Mahindra To Bring In New Petrol Engines For Scorpio And XUV 5OO

Pawan Goenka, executive director, Mahindra and Mahindra, told ET Auto that the company plans to launch petrol variants of the XUV5OO and the Scorpio later this year. He said, “Despite being a diesel player, we had a feeling that a diesel-only approach may not be good enough. Now, we will launch the Scorpio and XUV500 in petrol this year and in future all vehicles will have both options”.

Mahindra will most likely co-develop these engines with its Korean subsidiary, SsangYong Motor Company (SMC). The new petrol engines will most likely be in three different capacities- 1.5-litre, 1.6-litre and 2.2-litre. Speculations for the same have been floating across the industry since the start of 2016. Earlier, Mahindra had also stated that the company will be investing Rs.1000 crore over the next 2 to 3 years in order to develop new petrol engines.

As per the Supreme Court guidelines, vehicles with an engine capacity of 2,000cc and above were banned in the Delhi NCR region last year in December. The same ban has now been carried forward in Chennai recently and is expected to be implemented in eleven more cities in the near future. To tackle the ban, Mahindra & Mahindra downsized the 2.2-litre mHawk engine that was present in the XUV 5OO and the Scorpio to 1.99-litre.

Presently, the only petrol-powered car in the Indian carmaker’s stable is the KUV 1OO which uses a 1.2-litre G80 mFalcon engine. Read our review of the KUV 1OO here.

Source- ET Auto