At $17,900, Will This 2019 Mahindra Roxor Rock Your World?

While today's Nice Price aliases No Dice Roxor was primitively classified arsenic an "off-highway side-by-side," its seller claims it to beryllium thoroughfare ineligible and says that they "drive it everywhere. Let's spot what this Indian off-roader mightiness reasonably spell for moreover if it doesn't spell far.

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In summation to offering a statement of compact to mid-sized tractors, M&M has, since 1947, built a licensed type of nan Willys CJ5 Jeep. Today, it's being sold successful nan U.S. and Canada arsenic nan Mahindra Roxor, an off-road workplace and back-country conveyance successful a people commonly referred to arsenic a Side by Side UTV, owed to its left/right tandem seating positions. For nan North American market, Mahindra assembles nan Roxor successful a mill successful Auburn Hills, Michigan, trading them present on pinch nan company's tractors. The Roxor was introduced present successful 2018 and has since proven celebrated capable that it now moreover has its own fan club. Not truthful large a instrumentality was Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, which sued M&M successful 2018 claiming patent infringement complete nan Roxor's Jeep-aping design. FCA won nan suit, causing Mahindra to redesign nan Roxor's chemoreceptor successful 2021 to look acold little Jeepy.

While primitively intended arsenic an off-roader, and lacking nan emissions and information instrumentality required of immoderate modern street-driven car aliases truck, this 2019 Mahindra Roxor is claimed by its seller to beryllium roadworthy and licensed for on-road use. It does look to person each nan basal lighting and spot belts, but arsenic acold arsenic keeping its occupants from dying, that's beautiful overmuch arsenic acold arsenic it's consenting to go.

The important parts commencement pinch a 2.7-liter direct-injected turbo-diesel 4 nether nan hood. That produces 55 horsepower and 144 pound-feet of torque, and is paired pinch a GM-sourced six-speed automatic transmission. Behind that is simply a two-speed transportation lawsuit and leaf-sprung unrecorded axles astatine nan beforehand and nan back. A very basal vehicle, there's nary proviso made for a compartment heater, and nan floors are thing much than alloy changeable pinch furniture liner. There are cup holders betwixt nan seats, however. This America, aft all.

In summation to nan cup holders, nan seller of this Roxor has added an aftermarket windshield pinch DOT solid and a brace of rear seats that fold down erstwhile not successful usage and offer, yep, moreover much cup holders. From nan factory, nan Roxor comes without a windscreen unless chosen arsenic nan full-enclosed All-Weather model. With its wiper-less windshield and Bimini top, this is still small much than a fair-weather friend, but it should beryllium sufficiently equipped for getting astir municipality erstwhile there's nary rainfall successful nan forecast. With its apical velocity factory-limited to 55 mph, astir municipality is astir apt arsenic acold arsenic anyone would want to task successful it.

According to nan ad, nan Roxor is for illustration caller and comes pinch a caller battery, decent tires, and a car cover. So far, it has done 2,900 miles and looks beautiful cleanable some wrong and out. Of course, I could person conscionable said retired since there's not really an successful connected this UTV.

New, a Roxor will group you backmost astir $23,000 earlier adding immoderate accoutrements for illustration nan windscreen and rear seats. A caller 1 will besides request to beryllium modded to beryllium made street-worthy, thing this 1 is already claimed to be. In contrast, this makes nan $17,900 asking value of this 1 an intriguing opportunity. But is it a deal?

What's your return connected this claimed street-legal Side by Side and that $17,900 value tag? Does that consciousness adjacent fixed nan ups and extras? Or does that value inhibit this Mahindra's chances?

You decide!

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