookings for the XUV500. The Indian utility major is taking bookings from unsuccessful draw applicants for the XUV500 and plans to deliver the vehicles in the next lot. The XUV500′s demand far exceed its supply and Mahindra is working hard on delivering the XUV500 to customers as quick as they can. The company has increased production from 2000 units a month to 3000 units a month to ensure quicker deliveries and less waiting period for prospective customers. With the initial enthusiasm around the product gradually declining, has Mahindra made a mistake by not scaling up production faster! [click to continue…]
In recent times, the SUV segment has seen a phenomenal growth in the Indian auto market. With such a huge rise in demand seen, all the car manufacturers didn’t waste any time to bring in their SUV offerings to the Indian market. of the many SUVs launched in India, the 3 main that garnered lot of attention were the Mahindra’s XUV500, Tata Motors’s Safari Storme and Force Motors’s Force One. But which is a better contender of the three. Let us find out with a quick comparo. The Mahindra XUV500 is powered by a 2.2 litre mHawk CRDi engine that produces 140 BHP of power at 3750 RPM and 330Nm of torque at 1600 RPM. [click to continue…]
Mahindra launched the XUV500 with utmost enthusiasm but never did the company predict that the SUV would see such a huge demand. The situation has become so bad that the company had to resort to a lucky draw for the Mahindra XUV500, when the second phase of bookings were opened last month. The initial production was 2000 units per month and is being hiked to 3000 units per month with effect from March 2012. However, this too is not enough considering the high demand of the flagship Mahindra vehicle. [click to continue…]
The results of the Mahindra XUV500 lucky draw are out and 7200 applicants have been allotted the SUV in the second round of bookings, which received more than 25000 applications. Mahindra has chosen the winners based on a lucky draw which was validated by Deloitte. These 7200 lucky winners will get their Mahindra XUV500 in the next four months. The other applicants can either wait for their vehicle post the delivery of this lot, or cancel their bookings. Mahindra took bookings for two-wheel drive variants only and has temporarily made the all-wheel drive variant unavailable. [click to continue…]
The Mahindra XUV500 came, saw and conquered the segment. The company has currently closed bookings of the global model after receiving 25000 bookings in just 10 days. Mahindra recently launched the Xylo facelift, which featured new things not seen in its bigger siblings. Case in point is the all new 5-speed manual gearbox on the mHawk engine. Known as the MT320, the said gearbox will soon be launched in the Scorpio. Another interesting feature to debut is the Voice Command Technology, which is not present in any other Mahindra vehicle. [click to continue…]
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