Saar: With just one variant on offer, comprising of bare minimum goodies, definitely leads us to believe so.
News about Mahindra testing or delivering units of the TUV300 Plus isn’t new. In fact, test mules were first caught on roads sometime in 2017. Soon afterwards, undisguised pics of the Mahindra TUV300 Plus surfaced with customers supposedly taking delivery. Ever since the extended version of the TUV300 has been up and around, giving us auto journos something or the other to speculate about. This time around, folks from Team-BHP have caught the Mahindra TUV300 Plus flaunting its unrelenting bigness at one of the showrooms. They even managed to procure a snipped of the brochure and it is this that has led us to believe that the whole TUV300 Plus project could be focused primarily to cater the world of cabbing.
Why do we think so? First of all, the whole project has never been the centre point of any discussion, especially from the OEM’s side. It has always been on the hushed side of the room. Secondly, as per the leaked brochure, it will be launching in just one variant – P4. Thirdly, the specs of that variant are rather bare in nature. It pains to say but the most groundbreaking feature that the Mahindra TUV300 Plus has to offer is the micro-hybrid technology. That has been on offer with the Mahindra Scorpio for years.
Speaking of which, the Mahindra TUV300 Plus gets the same 2.2-litre D120 mHAWK engine from the lesser variants of the Scorpio. Power figures are identical too – 120PS/280Nm. With the Mahindra TUV300 Plus, only the 6-speed manual transmission will be on offer. That, by the way, is another hint on why we think it will be driven by cabbies more. Additionally, the P4 variant comes with a 9-seater layout. Personal vehicles, normally, top out at 7 or at max 8 seats for the living things. But 9? That just makes our speculation a bit more robust.
If reports are to be believed, the P4 variant of the Mahindra TUV300 Plus, whenever it launches, will cost around the Rs 10 lakh mark. Sure, it has more power on tap than the standard TUV300 but with those bare minimum features on offer, that price is a bit too dear in our books. What do you think?
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