Mahindra TUV300

The Mahindra TUV300 is a sub-compact SUV manufactured by the Indian automaker Mahindra & Mahindra since 2015.

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 BS4 is available in manual transmission and an automated manual transmission (AMT) known as Autoshift. There are in total seven trim levels available. Five trim levels use a manual transmission, while the last two uses an automated manual transmission. The manual transmission models have a power output of 85 PS whereas the Autoshift models have a power output of 82 PS. The T10 and T8 models feature a power output of 101 PS.

TUV300 Plus
On 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 4,440 mm. It is powered by a larger 2.2-litre mHawk engine that produces 122 PS, 21 PS up on the standard TUV300.