MaXX Factor

“It’s certain that fine women eat A crazy salad with their meat.” W.B. Yeats – A Prayer For My Daughter This time around my “crazy salad” came in the form of a heavy-duty pick-up truck – the Mahindra Bolero MaXX Pik-Up HD. Read that again. As somebody who spends a lot of time behind the wheel, I can say this… when the opportunity to drive something as unconventional as a “loaded” MaXX Pik-Up presented itself, I didn’t waste any time in cranking up the engine and hitting the road.  Having driven a couple of trucks such as Ford’s F-150 and the Isuzu V-Cross D-Max on previous occasions, which veer more towards the “lifestyle” segment, the Mahindra Bolero MaXX Pik-Up HD, I must admit, was a completely different beast altogether, unlike anything that I had driven before. An out and out 2WD workhorse, capable of ferrying across different payloads, and so, even comparing it with the aforementioned trucks wouldn’t be fair play. The 2-tonne MaXX Pik-Up HD (Heavy Duty) VXi that we drove (It comes in two ranges, the City range and the HD range) offered an extraordinarily unique experience, here’s why…  Let me begin by telling you what it looks like