Petrol Power

The sales of diesel-powered cars are slowing, which means that carmakers don’t have a choice but to introduce petrol variants of models that they hope will be real contenders. Cue the XUV300 petrol…

- Shivank Bhatt

When we drove Mahindra’s new baby, the XUV300, prior to its launch in Goa, we couldn’t stop singing praises of this new sub-4-metre SUV. However, we soon realised that we had only done half the job in the first-drive review. And that’s because, during the media drive, we only got to sample the diesel variant of the vehicle. But, surprisingly, a lot of people have been asking us about its petrol sibling. So, naturally, we rang the folks at Mahindra and got hold of a petrol variant of the XUV300.

What’s under the hood?

Since everything – space, interior and features – is identical to its diesel sibling, which we’ve already covered in great detail (and also elsewhere in this issue), we’re solely going to focus on the petrol powertrain and its driveability here.