Mahindra Press Release Full of Holes

Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd hastily issued a press release on Saturday in response to the Mahindra Planet post from Thursday regarding the ...

Revealed: US Mahindra Pickups to be Made in Alabama Beginning 2012

Mahindra Genio DC (TR40 US) 2013 Mahindra TR20 and TR40 Mahindra Planet has been working to confirm that a 2-million-square-foot facility in...

Best of Mahindra Planet: Roasting The Old Scout Chestnut

We’ve dug back into the dark and musty MP archives again (located deep inside a western Kentucky cave under ancient Native American burial...

Mahindra XUV500 Launches

Notice: Mahindra Planet will refrain from the usual flow of low key, snark-filled comments about Mahindra in the US in the following post ...

Diesel Ford Ranger and Chevy Colorado Ready for 2012 Release

2012 Ford “Global” Ranger This is Ford’s new mid-size pickup which will be available pretty much everywhere in the world except the US as ...

2010 Revisited: “You Just Have to Be in the US”

Ah, January of 2010.   The year held so much promise.   A year full of hope; filled with gilded daydreams of Indian pickup trucks roaming ...

Mahindra to Lose EPA Approval in 2011

It’s hard to believe it was over a year ago that Mahindra finally announced that it had completed the physical requirements to obtain EPA ...

Official: W201 is Mahindra XUV500, December Launch Expected

Mahindra announced today that its long anticipated global SUV will be called the XUV500 (according to the press release, pronounced XUV ‘5...

Ouch: Americans More Willing to Buy Chinese Cars than Indian Cars

Remember the Hyundai Excel ?  Surely Hyundai hopes that you have long forgotten that sad first chapter of their US success story.  It’s take...

Fear and Loathing in Alpharetta

  That deafening silence you hear is the sound of Mahindra and Global Vehicles making preparations for their upcoming arbitration in Augu...

Mahindra Class Action Gains Momentum, Dealers File Complaints at State Level

A lawsuit initiated by St. Louis-based would-be Mahindra pickup dealer Jerry Ackerman, has piqued the interest of 45 other expectant deale...

Opinion: Ram Ridgeline?

2002 Dodge M80 Concept Back in 2002 Dodge came out with the M80 Concept .   The exercise was to see if there was demand for a fairly light...

India to Require Diesel Vehicles to Average 46.8 mpg by 2015

The Indian government is set to impose stringent CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) requirements on Indian automakers within the next yea...

M&M Open to Using Ssangyong Engines in Mahindra Vehicles

Ssangyong Rexton (courtesy AsianCarsBlog.com) Pawan Goenka, President Automotive and Farm Sectors, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd, has recent...

US Dealer Starts Class Action Against GV, Mahindra

Developing story: A dealer signed on as a Mahindra pickup and SUV franchise has filed a federal class action lawsuit against both US based d...

Ssangyong KEV2 Concept Unveiled, 2013 Production Possible

Mahindra-owned, Ssangyong Motor Company, took the cover off its pure electric KEV2 CUV concept late last week at the 2011 Seoul Motor Show...

April Fools Day Revisited

2011 Ford Harley-Davidson Ranger via PickupTrucks.com   PickupTrucks.com ’s “Ford to Continue US Ranger Production Indefinitely” article f...

Next Generation Chevy Colorado Revealed: Wow

  Chevy Colorado via PickupTrucks.com I generally have a preference for GM’s current styling direction, but the photos released yesterday of...

Spring 2011 Launch for Mahindra W201 on Track

Mahindra W210 Artist's Rendering IndianCarsBikes is reporting that Mahindra dealers in India are preparing for an April or May release ...

U.S. to see Ssangyong SUV’s in 2-5 Years

 Ssangyong SUT 1 Concept via PickupTrucks.com/Jalopnik.com  Ssangyong Motor Co. Chairman, Yoo Lee, has told Automotive News ( via AutoWee...

Jewels of Geneva: Ssangyong SUT 1 and Ford Ranger Wildtrak

The 2011 Geneva Motor Show is underway and it sure seems like the Europeans are getting a glimpse of far cooler machinery (both in concept a...