Mahindra XUV500
The Mahindra XUV500 is a compact crossover SUV produced by the Indian automobile manufacturer Mahindra & Mahindra. The XUV500 was designed and developed at Mahindra's design and vehicle build center in Nashik and Chennai and is manufactured in Mahindra's Chakan & Nashik plant, India. During its development, the car was code-named 'W201'. It is the first monocoque chassis-based vehicle the company has produced.
It is succeeded by the XUV700, which was planned to be the second-generation XUV500 during development.
History
Pre facelift (W201) (2011-2015)
The XUV500 was launched in 2 variants in 2011, sharing the same engine: the W6 in two-wheel drive only and the W8 in both two-wheel drive and AWD.The W6 includes a 6-inch monochrome infotainment display, two airbags, ABS with electronic brakeforce distribution, and disc brakes on all alloy wheels.
The W8 can be specified in two or All-wheel drive. The W8 adds GPS navigation, six airbags, a touch screen, electronic stability program with rollover mitigation, Hill Hold and Hill Descent control, alloy wheels, and leather upholstery.
Mahindra later added a W4 base variant and sports edition in 2013.
An Xclusive edition with added features such as sunroof, reverse camera, powered seats, aluminum paddles, and others was introduced in 2014.
First facelift (W207) (2015-2018)
The XUV500 was facelifted in May 2015. After the facelift, the top-end W10 variant was launched with features like a sunroof, start and stop push button. Automatic transmission was announced to be implemented on the W6, W8, W10 and W10 awd and AT variants in November 2015, being available on December 5, 2015. And gasoline variant has a 2.2l turbo I4 with liquid intercooler was launched in 2017. There was also were a sports edition. The vehicle came with a 1.99L diesel engine for the Delhi NCR region.Second facelift (W208) (2018)
On April 18, 2018, another facelifted version of Mahindra XUV500 was released. It was released with a more powerful engine and a horsepower increase of 15 hp to 155 hp.Mahindra also changed the naming system of the variants. There were W3, W5, W7, W9, W11 W11, AWD and AT and G AT variants. Instead of even numbers, Mahindra used odd numbers, to denote the step up from the earlier variants.
In the second facelift, there were minor styling tweaks, and feature updates and got eVGT which bump power from 140 hp to 155 hp and torque from 330NM to 360NM.
Safety
The Mahindra XUV500 earned a solid four-star safety rating in its most basic safety specifications.Exports
Mahindra announced that the SUV would be exported to Australia, Chile, Italy, Nepal, New Zealand, Peru, South Africa, Middle East and Spain as a complete knock-down.In the South African market, sales of the XUV500 exceeded 1,200 units by February 2013.