My Observations on the new Mahindra Thar Roxx after two Test Drives

There are 3 different types of door handles in the Roxx (black flap types for the front doors, vertically mounted body coloured flap types for the rear doors and pull type handle for the boot door).

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I was able to TD M&M Roxx twice, both times in the 4x4 Diesel AT. Please bear with my opinions in a somewhat boring manner (only pointers with no pictures).

• The steering gives a wrong impression of the vehicle size. Like in the XUV 7OO and ScorpioN, the steering is butter smooth at crawling speeds, weighs up artificially at higher speeds.
• The cushions for the seats are on the harder side. Also, the rear seats are better than front seats when it comes to underthigh support, the recline adjustment further enhances the experience.
• In continuation to the above point, the floor height is high (thanks to BOF chassis) making the front seats’ underthigh support ‘bad’. To improve the thigh support, I tend to push the front seats back, compromising the second row legroom. With the driver’s seat all the way down and slightly pushed further back, it visually showed the same amount of legroom in our Rapid with driver’s seat adjusted for me.
• Ride Quality though acceptable, one can sense the suspension working to smooth out the ride. I abused the car by taking it over a speedbreaker at ~17 kmph (I would never imitate the same while driving pseudo SUV), for the front it felt magical, but for the rear passenger the bump traveled through the seat to their spine.
• ADAS felt well calibrated and non-intrusive atleast for my driving style. Not sure if it relies completely on the camera or if there is a radar neatly hidden behind the bumper.
• ORVMs though have good height, would have been better if they were wider.
• Visibility from IRVM is hindered by the spare tyre, though the rear wiper has more than enough cleaning area and the washer too works well. Maybe the only vehicle with a bigger rear wiper compared to the front .
• Brakes felt sharp, acceleration was brutal and body roll felt well-controlled at city driving speed.
• ICE felt good and impressive, possibly because I had lower expectations.
• Camera Quality felt fine for the most part.
• The rain sensor was slow to respond. The catch is that I didn’t check for rain sensor sensitivity; increasing it might resolve the issue.
• Grab Handles are on point, causes no hindrance to vision or during ingress/egress. Side Steps are lower than those on the Thar 3D, yet make no mistake, they are still far off the ground.
• Not a car in which one expects tighter panel gaps. To me, the panel gaps seemed consistent.
• Boot Space is well crafted and adequate (even with the rear seats reclined) for most families IMHO.
• AX7L variant has little to no cup holders. The one in centre console should be interchanged with the electronic parking brake, because the co-passenger side armrest does not slide forward (as is the case with driver’s side armrest). The door pads at front can max hold bottles upto 500 ml, for rear bring down this number to 250 ml.
• Cooled Glovebox is of good size and the only place where we can keep one litre bottle(s).
• There are 3 different types of door handles in the Roxx (black flap types for the front doors, vertically mounted body coloured flap types for the rear doors and pull type handle for the boot door) .
• The dead pedal is perfectly placed (find it to poorly placed in the XUV 7OO).
• The brake pedal is very close to the accelerator pedal, it did interfered during both drives. A slightly adjustment to my right foot solved the issue, but not sure if it will surprise with an acne during long drives.
• The car does not shake when shifting the AT gear between P, R, N, and D.
  NVH is excellent, better than our Rapid as well. Close the doors, and it cocoons you from the city noise. NVH for the second row felt good too. There was no tyre noise or suspension noise, but cannot conclude as the odometer of the TD vehicle was at just 145 km.
• AC vents for the second row should have been placed on the B-pillars too. Cooling felt insufficient in the second row of seats even when the AC was kept in auto mode at 23°C.
• The panoramic sunroof is huge and adequately tinted. With the sunblind covering the sunroof, I didn’t feel any heat traveling into the cabin.
• Grab handles on the roof have soft-close functionality along with coat hanger hooks. Quite handy.

Pardon me for some repetitive pointers. These opinions are subjective.

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