Test drove the Mahindra BE 6 in BLR traffic: 8 quick observations

ADAS works rather well, screens are very crisp, UI is about the same or slightly better than BYD.

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Took another drive with the BE6 for around a full hour in BLR traffic. Got to experience a lot of the features and got a lot of clarity on a bunch of things.

Here's my first drive review for context: https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/elect...ml#post5912346

Adding stuff from before:

The driving experience

• As mentioned before, the driving modes really make a big difference. For heavy traffic like Bengaluru, range mode in city traffic feels the most natural. Everyday mode for light traffic and race mode should only be used on open road. In city using it was scary, and the sales rep confirmed that's the cause for so many minor accidents.
• The radars are kinda useful, and especially the vibrations on steering wheel while blind spot is active. If you give indicator, it warns you about traffic from that side. I didn't think 360 cam will be this useful with ADAS, but now I think pack 3 has real value over pack 2 with the fancier ADAS tech.
• Regen is tuned okay. Level 1 feels very natural and there's some extra regen when you press brake too. Level 2 is also very usable in city but with a bit of learning curve.

Features

• The HUD is very useful. Mahindra has done some software magic here. It integrates with ADAS system and shows blind view monitors, close vehicles. What's more impressive is that it integrates with both the inbuilt maps as well as android auto. Couldn't test carplay as rep said it was disabled in this version of software and will be enabled in next. But this should work with that too.
• As you know, lots of other features. ADAS works rather well, screens are very crisp, UI is about the same or slightly better than BYD.

Room

• This time paid a lot more attention to the room and seats. The front seats are very very good. The support is good, it's powered, both front seats are ventilated, and there's lumbar support for driver. I felt absolutely no discomfort for one hour. Also about height adjust, even at the highest position I had about 4-5 inches of headroom (I'm 5'10")
• Rear seat room is pretty decent. I had a good bit of legroom and it's closer to your Creta/Seltos in terms of comfort than a sub-4m car. So I maintain that.
• Boot is actually much bigger than I thought it is. Pics attached below. I took one full size cabin bag (can fit 25 kg, around 100L) and one check in bag. These are the max my i10 nios could accommodate, else I planned to take a medium size bag as well. The BE took them all easily, and could fit one more set of bags. So this is a big enough boot even for a large family vacation. Frunk is extra and there's 60:40 split for extra room. You can move the parcel shelf up by a couple inches or remove that to unlock a lot of room which the pics will show, and still maintain good visibility. If you pack till the roof the space is humongous.

Attaching pics of boot and my legroom(the legroom feels better than it looks from this angle, but I guess I didn't think much before clicking this):

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