NOVEMBER SEES THE launch of the Mahindra Pik-Up in Western Australia, as dealerships in Rockingham, Melville, Bunbury and Geraldton open this month.

Mahindra Australia CEO Claire Tynan pointed to the Pik-Up’s OH&S compliance and Australian components as appealing factors for local buyers.

“Our latest Mahindra Pik-Up model is specifically OH&S compliant with added safety features such as [...]

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FOLLOWING A SAFETY and styling overhaul earlier this year, Mahindra is dipping its toes into television advertising, unveiling its first TV commercial since the Pik-Up was launched in Australia in 2007.

With the slogan, “Made for the hardest places on Earth”, the commercial shows the Pik-Up in some of the planet’s toughest and most unforgiving environments.

This [...]

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INDIAN AUTOMAKER Mahindra has given its sole Australian-delivered model line a comprehensive revamp for 2009, adding new exterior styling, a more comfortable interior and a higher level of standard safety kit.

The cosmetic changes are limited to a new front bumper design, “sportier” headlight and foglamp housings, a bonnet scoop and pull-type door handles.

Inside, there are [...]

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When your plumber turns up in a brand-spankers Maloo, are you alone in feeling that getting the toilet fixed is about to cost you  a little more than it should?

According to a recent survey conducted by Mahindra Automotive Australia (MAA), distributors of the Mahindra Pik-Up utility vehicle, your suspicious assumptions are in fact shared by [...]

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We said back in August last year that the Mahinda Pik-Up is honest-buying for the money (it is very inexpensive). Now, with Mahindra announcing ‘on sale’ prices for the Pik-Up range, it is even better buying.

As part of an end-of-model run-out sale, the Pik-Up range – which includes 4×2 and 4×4 platforms in cab, single cab and dual cab [...]

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It looks like folks in the US will have to wait a little longer before getting their hands on the Mahindra range of vehicles.  Mahindra’s global managing director, Anand Mahindra, reportedly has plans to run a fleet of vehicles over 5 million kilometres of US roads, before he’ll allow sales to proceed.

Georgia-based Global Vehicles will be overseeing US [...]

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Okay, the Mahindra Pik-Up isn’t completely new to the local auto scene (having arrived in 2007), but our road testing is, so when TMI offered me a Pik-Up for a week, I was happy to accept the keys. The fact that I was moving house had absolutely nothing to do with it… at all.

I must [...]

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Fast-breaking news from TMI Pacific: it’s confirmed – tradies love their utes. (Does “duh” spring to mind right about now?) In fact, 10% of them named their ute as their best mate on the job (rating it higher than the Aussie tradie icon of “the dog in the back”) according to a recent survey conducted [...]

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