The Supreme Court's ban on registration of diesel vehicle with engine capacity above 2000cc in Delhi and NCR was a major setback for auto manufacturers like Mahindra and Mahindra, who majorly sell diesel cars. While the other manufactures were working on appeals to revoke this decision, Mahindra became proactive and came out with a lower capacity diesel engine for the region.
What's commendable here is the fact that despite being of lesser cubic capacity, the new 1.99-litre mHawk engine produces the same power output as the 2.2-litre mHawk motor. The new oil burner continues to churns out the same 140bhp, while developing slightly lesser torque of 320Nm. The new automatic transmission is an Aisin-sourced 6-speed torque convertor that is truly an efficient unit, something that we experienced in our review as well.
In addition customer can also choose the tried and tested 6-speed manual gearbox that is already available with the engine. That said, unlike in the regular model, the 1.99-litre version's W10 AT variant is offered only with front-wheel drive (FWD) setup as of now. Currently none of the 1.99-litre variants comes in all-wheel drive (AWD) format. Detailed specification and priced of the variants have been updated on Mahindra XUV500's official website.
