[Jekyl87]

So I got a call yesterday from the dealer to give the final color and charger option. He had his ASM on the call too. The ASM confirmed that if you select white, he will commit delivery within March first week. He said that he has already allocated about 10 white xev to customers which had been allocated to him. He said white and black are the two colors most readily available in the first lot Mahindra has dispatched to dealers. Unfortunately, I don't prefer both. So have asked for red as first choice and desert myst as secondary. Let's see how soon the delivery happens.

[nilambuj]

Originally Posted by handsofsteel

No, not seen Ruby velvet. Seen all other colours.

Do you (or anyone) have pictures of the stealth black?

[250Nm]

Originally Posted by nilambuj

Do you (or anyone) have pictures of the stealth black?

Clicked during my visit to the dealership:




White seats

[LionX]

Originally Posted by 250Nm

White seats
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I’m sure the vehicle will get black interiors when they launch it in Australia, South Africa, New Zealand etc. For some reason Mahindra thinks light colour interiors means luxury.

[nilambuj]

Thanks a lot for the images. This looks gorgeous IMHO.

For a second I thought that Mahindra has decided to give Off-white seats
White seats
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[07CR]

Originally Posted by 250Nm

White seats
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If anyone is in doubt about BE6 vs XEV9E, that pic of white seats are alone enough to convince anyone to get a BE6!

[driver641]

Originally Posted by nilambuj

Do you (or anyone) have pictures of the stealth black?

A couple of clicks of the Stealth Black 9e.





Also, looks like deliveries for the 1st lot can happen earlier than march end.
I already had the Charger team inspect my house to check the installation feasibility and as they suggested I requested for additional load from the EB today.

The Sales team also made me remove the preference I have saved in customer portal and they have made their own entry which I can't edit myself. So the booking process is already in full swing from the dealer side.

The information I have got from my dealer is the first 60 cars are ready, and they are planning 25 deliveries as the first lot. Looks like I have made it to the first lot (Feels like I signed up as a Beta tester!) FYI, Everest White is the color I have finally selected.

[wooka]

I'll be double posting this in both forums - BE 6 and XEV 9E.

I went with a laser measure to check out both - I've got (some) measurements given a somewhat comfortable seating position in both vehicles.

6 to the left, 9 to the right (where I have data.)
1. Driver knee width - 1.79 ft in the 6. It's very high up in the 6, so it matters more.
2. Door to door rear - 4.66 ft in the 6.
3. Boot lip to rear seat base (the 6 is already quite slant, and fixed, do note) - 2.45 : 3.24 ft
4. Boot width (comfortable usable space, accounting for wheel arches) - 3.44 : 3.91

Inferences:
1. 6E has just about enough space to tuck toes in with slippers when sitting at the back.
2. The seat rear is uncomfortable in the 6 if your knees hit it.
3. The boot is 2x the 6 in the 9. The frunk is 3x.
4. The knee space is sufficient but if you want to bend your knees sideways on a long drive momentarily, it will scrape the base of the steering stalk. Tough!
5. The 6E feels like a swift, honestly, while the 9E feels like a 700 (driver's seat, at least). All things considered, that's that.
6. Headroom for a 6.1 guy is marginal in the 6. Great in the 9 (driver's seat, at least). Rear headroom in both cars is .. just bad, esp coming from a Thar and a Scorpio-N.
7. The fender is unnecessarily raised in the 6E which causes a good loss in visibility of the road. The 9 is better but simply doesn't compare the true SUVs from MnM.
8. The glass is pretty curved on the 6E v/s the 9. The HUD is a complete warped mess between both eyes. This is still bad but not horrible on the 9. If this were on the Thar Roxx, it'd be picture perfect. I simply cannot focus on the speed reading on the 6E come what may (tried multiple driver head positions AND realigning the HUD projection spot - nothing gave.)

I would like to add that the 6 is a little stiff to drive and I am thinking that the regular non-active 700-esque shockers may treat the car better (hoping for part sharing between the 6E and 9.)

[masterkjn]

I have booked the 9e pack 3 in Stealth black. My SA tried his level best to dissuade me from the black color for some reason - First he was like "it does not look sporty Sir". Then he told me black has an expected waiting period of 6 months vs 1 month for the other colors. I still insisted on the black color.

[sharmanova]

On-road price in my city:

[idoctor]

Originally Posted by Ashah

I have unofficially booked the Pack 3 Tango Red with 19 inchers. Was wondering if the upgrade to 20 inch would be worthy considering the multi link dampening ? Also any idea on what would be the expected price jump?

Be ready to cough up upwards of 100k if not 100k for the 20 inch upgrade

[prajakt_23]

Originally Posted by 250Nm

Clicked during my visit to the dealership:

White seats
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I have observed the same during my visit to Sahyadri motors in Pune. I keep on thinking about this. Even after criticism for 3XO, Thar RoXX's white seats, how could they still continue with white seats for 9e?? They are just taking customers for granted. Why can't they simply offer two options for seat covers / interiors? For the sake of argument, even if they launch brown / tan / grey colour seat covers later on, why should early adopters suffer for this mess?

There is some serious issue with M&M designers!! I agree that they cannot satisfy everybody. However, they need to differentiate between what's must have in car and what can be optional even from aesthetics and visual appeal perspective. Dark (read 'Not white') seats, is a must have attribute for an India car IMHO.

[GautamJ]

Sharing the price list from NBS International (Mumbai, Maharashtra). No mention of optional R20 yet.

As usual, the insurance is exorbitantly inflated.

[kgt.v8]

I finally got lone time with XEV 9E as some of the initial rush has gone down. The car was great to drive, but all the excitement and enthusiasm to own one went away as soon as I attempted to use the center panel with touch buttons for hazard lamps, 360 degree camera, electric boot open, auto parking, etc. buttons. This is a touch sensitive as per the SA, but as per our official review it is not. Initially I interacted with this one single large button like a touch enabled one (because I forgot that this is not touch enabled) and it did not respond. Then I pressed slightly above the printed icons and the function on the icon would work when I hear slight click sound. I still could not get this to work only 40% of the times out of 10+ attempts I made. The one on new Harrier/Safari felt more responsive than the one on 9E and this 9E was a pretty new car which got allocated to the dealership.

The steering felt good to hold and drive, but the touch like buttons brought back memory of new Tata Harrier/Safari steering. I could not get horn to honk at the right time and I had to look down at the steering to press lane keep assist, adaptive cruise control buttons.

I am still old school and like individual physical buttons on center console and steering wheel and some buttons on steering and center console are the ones that I would interact with on day to day basis. These touch buttons not responding at the right time single handedly made me think if I can live with this experience and after lot of debate between brain and the heart, the brain has won and has asked me to hold off until some real life reviews are out or if Mahindra replaces these with physical buttons.

Originally Posted by sharmanova

On-road price in my city:

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I see "Battery Price" column with ₹50k and ₹75k values only for BE6 Pack3 Select C7, BE6 Pack3 Select C11, XEV9E Pack2 C7 and XEV9E Pack2 C11. The charger prices for C7 and C11 are added to ex-showroom for rest of the variants.
Mahindra and/or the dealer are playing around with ex-showroom price because they know road tax will be charged in Karnataka when ex-showroom price goes beyond ₹25 lakh and people may not buy these variants. I am not sure if other dealers are also following this same practice. If this is happening across dealerships in Karnataka then something smells fishy to me. I will check with my SA as I did not received on-road prices yet for all the variants as I have not given confirmation on booking yet.

[Jekyl87]

Originally Posted by GautamJ

Sharing the price list from NBS International (Mumbai, Maharashtra). No mention of optional R20 yet.

As usual, the insurance is exorbitantly inflated.

What is these protections and why are they mandatory? Very fishy. Sharing the one I got in Delhi. This was before the launch of pack 1,2 prices so does not contain that.