Mahindra TUV300


The Mahindra TUV300 is a sub-compact SUV manufactured by the Indian automaker Mahindra & Mahindra since 2015. The abbreviation TUV stands for Tough Utility Vehicle.

History

The TUV300 was first announced by Mahindra & Mahindra in August 2015, the microsite of the vehicle went live by the same month. The vehicle was officially launched on September 10, 2015 in Madhya Pradesh. The TUV300 is designed by Mahindra's Design Studio in Mumbai, with the product engineering being done at Mahindra Research Valley in Chennai. It is built on the same platform as the Mahindra Scorpio. The TUV300 also employs the same mHawk engine series as the XUV500 and Scorpio but with a smaller engine displacement resulting in a lower engine power and torque.

Variants

The TUV300 is available in a manual transmission and a semi-automatic transmission known as Autoshift. There are in total seven trim levels available. Five trim levels uses the manual transmission, while the last two uses the semi-automatic transmission. The manual transmission models have a power output of whereas the Autoshift models have a power output of. The T10 and T8 models feature a power output of.

TUV300 Plus

In June 20, 2018, the TUV300 Plus was launched. It is an extended variant of the TUV300 with nine seats instead of seven, with the wheelbase stretched to. It is powered by a larger 2.2-litre mHawk engine that produces, 21 PS up on the standard TUV300.