Mahindra NuvoSport N 8 Road Test Review

Buying an automobile today in the country is not as easy as it was in the past when you just had a couple of models to choose from. Now car buyers in India are spoilt for choice, especially when it comes to the affordable SUV segment in the market. This SUV space is evolving big time in terms of design as well as pricing. For the Mahindras, who have been ruling the roost in this SUV segment, it’s been one long and interesting journey. Their portfolio today consists of the Scorpio, the Bolero, the XUV 500, the KUV 100, the TUV 300 and the recently launched NuvoSport, among others.

The NuvoSport is essentially a modified Quanto, a vehicle that was launched in the second half of 2012. At that time everybody felt that the Quanto was launched in a hurry and was not really a well thought out model. The vehicle from all angles shared an uncanny resemblance with the Xylo. Now what the Mahindras have done is that they have aggressively restyled the front end of the Quanto, made it sit on a new  generation platform, tweaked the interiors a bit and patted down a bit of the rear and have called it the NuvoSport. It’s a compact SUV that still brings back memories of the Quanto but definitely has radical design elements and features to take on the modern world.