Mahindra Marazzo Test Drive Review – Best Mahindra Yet?

Performance– The Mahindra Marazzo debuts an all new engine, all new if you aren’t aware that the D12 oil burner from the KUV100 got an extra cylinder to power this MPV, increasing displacement to 1.5-litres and thus got badged D15 in the process. Crank the engine (and you don’t need effort as it works like the contact less starter on bikes) and the motor comes to life with little to no noise, such is the level of refinement and once you get going too, the engine purrs along in silence, impressive.

The NVH levels on the Marazzo are pretty impressive, especially for a Mahindra

This Mahindra Marazzo outputs a decent 121 BHP and 300 Nm and as long as you don’t check the car’s weight, which happens to be a sizeable 1600 kgs, you might expect a lot of grunt. Power delivery is linear for the most part, turbo lag is well contained and the mid-range is strong but there is no top-end and redline comes in early at just 4300 RPM. On part throttle, the motor works brilliantly well but get the pedal to the floor and it simply leaves you wanting for more, more so when you want a quick overtake on the highway. Our VBOX tells us this car takes 15.29 seconds to do the 0-100 km/hr sprint, that’s not shabby by any means.

Mahindra has given the Marazzo a 6-speed manual gearbox, one which shifts smoothly but has long throws, aided by a clutch that is light. But we are in 2018 and everyone and their dog wants an automatic, so just bring in the AT, people don’t care about mileage this much these days, just kidding, fuel prices are at their peak so you should know ARAI gave the Marazzo a 17.3, yeah, that’s right, 17.3 km/l, real world looks more like 11 km/l if you ask me. And there is an ECO mode too (with an Eco Sense display in the infotainment system to kill time when you wait for your wife and kids at the grocery store). More than how much mileage it improves, it dulls performance as power output drops to 100 BHP, in essence, that ECO mode is the reverse of Sport mode.