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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Earlier this year we drove the double-cab Mahindra Pik-Up for a week and it proved itself to be a simple, rugged and rather endearing offering from the Indian company. Sure, there were some rough edges, and some issues concerning its low safety rating at the time, but it was priced to appeal to buyers looking [...]

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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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TMI Pacific, distributors of the cheap and cheerful Mahindra Pik-Up utility have confirmed plans to establish a dealer network across Australia. Mahindra dealers have already been established in rural and metro areas along the eastern seaboard and the next market to be targeted is South Australia, with Western Australia to follow. [...]

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Mahindra isn’t new to the Australian market but there wouldn’t be very many Australians who would recall the name. The first visit was back in 1990 and the product was basically a rebadged Willys Jeep. The initial batch of 250 were difficult to shift despite very competitive pricing and Mahindra retreated to lick it wounds.

Now [...]

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