Mahindra Xylo – Tough Car Made Out of State of the Art Manufacturing and Testing Processes
Mahindra & Mahindra, India’s leader in utility vehicle is known largely for its range of powerful and sturdy vehicles like Bolero and Scorpio. Mahindra intends to unveil the world class manufacturing and testing procedures which enable it to produce vehicles with long durability. Mahindra is all set for the launch of the much anticipated XYLO. The XYLO which is set for its national unveiling on January 13th 2009 is being manufactured at Mahindra’s state-of-the-art facility in Nashik.
So what is the secret behind Mahindra’s success with utility vehicles? A look into XYLO’s manufacturing and testing process will explain that.
Xylo manufacturing process – The real hero
Xylo was born out of the ideas stressing upon the importance of what can and cannot be done in a car. Mahindra Xylo challenges the limitations of every car before it.
It took 160 engineers to make Xylo the masterpiece of design and engineering that it is. These engineers were handpicked from across the country, each of them considered an expert in their field of automobile engineering.
A lot of research has gone into bringing the Mahindra Xylo from the design on papers to the roads. Every manufacturing process has been optimized to handle the car’s special requirements. The body assembly procedures are fully automated to ensure inhuman levels of precision and accuracy. The plant at Nashik houses World-Class Robotized assembly lines.
Watch the video of The World-Class Robotised Assembly for Xylo in the ‘Behind the Scenes’ section
The Testing Procedures
Mahindra likes to call Xylo as “A car that has been tested in hell.” It was put through over 1 million Kms of testing. Xylo was sent to frost bitten parts of the country like Manali, hottest regions like the deserts of Rajasthan and to the dizzy heights of Leh, all of which it could overcome with relative ease.
Global exposure
Mahindra Xylo has been tested in conditions that don’t even exist in India. As a part of its Global testing destinations, Xylo was sent to explore the expressways of South Africa where it sustained high speeds of over 160 kmph for hours. It went through specialized testing by experts in Germany and UK and has proved its Global Standards.
Virtual Ordeal
The other part of Xylo’s testing procedure involved computerized virtual worlds where Mahindra was tested for durability, reliability, Noise-Vibration-Harshness levels, crash worthiness, aerodynamics and more. Advanced computer software enabled the simulation of punishing conditions like an overload of 24 adult passengers or potholes three times the size of regular ones. Mahindra Xylo performed extremely well in these tests also.