About Mahindra nuvosport

The NuvoSport’s new face is unique, aggressive and quite a head turner. The revised front bumper has sporty looking flares and the slim grille design works well with the new headlamps. The slim light above the headlamps is an LED DRL that looks good and serves it’s function well. Thankfully, the hood scoop isn’t cosmetic and it feeds cool air to the top mounted intercooler.

The NuvoSport’s face is its most flattering angle. There’s a new air of ruggedness over the Quanto through black side cladding while the metal footboards continue. The windows are huge and make for an airy cabin but also make the NuvoSport look unproportionately tall. All models now run on 16-inch wheels wrapped in 215 section rubber, either MRF Wanderers or Apollo Apterra while the higher models get smart looking alloy wheels. Like the side profile, the rear is familiar but with handsome new lamps, a fresh spoiler, spare wheel cover and a redesigned bumper.

The cabin uses a similar themed dashboard that houses those eye shaped central air-vents. The orange backlit display atop the vents is carried over and it shows both inside and out temperatures, time, gear position and speed. It’s a nice touch but not very clear in direct sunlight. Below the airvents is a revised layout that houses a new, 6.2-inch Kenwood touchscreen infotainment system. The unit has good resolution but the angle it is installed in the dashboard makes it hard to read from both the driver and passenger’s point of view. Connectivity options are good and there’s a choice of AUX, USB, Bluetooth and two power sockets, one in the dashboard and one for rear passengers. The aircon controls are new, classier looking knobs and there’s a fresh steering wheel with audio and cruise control buttons for the top model. Also new, is the instrument cluster that includes an interesting feature that tells you how many kilometres the car has been running with the aircon running.

The engine is new, lighter, offers more performance and more efficient. We find this strange as the engine appears identical, both on paper and in images. Aside from the name change, the three-cylinder 1.5-litre engine produces identical numbers – 100PS@3,750rpm and 240Nm from 1,600rpm to 2,800rpm. Claimed efficiency has increased ever so slightly, by 0.25kmpl to 17.45kmpl.