For those who are in great anticipation of the Mini version of Mahindra Xylo, here is good news. Mahindra has through a press release reportedly said that the Mahindra’s compact SUV will be hitting roads this festive season. Besides, Ssangyong Rexton and REVA NXR displayed at the New Delhi Auto Expo will also launched at the same time. So it will be bumper Diwali from Mahindra’s side. However for those who were anticipating the Mahindra Xylo Mini in January or April 2012, it will be a little longer wait.

Since the news flashed that Mahindra is in the process of bringing in a compact SUV based on Mahindra Xylo and it will be known as Mahindra Xylo Mini, the Indian car market was afoot to welcome it as early as possible. However, the present announcement has given a pause to all speculations.

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The under four meter Mahindra Xylo Mini will be taking advantage of the tax reduction applicable on this size cars and Mahindra hopes to transfer the benefits to the public by reducing the Xylo Mini price. All the steps taken by Mahindra seem to be in line with the launch of Mahindra Xylo Mini. Recently there is a Mahindra Xylo facelift and lately there were speculations that the homegrown SUV maker will be coming up with Mahindra Xylo 4 wheel drive version. Thus with the Mahindra four wheel drive version in place, Mahindra will have to then just cut the size of Xylo and the new Mahindra Xylo Mini compact SUV will be ready for a roll out.

It is said that there has been a significant rise in the demand for SUVs world over and in India as well and inline with this reflection, car companies such as Ford have already decided to capture the market. Ford has unveiled the Ford Ecosport compact SUV for India and the Premier Rio is already the lone player presently in the India compact SUV market.