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Mahindra & Mahindra throws open state-of-the art car testing track

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Mahindra & Mahindra on Saturday inaugurated its new state-of-the-art SUV Proving Track at Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu built over a sprawling 454 acres with an investment of Rs 510 crore. </p>
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Built by L&T and designed by Spain’s Institute for Applied Automotive Research, the new facility will be used by Mahindra Engineers to test the SUV products in a variety of terrains and simulations. The carmaker claims that this proving track is one of the biggest and most comprehensive automotive proving ground owned by an automobile company in India.</p>
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Commenting on the inauguration of the facility, Veluswamy R., Chief of Global Product Development Automotive Division, Mahindra & Mahindra, said, "The brand-new proving track compliments and completes MRV where our products are conceived. It's a driver's paradise designed to shape powerful and desirable machines."</p>
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It took Mahindra three years to complete this track. It has 20 purpose-built tracks, which include a Zero per cent slope High-Speed test track with 43.7-degree parabolic banking, and a speed limit of 200 kmph, a circular dynamic platform that spans 250 meters in diameter, a 4X4 Adventure track that has over 25 obstacles for testing 4X4 and AWD vehicles and a Braking pad with 6 different surfaces, and dry and wet tracks are built to test braking, ABS, ESP and TCS, among several others. All these tracks are fully operational now.</p>

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