It seems like madness that you could spend twice as much as the Mahindra Pik-Up's purchase price on a Toyota LandCruiser 70 Series...but that's the reality! Paul Maric tests out the 2024 Mahindra Pik-Up Work Pack to see if it stacks up against the LandCruiser 70 Series.
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Exterior: 00:57
Interior: 03:50
Infotainment: 05:13
Safety Tech: 06:16
Practicality: 06:54
On-road: 09:01
Performance: 15:16
Off-road: 18:23
Verdict: 24:42
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Performance: 15:16
Off-road: 18:23
Verdict: 24:42
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00:00 G'day, I'm Paul. So if you want a 70 Series but don't want to wait four years and also don't want to spend
00:05 $80,000, I reckon this could be up your alley. It is the Indian 70 Series.
00:10 Actually, tell us if you want us to do a comparison with the new four-cylinder 70 Series and this thing.
00:15 I think that could be a bit of fun. This is called the Mahindra Pickup. This is the dual cab version.
00:21 It's also a version they've recently released with the Work Pack,
00:24 so it gets a few accessories that I'll run you through in a sec.
00:26 This is priced at an absolutely ridiculous $40,000 drive away.
00:30 I mean, it is the bargain of the century when it comes to work vehicles.
00:34 Today we're going to do a detailed review of this, a little bit of light off-roading as well.
00:38 We'll see what it's like. If you do want to skip ahead to other parts of this review,
00:41 you can use the time codes that are on the screen, or if you're on YouTube,
00:44 you can scroll down and use the chapters below.
00:46 And if you haven't done so already, subscribe to our channel and press the bell icon as well.
00:50 That way you can find out every single time we review a 70 Series competitor.
00:55 Now let's talk about designs. You've got four colours to pick from and they're all free of charge.
01:00 How's that for value for money? Now in terms of the design, look, design is entirely subjective,
01:05 but I reckon the appearance of this is enhanced dramatically with the Work Pack
01:09 because you're getting this bull bar that kind of gives it an aggressive look at the front end there.
01:13 You get a snorkel as well, along with the aluminium tray too that I'll run you through in just a second.
01:17 On the bull bar here, you have fog lights, you have these little LED lights as well
01:22 that repeat the indicator and also running lights. You have hooks down the front here.
01:26 Chrome on the grille there with the Mahindra logo, and then some cooling for the engine up the top there as well.
01:31 It's a four-cylinder turbocharged diesel. Over here you have a set of halogen headlamps.
01:36 Not exactly the best headlights in the world. I don't know, I wish they could be a little bit brighter or perhaps LED.
01:42 Maybe that's a change they'll make in the future. Come around to the side with me.
01:45 So 16-inch alloy wheels and you're running a set of highway terrain tyres.
01:51 So I think if you are going to be interested in doing a little bit of off-roading,
01:56 I'll be going down the path of an all-terrain as opposed to the highway terrain,
02:00 but I guess it'll serve the purpose of what we're going to try and do today.
02:03 You have auto-locking hubs, so you don't need to worry about that. This is where the snorkel path is.
02:08 So the snorkel's interesting. So it's kind of like this textured plastic material.
02:13 I'll be interested to see when we go for a drive whether this adds a lot of wind noise to the equation,
02:18 because I did notice the other day when we were driving the Great Wall Cannon XSR
02:23 that it had a lot of wind noise about the snorkel. So I'll be interested to see how that goes.
02:28 Interesting snorkel as well. A lot of plastic cut-offs there. So exactly the best installation in the world.
02:33 On the other side you have the description of the engine, which is M-Hawk D140, which stands for 140 horsepower.
02:39 And then M-Hawk is the name of the engine as well.
02:42 On the side here you have indicator built into the wing mirror.
02:45 Look at this, proper side steps. So typically with these dual cab utes, they have like plastic side steps.
02:52 They're always a bit sort of nasty and crap, whereas this is a proper setup there.
02:56 Ground clearance of just over 200 millimetres as well. A bit of texturing there.
03:02 Drum brakes over here, so no disc brakes. 70 Series has one up on that. Come around to the back with me.
03:07 Now around the back here, this is your aluminium tray, so this comes included as part of that pack.
03:11 You've got your lights over here. You have a rear fog light there as well.
03:15 You have a reverse camera nestled into here.
03:18 And then you also have a couple more hooks just buried under there as well, along with a spare tyre too.
03:24 In terms of your towing capacity, two and a half tonne with a brake trailer.
03:28 And payload, this is probably the most impressive part. You have a payload of just over a tonne.
03:33 So this is a proper work ute that you can actually use for work stuff.
03:36 So it is a pretty impressive setup there.
03:38 So let me know what you reckon about the pickup in the comments section below.
03:41 Do you reckon it's good value for money? Would you buy it over a 70 Series?
03:45 Do you want us to do a comparison with the 70 Series? Let me know in the comments section below.
03:49 So welcome to the interior of the pickup. We'll start off with the key.
03:53 So you've got a normal key. Lock, panic, unlock.
03:57 And then you've got a little flip out there with a Mahindra logo on the back.
04:01 You've got a keyhole over here that's really hard to see.
04:05 Very hard to see from the driver's seat.
04:08 I'll flick all this stuff on.
04:10 So, I mean, look, this is, you always get this beautiful welcome sound as well,
04:16 along with this animation there, which is great.
04:19 So it's all pretty robust in here.
04:22 And it's the same story, it's the same story with the 70 Series.
04:27 And they've kind of gone with that because they know the people that are buying these
04:30 aren't after all the latest soft touch materials and gizmos and gadgets.
04:35 This is all very sort of rough and tumble and ready to last the test of time.
04:41 It really is what they've built this for. So that is very much the case there.
04:45 Now, in terms of your touch points, so this folds down.
04:49 Keep in mind, though, when it is folded down, you can't put your seatbelt on.
04:52 Like it's actually impossible to do.
04:54 So you've got to lift it up, put your seatbelt on, then fold it down.
04:57 So it is just one of those little design quirks, but it is good that it has an armrest there
05:02 because there's nothing here in the centre.
05:04 Outside of that, what about your door slams? This is what it sounds like.
05:08 [Door slams]
05:11 Nice and sturdy.
05:13 Now let's talk infotainment. So, you've got a seven inch infotainment system.
05:18 It may look sort of a little bit not great, but it is actually not too bad.
05:21 And I'll run you through that in just a second.
05:23 Head of the driver, a small digital display that has your trip computer and things like engine temp
05:28 and fuel levels and stuff like that.
05:30 Now, the infotainment system. So on the radio front, you have AM and FM radio
05:34 and it's plumbed through four speakers.
05:36 But the thing that impresses me with this, you've got a lot of additional functionality within here.
05:41 So you've got your car's trip information.
05:43 You have, I guess, a condensed version of the manual in here as well.
05:48 But then you also have smartphone mirroring in the form of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.
05:53 So I'll show you what Android Auto looks like.
05:55 So it takes up that full screen there. It's nice and quick without any dramas.
05:59 This is a wired system. And I'll show you what Apple CarPlay looks like.
06:02 So again, full screen integration.
06:05 Nice and snappy there as well, so that's not too bad.
06:09 Outside of that, you've got some shortcut buttons down the bottom there
06:12 and then physical controls for all of your audio functions.
06:16 Now, safety technology. This is where the 70 Series does pip the Mahindra pickup a little bit.
06:22 So you don't have any autonomous emergency braking,
06:24 but you do have electronic stability control and traction control as well.
06:29 You've got a reverse view camera.
06:32 And outside of that, it's all sort of pretty straightforward.
06:34 You have regular cruise control. There's no radar cruise control here.
06:37 I'll show you what the reverse camera looks like.
06:39 So there it is there. You can clearly see what's written on the suitcase there.
06:43 It is on a weird angle though. It's kind of strange, but outside of that,
06:47 it serves its purpose and it does it fairly well.
06:51 This is what the horn sounds like.
06:53 Now let's talk about practicality.
06:55 So you don't have wireless phone charging or anything like that.
06:57 You've got a single USB A port up here, an auxiliary outlet.
07:00 You've got a 12 volt outlet down the bottom here as well.
07:04 In terms of storing your phone, you can kind of just pop it here in one of these cup holders.
07:09 So it is a little bit annoying. I came here this morning, got my small coffee.
07:14 It kind of, yeah, actually it does fit in there.
07:17 See, I didn't try and put it in there, but yeah, if you try and put it up the top here,
07:20 there's no sort of holder. So it kind of just moves around all over the place.
07:24 You do notice that with your bottle. Look at our trendy new bottle.
07:27 There is only one or two spots for it and then it's hard for it to actually sort of wedge in anywhere.
07:33 So, and then putting it inside the door doesn't work either because there's no storage space there.
07:38 So in terms of other storage, you have basically these slots here.
07:43 You've got a glove box down the front here, which is okay in terms of size.
07:47 And then a sunglasses holder up the top.
07:50 Yeah, comfort. So you have single zone automatic climate control.
07:55 Seats, they are manually adjustable, so you can go forwards and backwards.
07:58 You can adjust your backrest. You can also adjust the seat height as well.
08:02 Although it's hard to do with the door closed, you can have the door open.
08:04 Passenger seat is manually adjustable. So you've got your armrest that folds down, which is great.
08:09 Seats are pretty comfy as well for this type of vehicle.
08:12 And then in terms of steering adjustment, it only offers tilt adjustment.
08:16 There is no reach adjustment. On our reach test, all of this stuff is easy to reach while you're driving.
08:21 Now, second row. Climb into here.
08:25 Oh, this is tight. All right.
08:29 Yeah, this is actually super tight.
08:31 Despite the wheelbase, there's actually not a great deal of room here.
08:34 So headroom is excellent. Knee room, not great. Toe room, pretty good.
08:40 Yeah, you do get a centre armrest here that folds down.
08:44 Two ISOFIX points on the outboard seats.
08:47 You've got air vents down the bottom here, a little bit of storage as well.
08:50 Now, the window. Let's do our window test.
08:52 If it goes all the way down. So it's manual up and down.
08:58 Living the dream.
09:03 Okay, so we have just hit the road in the pickup.
09:06 I've got to tell you, this is a lot more refined than I thought it was going to be.
09:10 So this engine, 2.2 litre turbocharged four cylinder diesel.
09:15 It's actually a Euro 6 engine, which means it uses AdBlue and it's highly efficient and efficient for the European market.
09:25 There are still a number of cars on sale in Australia that only meet Euro 5 emissions regulations.
09:31 So it's pretty impressive they've been able to offer that on sale in Australia.
09:35 You're going to get an efficient vehicle that burns as clean as possible at the moment.
09:41 Now, what does all that mean?
09:43 So it produces just over 100 kilowatts of power and 320 newton metres of torque.
09:50 So it really isn't a huge amount of power and torque.
09:53 And look, to be honest, that's going to be a bit of an issue if you are towing or carrying a big payload,
09:59 because you are going to notice that it is quite slow and sluggish.
10:03 But it is all mated to a six speed Aisin automatic transmission.
10:07 And the transmission actually isn't too bad.
10:09 So as you're sort of driving along, if you get stuck into it, it's actually not that laggy.
10:15 And even just the engine itself really isn't that laggy.
10:18 When you get on the throttle, it's ready to go.
10:20 So it is sort of quite decent from that regard.
10:23 And with just over 300 newton metres of torque, it's not going to pull your face off,
10:26 but it kind of just gets it moving in traffic without sort of too many dramas.
10:30 Now, Mahindra claims a combined fuel economy of just under 10 litres per 100 k's.
10:36 The confusing part is this can only show me kilometres a litre or miles per gallon.
10:43 So we're currently sitting on 11 kilometres a litre.
10:46 And we'll show that conversion on the screen so you know what that looks like.
10:49 In terms of the driveline, it is a full time two wheel drive high range vehicle.
10:54 When we go off roading, I'll run you through the four wheel drive settings,
10:57 but you can use four wheel drive high range, but it needs to be on unsealed surfaces.
11:01 And there is also a rear diff lock that is an auto locking rear diff.
11:07 And I'll explain how that works when we do a little bit of off road driving.
11:10 Now on the ride front, leaf spring at the rear, because it has such a big payload,
11:16 they're quite stiff leaf springs, so you do need to have some load in it for it to feel settled.
11:20 So you will sort of bounce around a fair bit.
11:23 It does feel sort of pretty taut and firmly sprung when you don't have a load in the vehicle.
11:28 So that is one of the downsides you have when it comes to a vehicle like this with a high payload.
11:33 You do pay the cost when it comes to actual ride comfort.
11:37 So what does all that mean on our sine waves?
11:39 So we're going to attack our sine waves here at 130 k's an hour.
11:43 This is just a really good indication to give us an idea of what body control is like.
11:49 And we do it at 130 because that is the highest legal speed limit here in Australia.
11:54 That is if I can get to 130.
11:56 Here we go, we're almost there.
11:58 It's actually surprisingly good.
12:02 There you go, that's actually surprisingly good.
12:05 So it's nowhere near as raucous as some other vehicles that are built like this.
12:11 So it's actually quite settled over those sine waves and doesn't throw you around too much, which is good news.
12:16 Okay, it is time for the roughest road in Australia.
12:22 We do this at 90 k's an hour.
12:24 This is a good indication of what this is like over a corrugated road.
12:28 Something you might hit out of the country.
12:30 Look at it bouncing all over the place.
12:35 One of the downsides of that slightly more taut ride.
12:38 Here comes our condensed sine wave now as well.
12:41 That has shaken the living daylights out of this thing.
12:49 But it's all still holding together perfectly fine.
12:52 So they've done actually a lot of testing here in Australia with these in the outback.
12:57 And they have torture tested the crap out of these.
13:01 In fact, in India, I've driven in India before,
13:04 the payload figures on these are just kind of comical because people just overload the crap out of them in India.
13:10 So these are built to stand the test of time.
13:13 And it's not hard to say that it is might be simple sort of here inside the cabin.
13:17 But this thing is going to be living well beyond most other dual cab utes on the market.
13:23 Now, I'm sure you'll be surprised to hear there are no dry modes.
13:27 We'll go for a little fang around the track.
13:30 We did this in the 70 series as well.
13:32 So I'll be interested to see how this compares.
13:35 Here comes our first turn.
13:37 Let's go, let's go.
13:47 And a little bit laggy there.
13:50 Once it feels that you are tipping in, it does reduce torque.
13:53 Because it thinks you're going to roll over.
13:56 I'm just very much planted to the board here.
14:00 It's not exactly running away from us.
14:02 We did some more dynamic driving earlier.
14:04 And once you do really lean into it, you do sort of reach the limits of it pretty quickly.
14:10 But it's not a sports car.
14:12 A little bit of kickback through the steering there mid corner.
14:16 It's a faster section at the back.
14:19 It's interesting, even though it has the manual gear shifts here,
14:26 if you do leave it in the manual mode and try and hold the gear,
14:30 it just doesn't hold gears, it'll just shift up on its own.
14:33 Which kind of defeats the purpose of manual mode.
14:37 Like I'm flat right now on the board and it's just at 2000 RPM instead of bringing us the gear below.
14:43 So those ratios aren't very good.
14:45 But yeah, look, it's fine.
14:47 It's no sports car and that's perfectly fine.
14:49 But it is sort of pretty okay in terms of the way that it handles.
14:52 Now in terms of cabin noise, it's actually pretty quiet inside the cabin.
14:56 It is surprising that it doesn't really make that much of a racket.
14:59 When you do get up to 80, 100 k's an hour though, there is a lot of wind noise
15:03 and it's about that snorkel that they've installed.
15:06 So you do hear a little bit of that once you are driving along.
15:09 It's not the end of the world, but it is sort of fairly prominent inside the cabin,
15:13 especially as the wind picks up.
15:15 Okay, time to do some performance testing.
15:18 This should be good fun.
15:19 I'm going to go literally to the very edge of the skid pan here because I need to hit 120.
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15:55 So, alrighty, we are good to go.
15:58 I'm right on the edge of the skid pan here.
16:01 I'm going to switch traction control off.
16:04 We're going to try and get to 120, so hold on is my advice.
16:09 Here we go.
16:10 [Car engine revving]
16:16 Alright.
16:18 Okay.
16:20 Yeah, look, off the mark it is actually not terrible.
16:25 So there's 90 k's now. It's actually doing okay.
16:28 So we're going to go all the way through to 120.
16:30 [Car engine revving]
16:32 It's 110.
16:34 [Car engine revving]
16:38 120 is going to be hard. We're using our access road here.
16:42 [Car engine revving]
16:44 [Laughs]
16:46 Jump on the anchors. Far out, okay.
16:48 Yeah, 120 is the issue there because we're almost at the end of our access road at the moment.
16:54 Alright, cool. Let's have a look at that.
16:56 So, 0 to 100 took 14.18 seconds.
17:01 Now that sounds like a long time, but we tested the GWN Canon XSR here the other day and that took almost that long as well.
17:07 So, and then 80 to 120, 17.46 seconds.
17:12 So I think that probably tells you where this vehicle has its biggest issue and that is once you're off the line, really just getting it moving.
17:21 That 80 to 120 time takes longer than this takes to get from 0 to 100.
17:26 So that kind of gives you an idea of what you're going to be battling with.
17:29 Okay, time to do a break from 100.
17:31 I'm going to need a big old run up here as well.
17:34 So, here we go.
17:37 See how this performs.
17:41 Alright, there's 90.
17:43 And 100.
17:45 Okey dokey.
17:50 Look, it felt okay from behind the wheel.
17:54 100 to 0, 3.04 seconds and 42.56 meters.
17:58 That really isn't bad at all.
18:00 I was quite surprised by that, so pretty impressive effort there for our braking as well.
18:06 So, cool.
18:07 Now the moment you've all been waiting for, how fast will it go in reverse?
18:11 Here we go.
18:13 Alright, 40, 2 kilometers an hour.
18:22 Okay, time to do a little bit of light off-roading.
18:26 Let me run you through the full drive specs first.
18:29 So I mentioned before it's a full time two wheel drive high range on sealed surfaces.
18:34 On unsealed surfaces you can run it in four wheel drive high range and four wheel drive low range.
18:39 You have a hill descent control as well and then an Eaton auto locking rear differential.
18:44 So that means once it senses a delta in wheel rotation, it then locks the rear diff.
18:50 Not a huge fan of those systems because they can be very shunty and not very nice.
18:54 But we'll see what it's like here today.
18:56 In terms of your numbers, just over 200 mil of ground clearance.
18:59 Approach angle, really impressive, 34 degrees.
19:01 Departure angle, not so impressive, 15 degrees.
19:04 And then a wading depth of 500 mil.
19:06 Now if none of that makes any sense to you, we actually shot a video explaining four wheel drive controls.
19:10 You can click up there to watch that one.
19:12 So what we're going to do, we're going to go to our offset mogul and we're going to go through in two wheel drive high range first.
19:18 And that is going to be with traction control on.
19:21 So the whole purpose of this is just to test what traction control is like, how well it works.
19:26 So let's get this wheel off the ground out the back.
19:31 There it is, just there.
19:33 And then I'll just lightly go onto the throttle and we'll just see how well the traction control works.
19:38 So here we go.
19:40 There you go.
19:41 So immediately I can see that rear wheel has stopped turning because the diff has locked itself.
19:46 So the diff basically sensed that we had a delta change between one wheel and the other wheel in terms of rotation speed.
19:53 And then it locked the rear diff.
19:55 So that's pretty impressive with the way that worked.
19:58 It wasn't a massive shunt like I have found with some vehicles that have this type of arrangement.
20:03 So that wasn't too bad.
20:04 So we'll go back now and give it a shot in four wheel drive high range.
20:07 Okie dokie.
20:08 So let's flick that over to 4H.
20:11 A little light flashes down there.
20:13 Wait for that to activate.
20:15 Ok, so four wheel drive high range is activated.
20:17 Steering has become heavier than it normally is.
20:20 And it's very heavy to start with.
20:22 So what we're going to do here is get it into a situation where we have two wheels with limited traction.
20:28 And then I'm going to rest on the throttle and we'll see how it goes.
20:31 So here we go, that's our spot just there, resting on the throttle.
20:35 A little bit more throttle.
20:39 There it is.
20:42 What happened there was the rear diff locked and then it allowed us to get the traction that we needed.
20:47 So prior to that we just had wheels slip, then the rear diff locked and then it went.
20:51 So it looks like the traction control isn't overly useful,
20:55 given it has to rely on the rear diff lock to actually get it out of a situation like that.
20:59 But like I said, it did what it was meant to do at the end of the day.
21:03 Ok, it's time for our hill.
21:05 So what we do here, I line it up and pop it into low range.
21:09 We go up once just with gradual throttle to see if it'll make it to the top.
21:13 Then I come back around again, come up and stop.
21:16 And then try and take off again just to see how well that ascent works.
21:20 So we'll go into low range.
21:22 Flip that over.
21:24 That's ready.
21:25 Alright, here we go.
21:26 So gradual throttle to start with.
21:28 It's kind of a loose sandy material here.
21:32 There it goes.
21:34 Piece of cake.
21:38 So as we were ascending there I could feel the diff lock as we were coming up.
21:43 So it actually did a nice job there without shunting us too much.
21:46 We'll get through our little mud bath just there.
21:49 Alrighty, so I'm going to take this out of low range now
21:52 and then use our hill descent control just to test how well that works.
21:56 Ok, that's out of low range.
21:58 We'll engage hill descent control.
22:00 And we'll go over the top here, see how well that works.
22:03 I'll come to a stop just here.
22:06 Let go of the brake.
22:08 Alright, hill descent control is active.
22:10 Yeah, it seems to work well.
22:14 I can't control the speed using cruise,
22:16 but it went down fairly easily without any dramas there.
22:20 So, alright, that is all good.
22:22 Let's go back to our hill.
22:23 Ok, hill time again.
22:24 This time I'm going to bring it up and come to a stop
22:27 just so we can see how it goes with an ascent.
22:30 So here we go.
22:33 Just here.
22:34 So it actually has a hill hold, so when I let go of the brake here
22:37 it's going to hold the vehicle for a couple of seconds.
22:39 I'll roll onto the throttle.
22:41 Piece of cake.
22:43 Even on these tyres, it is just going through there without any dramas at all.
22:48 So, yep, very impressed with that.
22:51 Finally, time for the rocks.
22:53 Let's see what it's like in terms of clearance here.
22:57 Alrighty, so what I'm going to do here is just ride the brake with the throttle
23:00 and we'll just see what it's like on the clearance front
23:02 and also the comfort front as we go through here.
23:04 So 210mm of ground clearance isn't a massive amount,
23:08 but it's also not a tiny amount either.
23:11 A little touchdown just there.
23:13 It is actually quite nice and comfortable here as well.
23:19 It's not really throwing us around too much, which is pretty good.
23:21 I was expecting it to be lobbing us all over the place
23:24 with the leaf sprung setup, but it's pretty good.
23:27 So, yeah, it looks like from that touchdown we had earlier
23:31 it's actually getting across this stuff pretty easily
23:35 and in a very comfortable way as well.
23:38 Time to do a little bit of a river crossing.
23:40 We've got our snorkels, so it'll be interesting to see how it goes.
23:43 Wading depth of 500mm isn't amazing, but our water level is 450 at the moment,
23:48 so it should be okay.
23:50 I've left it in low range.
23:52 Okay, here we go.
23:55 Drop it in.
24:00 Beautiful.
24:02 Yeah, no dramas at all.
24:05 There really isn't much water in here at the moment.
24:07 Getting towards summer, it's going to become much worse.
24:10 No touchdown on the front.
24:12 Let's see how it goes in the back.
24:13 15 degrees isn't the best departure angle, but no dramas there.
24:17 Perfect. Excellent.
24:19 Yeah, look, I mean, meander a pick up.
24:22 Kind of a go anywhere ute.
24:25 I don't love the auto locking rear diff, to be honest.
24:29 I think if I was buying one of these, I'd go with the all-terrains
24:31 and also see if I could switch it out for a manually locking rear diff.
24:35 But it is kind of just a bit of a go anywhere beast
24:38 that isn't going to be too fussed with anything that you throw at it.
24:42 So, meander a pick up. What do we think?
24:47 Look, if you're going to use this in and around the city,
24:49 I reckon forget about it, because it's not exactly the most practical city car.
24:53 But if you need to load stuff into the back,
24:55 if you need to come out and do a bit of off-roading,
24:57 if you've got a farm, this is the best $40,000 you're ever going to spend.
25:01 I mean, the fact that it is $40,000 drive away for such a big vehicle,
25:05 and especially when you consider that this is the same,
25:07 pretty much, as a 70 Series Land Cruiser that is double the price
25:10 and has like a four-year wait, it almost seems like you'd be bonkers
25:13 to go down the path of a 70 Series over this.
25:15 So, for what it is, it is really impressive.
25:18 Mahindra is working on a global pick up,
25:20 so it's going to be their contender against some of the big names
25:22 on the Australian market.
25:23 So it'll be interesting to see how that develops,
25:25 but this is what we have for the moment.
25:27 So, let me know what you reckon in the comments section below.
25:30 What do you think of this? Do you reckon it's good value for money?
25:32 And would you buy this over a 70 Series Land Cruiser?
25:35 I'm keen to see what you think.
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