2025 Mahindra 3XO AX5L SUV from $23,490 Driveaway @ Mahindra

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Officially on sale from July 4 with an introductory price of $23,490 drive-away until August 31, 2025, the XUV 3XO is Australia’s cheapest SUV and comes in two model grades

It's backed by a seven-year/150,000km warranty including roadside assistance, and Mahindra has also announced an additional capped-price servicing package for 3XO customers. 

This entry-level 3XO AX5L without metallic paint could be purchased, registered and serviced for six years from $25,484 - CarExpert

Features:
Black Cloth Seats
Level 2 Advanced Driver Assistance Systems 26.03 cm HD Infotainment
26.03cm Digital Cluster Screen
Wireless Android Auto & Apple CarPlay
16” Diamond Cut Alloy Wheels
Dual Zone Climate Control
Rear View Camera
Passive Keyless Entry
Push Button Start
Leather Steering Wheel & Gear Knob
Tyre Pressure Monitoring System
Electric Foldable ORVM
Height Adjustable Drivers Seat
Rear Armrest with Cup Holder
Auto Headlights & Auto Wipers
Rear Wiper & Washer
Roof Rails & Rear Spoiler
Rear Defogger
6 Speakers
Adjustable Headrest for Rear Middle Passenger
Drivers Single-Touch-Up Power Window Electronic Parking Brake with Auto Hold

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Comments

  • +47

    Cheap as chips

    • +206

      Fresh from the Delhi

        • +40

          Yeah nah it doesn't 😂

        • +35

          Should have gone to specsavers!

        • +4

          I neg you. And it feels soooo goood

        • +2

          You are collecting negs on car threads like infinity stones. Why love for Mahindra what happened to 'used German engineering'?

      • Wow I don't think I've seen a comment before with nearly 200 upvotes? Is this close to a record?

        • I don't think it's a record, but it's certainly a record for me! 😄 Forum comments often get close to 200 votes, not so common in the deal section.

    • +30

      Though initial reviews are promising, for anyone looking towards purchasing this vehicle I would suggest waiting until:

      • ANCAP has been completed and results available

      • pending above, see if there are further refreshes to this model to address any ANCAP concerns (which may also push prices up in addition to the post-launch price increase)

      CarExpert : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01zSdRbbONc

      The Right Car? : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rK8TOJYtAc

      Alternatively, consider the usual used car prices of models above as there are so many unknowns at this point in time.

      • +2

        A post from used car salesman ! .. lol

        • +21

          if Musk was here

          If Musk was here, we wouldn't have air traffic controllers. Nobody with a brain is citing him these days.

        • +3

          Good old survivorship bias.

          If you want to buy a shitty car that is less safe, you need ANCAP to tell you which cars are shitty (and for the market to make them cheap because no one wants to buy unsafe cars).

          And year differences are clear. No one thinks a 10 year old 5* is safer than a new 3 or 4*.

          • +2

            @loksmack: That's the problem, you see, a car that does not get 5* is perceived as "unsafe" even though it meets all ADR requirements to be sold in the country.

            A 3* with all the gizmos and airbags and what not, which may be shitty for 2025, but is still much safer that compared to the 50% of cars that are 10 years or older currently on the roads.

            But anyway, why a global set of goals should be better than a standalone ANCAP

            https://www.drive.com.au/news/mitsubishi-australia-calls-for…

            • +2

              @TheMindsetTraveller: Yeah, I'd preder a car not get a 5, too much annoying crap for the little bit of driving I do, living here in a small rurual village in Tassie, I don't need to drive much at all.

        • let me drive a zero star rated car.

          SPOT ON!!

          They idea is to make us pay as much as possible (more GST!!) for the simplest car.

        • +1

          ANCAP is irrelevant body

          I'd agree. Is there any data that suggests that anything they've done in the past 5-10 years has been beneficial.

          this government body would have been disbanded

          ANCAP isn't a government body and is non-regulatory. If the car manufacturers were smart they'd refuse to submit their vehicles for testing.

    • +3

      anyone remember the ad for the first aussie daewoo?

      it was such a perfect copy of the vauxhall pattern they bought for their first release it even had vauxhall badges

      the ad said it’s so cheap you can drive it for 5 years and throw it away

      good times

      they were really good cars, actually

      • +1

        They were surprisingly good. I used to do neutral drive rollbacks many times and never had any issues.

        Not sure how the new owner went with it 🤦

        • +1

          handled like a gokart!

          i really enjoyed mine, miss it every now and then

      • +2

        Wow Daewoo! Haven't heard so long. Recall my memories in the past.

  • +122

    Wouldn't buy one but happy to have competition driving prices down and people who just need cheap ride to work.

    • +36

      /me looks out his window at you from his Getz 2006…

      • +2

        This. Had a 2010 Getz and it was rock solid.

        • -1

          god, i remember working for a company more than 10yrs ago who uses hundai getz things as messenger type cars and they were getting for kia rios

      • With all crypto loss, I can now only afford 2003 getz

        • How much did you lose…?

        • +3

          What crypto loss?

          BTC is literally around 1% under it's all time high (of almost $170,000 AUD)

          • +1

            @ItsMeAgro: His loss is probably around 1% ;)

            • +2

              @Thrift: Haha nothing to do with btc, its meme coin that wrecks people

      • -2

        Now that's a good car

        • Especailly the full electric version, if you were able to snag one back in the day

      • +1

        Try buying a good used one with relatively low kilometres and service history now , tough ask⁉️

    • +7

      Cheap ride to work??? Did you forget there's a whole group of people out there who consider $5k too much for a car?

      • +17

        Yeah, but this will become an ever cheaper used car in future. If new stuff isn't entering market prices go up.

      • -2

        Yes, there are. They are living in the past. Must we all live there?

      • +1

        Just don't be poor. Problem solved.

        • +1

          Thanks Joe.

          I can’t afford to drive to work anyway.

      • +2

        My parter went to a closer job and owed an escooter to get to her work back when we lived on the Gold Coast, i saw how great they were and got one as well.

        We ended up selling the car and didn't need one for many years, i thought we'd rent one for occasional use but never needed it (car share, escoot, pushie, bus, tram and train) We rented the 2x car spaces out and that more then covered body corporate fees. We sold our apartment and moved after Covid, GC went back to being the GC . Now in Tassie, alad need a car again as we drive about 5000km a year and it is still the 1980s down here transport wise..

        • +1

          You had a good thing going and you moved out?

    • +1

      Wouldn't buy one but happy to have competition driving prices down

      If nobody buy won't have any competition 😞

      • -3

        somebody is going to buy it

        there's enough fools out there

        • Im Here :) Have not yet but will have a look on Saturday and see how much I hate it.

    • +5

      Bus = cheap ride to work

      • +4

        Good reminder for the 6% of Australians who live less than 25 mins walk from a busstop frequented more than twice an hour.

        • Well… at times some planning can help. Not everything can be super convenient and on demand.

    • +14

      Don't know. But I know that Germans buy German cars.

      • I heard it is compulsory for Aldi managers to drive German cars

        • +32

          My friend work for Aldi. When she introduced herself to one of my friends, he thought she said Audi. All night he was jealous at all the cars she got to drive. Didn't have the heart to tell him, she was stacking shelves.

          • -4

            @31mop: Just like jealous 'usual' forum folks, even if I said many times I drive a 'humble' VAG car!

            • +5

              @[Deactivated]: They are probably sorry for you and your VAG
              (the service costs)

                • +10

                  @[Deactivated]: Yeah bullshit.

                  • +2

                    @smartazz104: No it's true. @SYLTB has one of those old Beetles with the engine in the rear, so technically it's a not a bonnet, just an engine compartment cover.

                • +1

                  @[Deactivated]:

                  500.000kms, I have not opened the bonnet yet

                  500,000kms on your "vag", eh? Just a moment.

                  Runs some simple calculations with an old Casio pocket calculator

                  Ok, so how did you do the 8 engine replacements without opening the bonnet?

                • +1

                  @[Deactivated]: You haven't opened your bonnet, but your mechanic has.

          • +1

            @31mop: aldi shelf stackers also work the till and manage staff

      • +2

        And Aussies bought Holden before they shat down the local factories.

        • +1

          Shat down?

          • +5

            @dosada: He said what he said.

            • @smartazz104: They have made holdon (fake Opel) bankrupt, now left nothing but crap jap/kor/chin cars. They are just jealous of German cars! I am really sick of slapping their necks with this reality! ;)

    • +47

      Chinese definitely do NOT avoid Chinese brand cars. About 100% (so far) of the Didi I've ridden where the driver was mainland Chinese was in a BYD.

      • +7

        And Zeekar

      • New ones right? They definitely avoided older Chinese cars.

      • Although that may be true, the ones that have money to splash that i know of, do avoid Chinese cars, so really depends on your financial situation

    • +3

      I work wit a few Indians and asked them exactly this . Answer is "Only if they can't afford a Toyota "

      • -7

        U must be in low paying job!!

      • -2

        this is a lie. Toyota in terms of technical and technological improvements have been at a stand still for the past 5 years. Every other brand manufacturer has practically caught up or if not, have surpassed them. People buy Toyotas now due to the reliability but mainly due to the resale price as others upgrade elsewhere. I'd give it another 5 years until other brands currently out in the markets resale prices match before they slowly take over the Toyota market (which is already being done).

        • +5

          Ans another 5 after that…. and another 5 after that

          • @U30004: Yep, as more and more superior competition enters the market more and more :)

      • -1

        yes ironically aussies end up avoiding aussie cars

        i think there's 'chinese' and then there's 'chinese'

        if they are doing didi then its commerical decision like how my electrican has a hi-ace but he gives all his hires the ldv van

        most of the chinese i've met are rich enough they wouldnt drive a chinese car… why would i get away from china and still drive that dreck???

        • +18

          Because times have changed. China is now world's largest car market and Ford's CEO Jim Farley famously drove a Xiaomi SU7 and didn't want to give it up. In fact he just did another interview recently on the existential threat the Chinese brands present to legacy autos.

          • +1

            @MkVIGTI: yeah i suppose the rich chinese will just be blissfully unaware in their $100k mercedes suvs…. poor bastards…

            i would also take anyjthing and American auto exec says with a grain of salt since chinese brands cannot be sold in the US… so what are they worried about?

            • +6

              @tonyjzx:

              so what are they worried about?

              The world is a lot bigger than the US. Global companies like Ford wants to partner with the Chinese auto makers and increase their profit margin. In reality they've already got decades of partnership experiences with Chinese OEMs. Increasing profit is the main thing CEOs care about.

            • +8

              @tonyjzx: Hahaha the funny thing is Merc/Audi/BMW are now apparently struggling in the Chinese market with their market share being eroded by brands like Li Auto/Aito etc. Even Porsche is tanking over there so the struggle is real.

              In terms of competition the American brands would still need to compete with the Chinese brands for the rest of the globe. And with Trump in power who knows when he'll send a social post and remove the tariffs altogether?

              It's also not like only the American execs are concerned. The last Stellantis CEO has asked for protectionist measures quite a few times and they're now also partnering up with Leapmotor. And then you have Toyota licencing BYD's BEV/PHEV tech, Honda working with Huawei/Momenta, Mazda with their Changan partnership on their EVs, VW's partnership with Xpeng, you get the point.

              • @MkVIGTI: Practically every car manufacturer is struggling against the chinese market. Toyota, Volkswagen have seen their sales plumet. Its quite simple, if you ask a 20-35 year old what car theyd buy for $60,000 in todays market, the answer is going to be a Tesla or a BYD. Nothing else. Now thing of brands like Xiaomi which is producing cars also but havent hit the Australian market… thats when the bloodbath begins for brands other than Tesla, BYD and Xiaomi. Japanese brands making the late EV switch over practically destroyed themselves and we'll see the extensive damage 5 years from now. European brands made the switch early so I'd say theyre still a risk but not as much as Xiaomi.

              • @MkVIGTI: It's mind-blowing that the holy Trinity of BMW Merc Audi is no longer aspirational to the Gen YZ Chinese in the span of 10 years

          • @MkVIGTI: All true. But they also still make a lot of crap.

      • +1

        I can confirm that Chinese people with money tend to not buy a Chinese brand of car. They stick with Japanese or German depending on their budget. Most of the cars sold in China are made there anyway, even Toyota and Mercedes. The Chinese characters on the back tell you which joint-venture factory it was made in.

    • +17

      Xiaomi yu7 had 300,000 pre-orders in an hour.

      • +7

        Doesn't mean they're good

        • +5

          Yea but that's equivalent to the total car sales in all of Australia for next 3+ months

        • +3

          my 2018 robot vacuum has 51 square km's on it, id say they are one of the better chinese brands.

    • +10

      I saw an Indian driving a Mahindra the other day so yes they do.

      • -7

        How do you know they were Indian?

        • +26

          The feather head dress?

          • +10

            @SetTheFaqUp: I have a question for you. Uber driving is open to everyone with a license. Why do you think only Asians do Uber and Didi? Because they are hard working and know how to make some quick buck out of their free time or while they are in between jobs. While the lazy a*ses who think driving Uber is below them and would rather pay 30% markup on menu prices and order delivery from a restaurant 5 mins drive away and make fun of the very person delivering your food while taking dole money saying they can't find a job.

            • @rvsure: Does Uber pay better than the dole?

              • @smartazz104: I have no idea as I have never done Uber but definitely there is respect in earning your own money even if it's peanuts than taking dole.

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