This might sound a bit strange to you guys since I am writing about them, but to tell you the truth I don’t really get the point of SUVs. I mean, I know they were built to win the war and stuff but hey, if I ever went into battle I would arm myself with an SU-30. If I wanted to climb mountains, I would hop on to a KTM. If SUVs were to go around corners, they would drop off the road and don’t even get me started with the ‘not well-endowed’ image that they are associated with. The only use that I see for them is for a bit of evening showboating – for which you need something like one of these Mahindras.
Now, we’ve been wanting to drive them since we saw them at the Auto Expo and once these cars were back in Mumbai, the entire BSM gang came along for the story. So while Josh promptly plonked himself in the Inspira, Shumi opted for the Passion while I went Commando. Er... I mean, I drove the Commando, sorry about that.
Anyway, the Commando is a shorter Bolero with a rather cool mini loading bay instead of the last row of seats. Now, the Commando costs Rs 2.5 lakh in addition to the cost of the Bolero and includes all the extras that you can see in the pictures and some that you can’t, like the chromed suspension bits. My favourite detail, however, was the row of parking lamps above the windscreen. And since they are below the roof line, they are perfectly legal. Nice loophole, Mahindra.
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