Our passionate reader from Coimbatore, Mr K Balaji, mailed pictures of the mini Xylo he captured while traveling from Ooty to Coimbatore. Mahindra has used the hills of Ooty to test components and systems for high altitude behavior.
Camouflaged Genios were tested in the same location about two years ago.
The mini Xylo version Balaji has captured is the model with the Xylo facelift’s front-end. The mini Xylo is codenamed U203 (also mentioned on the notice stuck on the car’s windshield).
There’s a new Mahindra mini Xylo doing the rounds in Chennai and we have a couple of pictures captured by our From-Day-1 reader Ben. He snagged the mule while riding back home yesterday on the road connecting the airport to the city.
Mahindra may have incorporated more changes to its skin and understandably doesn’t want the finer details to be revealed by IndianAutosBlog.com’s readers who have spied this car regularly since July 2010.
Another IAB scoop provides insights into the upcoming Mahindra Mini-Xylo, which is production ready. A test mule was spotted in Chennai giving us a clear view of what the final production car will look like. It better have good brakes and ABS as the cow resting under the tree (to the car’s left) may decide to cross the road for no tangible reason.
Mahindra’s been testing the car since mid-2010 and to make it a niggle-free product, the team behind this model has worked very hard. In a price sensitive country like India the under-four-meters length will give the mini-Xylo a cost advantage over the EcoSport and Duster.
A war is upon us. A war of two international automotive giants competing for supremacy in the compact SUV segment. Ford is readying the EcoSport for India and Renault is pumping up the Duster. Both very competent products, both ready to fire their engines to woo the Indian consumer.
Brilliant designs, oodles of street presence and extremely fuel efficient engines. What could the Indian consumer ask for? However, price will determine their fate. If both companies do not manage a sub 10 lakhs pricing, a death knell will ring on the compact SUV segment before it even took off!
Our good friends at Motor Vikatan have received a spyshot of the five-seat mini Xylo from one of their readers. Before you think this post is for the less-informed reader, look closely and you’ll find something interesting – the front-end is from the updated Xylo.
The acrylic vertical slabs that form the grille and bumper are direct carryovers from the facelifted Xylo’s parts store room. This spyshot clarifies doubts posed on the design option Mahindra will take with the compact Xylo. Some believed the older design would live on in the mini Xylo which is codenamed U203.
M&M has a knack of knowing when to bring the replacement models in the market is such a manner that maximum is obtained from the outgoing model and minimum cannibalization happens within the existing portfolio.
Toyota Kirloskar Motor just gave the Innova a comprehensive revamp and immediately it caught the market’s fancy. The most successful challenger to the Innova – the Xylo was in dire need of change and so it gets one. But what has changed?
Although the entire model lineup has been changed, but the most number of changes are done to a new top variant – E9.
Our passionate reader from Coimbatore, Mr K Balaji, mailed pictures of the mini Xylo he captured while traveling from Ooty to Coimbatore. Mahindra has used the hills of Ooty to test components and systems for high altitude behavior.
