ONE LIFE TO WIN

An adventurous, unscripted day out with the Mahindra Thar Roxx, as you do

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Sheena Sabharwal was born for adventures. A dynamic young architect who builds extravagant homes for those with an appetite for elegance, Sheena knows a thing or two about being in charge. Unsurprisingly, quite a few of her weekends are reserved for her other passion - off-road rallies! Among a long list of her exploits is entering her brand-new, bone-stock Thar into one of India's most infamously challenging TSD rallies. And emerging intact!

When the Thar Roxx came around, she obviously didn't want to wait around too much to push it to its limit off the road. So much, in fact, that when the Roxx arrived at Pro Dirt Adventure, on the outskirts of Pune, she set off around the technical and hugely fun track way before the rest of us had gotten there! 'Wait? With the Roxx and a track around? No way!' she chuckled, by the way of a morning greeting.

Fortunately, she was happy to do many more laps around the roller-coaster track, this time with the rest of us in tow. A lap later, her driving prowess made itself amply clear; she was making all of this hugely technical off-road driving look a bit too easy. 'It's not me, it's the Roxx,' she said. 'It's so capable, and just such a natural off-roader by DNA. And all of that power and torque - it does have a lot of it - makes it so confident and effortless!'

Well, she did make quite a significant point very early on. The Thar Roxx is, after all, a structurally rock-solid SUV, one that is very robustly engineered. That shouldn't come as a surprise to you because Mahindra has a legacy of making capable vehicles like this for decades now - it's a long list of illustrious nameplates, won't you agree? Yet, somehow, as menacing as it looks on the outside, it's all very calm and premium and comfortable on the inside.