Track-day with Mahindra XUV700
What better way to start India's 75th Independence Day celebrations than by driving from MRV (Mahindra Research Valley) to MSPT (Mahindra SUV Proving Track), Chennai, in one of India's most awaited SUV- the Mahindra XUV700?
18/08/2021
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A visit to MRV (Mahindra Research Valley) and to the brand new MSPT (Mahindra SUV Proving Track), in Tamil Nadu’s Kanchipuram district, is enough to give you a glimpse into the future of all things Automotive at Mahindra. While MRV (125 acres inside Mahindra City) has been built with an investment of INR 6.5 billion and has around 3,500 engineers working tirelessly on R&D in 32 laboratories, developing new vehicles for the Mahindra Group, the newly inaugurated MSPT (Mahindra SUV Proving Track), built over 454 acres of land by L&T and designed by IDIADA, (Institut d’Investigació Aplicada de l’Automòbil – Institute for Applied Automotive Research), with its state-of-the-art facilities, happens to be the largest track owned by any OEM in India. We, recently, spent an entire day on the track there with their latest offering, the Mahindra XUV700, and boy, was it fun! We began our day by driving the XUV700 Diesel, Manual Transmission (MT) AX7 T variant. We also got our hands on the Petrol, MT, later in the day. (More on that later). Though the 55 km drive from MRV to MSPT didn’t really give us sufficient time to completely figure out everything in terms of the tech onboard
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