I appreciate the huge improvement in the XUV700’s handling & suspension over my previous car – the XUV500. This is another job well done, Mahindra!
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It’s been a week now that the car is home and unfortunately no long drives have happened so far. Owing to some health challenges in the family, seems like this weekend too shall pass without much action.
To fulfil the itch of driving the car, me and my daughter went out this morning to our favourite hillock off Ragihallii forest, close to our home. This video has a compilation of our morning time.
The more I spend time with this car, it continues to give me the feeling of being a worthy substitute for Orange Cheetah!
We briefly used AWD, fantastic power delivery to rear wheels when I needed them. This location is doable with FWD too but needs a lot of power and momentum to climb up on the gravel as well as the rocky terrain you see in the video. The Sabertooth, on the other hand, did not need any momentum – just business as usual driving. Extremely comfortable with SVS cameras helping steer the car properly and literally not required to anything else!
The roads were horrible, bumpy, gravel-filled, dusty. And at some flat stretches, we went with about 35-40kmph speed. We did not hear any thuds, any issues with suspension. The feeling inside the cabin is super silent. Loved the overall feeling of sitting inside and exploring in peace! Only when I took the bad roads today, I could appreciate the huge improvement in handling and suspension over orange cheetah – this is another job well done Mahindra!
The car was driven in Zap mode only today with certain stretches forced on AWD lock. The speeds while on AWD locks were crawling kind – less than 10 kmph, gentle movement without any accelerator input. Note that the current tires are not A/T and they were grippy on the rock!
Leaving you with some pictures from the drive:
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