{"id":7182,"date":"2021-07-07T21:44:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T16:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xbhp.com\/machines\/?p=7182"},"modified":"2021-07-07T21:48:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T16:18:09","slug":"snow-drive-with-mahindra-thar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xbhp.com\/machines\/snow-drive-with-mahindra-thar\/","title":{"rendered":"To nature’s ice-cream shop: Snow drive with the Mahindra Thar!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What do you do when you have one of India\u2019s most capable and versatile machines in your hands? You flaunt it, you pose with it, and when you are done doing that, you push the envelope and take it to places you\u2019d not go otherwise. Or you let it take you places you\u2019d not go otherwise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is what happened with us this winter when we had the all-new Mahindra Thar in our garage for a few days. Ever since its launch, it has been such an attention magnet and one of the most desirable machines on 4 wheels in the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is 4×4, has 148 bhp of power, 320 Nm of torque and above all, it has Mahindra DNA. Those make a very capable all-rounder. And it looks the part as well. We flaunted it around the city, posed with it to our heart\u2019s content but somehow, it wasn\u2019t enough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, we woke up one fine day and found it taking us in a Westerly direction and when the sun set, we were in the Thar desert, near Jaisalmer in Rajasthan. There, we found the Thar jumping around with joy like a kid going to its grandparents home during summer vacations. It really liked being in the place where it got its name from.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But when it came back, like a stubborn kid, it wasn\u2019t content with that only and started pushing to go for a short drive to have ice cream. Not a bad idea, we obliged, and here we were, on the way to the highest of the Himalayas, right after a drive to the desert, to have, well, a frozen dessert! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And because Thar would make do with nothing short of extreme, the destination for this drive was Chitkul, a beautiful village in Himachal Pradesh. It also happens to be the last village on the Indo-China border. The odds of reaching this village were very few as we knew that the road leading to it was still blocked by fresh snowfalls and we would be very lucky if we could go anywhere near it. But as they say, it is the journey that matters and not the destination.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a video from this adventure of ours! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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