a stylish suv with tons of electronic features, though rubustness of electonics is a question mark !

Look and Style

Definetely a crowd puller with its stylish looks & aerodynamic kontours. I really like the sleekness in the body & design of the body.

Mahindra has added enormous electronic features in the car with GPS, Bluetooth, DVD player, Touch screen, Voice Recognition & what not. Though I have my own doubts with the robustness of these electronic features. Quite often Voice recognition function doesn't work properly. When the complaint wasmade the salesman said Dust must have gathered on the speaker, Pl brin it tomorrow to get it cleaned But the problem still persists. GPS has a big flaw. It doesn't stop mid way, even if you want it to. The only way is to stop the car and start it again and pray to god that it stops. If you want to add a address it is almost impossible. In short it is not user friendly at all. Even Mahindra Supervisors find it difficult to handle.

Comfort

PRO

Very Comfortable seats, including the first & second row. Driver seat is most comfortable & stylish with its 5-6 way seat adjustment movements. Driving comfort is good & it shows in long highway drives. Manuverability, stearing wheel control & leg space is good even for tall people. Last row too has good leg space for kids upto 12 years.

Cons

On bumpy roads get used to of sounds of all kinds. Seats, back mirrors keep giving a irritating sound of not being assembed/tightened properly. Mahindra should look into this problem and arrest this problem on PRIORITY.

Pickup

Excellent pick up. No second thoughts about that. You push the accelerator & you get a feeling of driving a power engine. 2179cc engine gives you a torque of 140 at 3700 RPM.

Mileage

Though Mahindra claims 12 km/litre in city I have never got more than 10km/lit.

Best Features

Needs to improve

1.GPS system

2.Voice Recognition system

3.Screeching sound of Front glass wipers.

4.Sound of loose seats & loose side mirrors.5. Mileage

Overall Experience

Good so far. If the problems mentioned can be taken care it can become excellent.