Nice. Review on Mahindra TUV300

The TUV300 is an absolute U-Turn over Mahindra’s usual over the top designs and that is a good thing. Now where some people might not agree with me, the Mahindra TUV300 is one of the better looking cars to have come out of the Mahindra stable in the last few years simply as it is not overly designed and showered with trinketry like the Scorpio or XUV are. In fact, with its squared out design, muscular haunches and pronounced wheel arches the TUV300 is just right when it comes to a car trying to flex its muscles.

The front of course is dominated by a large and in your face multi slat grille that is typically Mahidnra and a set of simple yet well designed headlamps units that go well with the overall design. The rectangular fog lamps too are a welcome addition and tie up the whole ‘macho and manly’ look of the TUV300 really well. The same understated and well designed language continues around the rear too with all the focus going to the large tailgate mounted spare wheel. The vertically stacked tail lamps and the rear bumper are well styled but the rear step sticks out like a sore thumb and should be immediately eliminated.

When viewed from the side the TUV300 continues with the whole straight lines and sharp angles design. The D pillar is blacked out to give the TUV300 an almost floating roof feel. The C-pillar though continues to be in the same body color and breaks the large glasshouse lines really well. We do like the way the wheels have been designed on the TUV but hate the fact that they are puny. The TUV300 we think would look much much better with a set of 17-inch wheels and tyres from the Scorpio or the XUV500. All said and done, we did speak to a lot of people who though the TUV300 looked quite ungainly, but then we guess design preferences change from individual to individual.