With festive season approaching, carmakers are trying their level best to cash it in with limited or special editions, new cars and facelifts. Now, the home grown automajor and King of UVs Mahindra jump into the pool with new dual tone version of its compact SUV TUV300. The new variant is based on T8 trim and customers who would want to have this variant will to shed Rs. 15,000 over the T8 variant i.e. Rs. 9.15 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi).
Coming to the new color, it is a combination of black roof top and silver color, side pillar and dual tone front and rear bumpers. There is black or white roof top option also available via Mahindra Genuine accessories. Besides new color, TUV 300 is available in seven paint schemes which are bronze green, dynamo red, bold black, majestic silver, verve blue, glacier white, molten orange.
The battle tank inspired SUV is available with two engines- mHawk 80 and mHawk 100. The mHawk 80 is further available in two states of tunes-84bhp for the manual and 81bhp for the AMT variant. Whereas the mHawk 100 diesel engine develops 100bhp power and 240Nm of peak torque which can be had in either 5-speed manual or 5-speed AMT gearbox.
Announcing the launch of this new dual tone TUV300, Mr. Vivek Nayer, Chief Marketing Officer, Automotive Division, Mahindra and Mahindra, said, “The launch of the new silver & black dual tone TUV300 will build on its aspiration quotient by dialing up on style and exclusivity, and thus further enhance the brand’s appeal. We are confident that this new color scheme will soon become very popular among our discerning customers and fans.”