Anand Mahindra is one of those renowned personalities from the automotive sector of India, who is quite vocal and active on social media platforms, especially Twitter. In the past, we have seen him appreciating honest attempts on people building vehicles from scratch or modifying Mahindra vehicles. In one of his latest tweets, the chairman of Mahindra Group has mentioned a person who has converted a Mahindra tractor into a Mahindra Jeep lookalike.
Now that’s a strange looking beast…But it looks like a loveable character from a Disney animated film! https://t.co/JBR25yeXKD
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) February 22, 2022
The incident is from Jowai, Meghalaya, where a person named Maia Rymbai has tried to modify a Mahindra 275 DI TU tractor to make it look like a four-wheeled Mahindra Jeep from yesteryears. The customized tractor has a closed cabin with a rectangular windscreen and side windows and has a two-door look. It also has a soft top towards the rear, which covers the rear profile of the tractor. The tyres, front end and engine of the tractor are left unchanged, which gives a very unique stance to the vehicle.
Maia Rymbai shared a picture of his mastery on social media platforms, which soon went viral and garnered a lot of responses from the netizens. While some people appreciated the efforts made in the process of modification, some people mocked the appearance of the tractor and termed it as a joke. Some even termed it as ‘The Great Khali’ of Jeeps.
Anand Mahindra talked about it on Twitter
The image soon caught the attention of Anand Mahindra too, who re-shared the picture of the tractor, which was originally shared by the Twitter page of Mahindra Tractors. He shared the image of the tractor and called it a weird beast, which looks like a lovable character from a Disney movie. People re-shared this post by Anand Mahindra and praised him for recognizing the honest attempt of modification without mocking it.
Mahindra is one of the biggest tractor manufacturers in India, and the 275 DU TI is a high-selling and popular tractor model from the Indian vehicle maker. The Mahindra 275 DU TI has a 3-cylinder diesel engine, which is capable of producing a maximum power output of 39 bhp @ 2,100 rpm. It gets a manual gearbox comprising eight forward gears and two different reverse gears. It also has a modern power steering setup for easy drivability.
It is not the first time that Anand Mahindra has appreciated such an attempt of modification. A few weeks ago, he tweeted a video of an Indian blacksmith who created a Mahindra Jeep lookalike ‘jugaad’ made of abandoned auto parts. Mahindra termed it a fine example of a common saying – ‘necessity is the mother of innovation’, and rewarded the blacksmith with a new Mahindra Bolero in exchange for his jugaad.
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