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You've got five days off, an off-road van and a Mahindra Pik up. What do you do? Not one to waste a long weekend, forty-three-year-old electrical lines person Michael O'Brien knew the answer without even thinking about it. He and his partner Tracey boosted off on a quick, 2300-kilometre round trip to Queensland’s famous Carnarvon National Park in Central Queensland.
When Paul Johnson isn’t pounding out 1000-kilometre weeks in his Mahindra Pik-Up for his cleaning business Sparklean, you might just find him over at Moreton Island on the tailgate, watching the sunset with a brown trout in hand. The 45 year-old from North Lakes bought his styleside Pik-Up brand new in 2012, and says it’s not only been the most economical vehicle he’s ever had, but it still sounds the same as the day he bought it.
When Michael Butler, owner of television production company Sacred Oz Productions decided to return to Cape York on an important film trip, he knew the vehicle he wanted to take was a Mahindra Pik-up. How did he know? Because it’s the second time he’s chosen a Mahindra Pik-Up to tackle Australia's toughest and most iconic four-wheel driving odyssey.
Home maintenance and school groundsman Charlie Howlett based in Strathpine, QLD reckons his Mahindra Genio could teach the other tradesman's utes a lesson. A carpenter by trade, sixty-four-year-old Charlie is also a boat-builder who, in his spare time runs his own house maintenance business. So when it came time to buy a new Ute, he needed one that could cope with any test.
When 43-year-old electrical lines person Michael O'Brien from Deception Bay in North Brisbane found a low-mileage Mahindra Pik-Up at the end of 2012, no-one guessed where the relationship would lead. The answer came in September 2013, when the Queenslander took his Pik-Up on an epic, four-week road trip taking in (among numerous other destinations) Adelaide, Alice Springs, Mount Isa and a total of 9900 kilometres in distance!
What better test for your new Mahindra XUV500 than a run from Moranbah in Central Queensland down to the Snowy Mountains, with the family aboard, and with a pop-up caravan in tow? That’s the challenge Brett Ogden, window tinter/stay at home Dad from Moranbah in Central Queensland chose to give his Mahindra XUV500 and the results of the approximately 4000-kilometre haul were nothing if not surprising.
A nice company car is one thing, but a company car that allows you to take the family out for a weekend of real four-wheel drive exploring is something else.
Townsville’s Pat Smith considers his XUV500 his best Mahindra yet, and as he’s now on his fourth one, he’s something of an authority on the subject.
