Thank you! Yes I would also like to do more fun trips again, in the moment I have to check my hard drive for old stuff not yet published. Let us hope that Corona will be soon history ...!
Hi !! I watched all your videos. They all are very informative and knowledgeable. Appreciate your way of responding comments. Inspired by u I have decided to get one such vehicle. I want a small help from u. The vehicle I am planning to purchase looks exactly like M&M Marshal but it's M&M 750 Jeep. It has 4x4 transmission. only difference what I noticed is we can fold rear door window in it but Mahindra Marshal has no such provision. Need your thoughts to know more about the vehicle. In addition previous owner has replaced it's engine with DI one. Thanks in advance. Keep in touch.
Hi back and thanks for the flowers 🤣 But of course, in fact I am not a specialist of Mahindra vehicles in any way, I am just one of the many Marshal owners who loves his jeep 😁 Afaik M&M itself experimented a lot with the bigger jeeps also before the Marshal and had lot of similarities over the time between Commander, Armada and Marshal, before the Bolero range came and the old school jeeps vanished for a while completely and were only reanimated by the way of the Thar. I get often confused seeing elderly commanders or also Armadas and not knowing exactly all the differences in the stock versions, and almost all of the elderly jeeps were somehow customized and converted into whatever else by their owners. If your vehicle is by its papers a commander it still can easily be that there is almost no optical difference to a Marshal, and if it has even the engine of a Marshal it is at the end more or less at least a kind of a a self made Marshal. About the window, afaik there were no stock Marshals with rear window which could be opened, but I am also not sure whether all Commanders have had that feature. But of course one could easily build such a window into a commander as well as into a 'true Marshal' as well as one could replace the original rear side windows which can be opened by new big windows which are made from one piece. Very recently (couple of days back) I have even seen such a vehicle myself, means a jeep with such a rear door with a window to open. Happened to drive in front of me on the Doddakamanahalli Main Road in South Bangalore. I overtook it (easily and on scooty 🤣 ) and it looked like the vehicle had been somehow prepared for a paint job and was just on the way to get that done. rgds, Robert
Yes if someone stops driving for longer time it becomes difficult to restart it. Confidence is gone, all these automatic body moves have to be retrained, and so on. I remember that very well from own experience. I had a period in life where I almost stopped totally driving a car, didn't have one and did everything by scooty only. Coming back into driving a car happened under most horrible circumstances but since then I never stopped driving except now during lockdown, when I kept the car mostly inside. Yes I totally love these Aravalli scenery. Yet definitely harsh circumstances for those living there.
Inspired by your videos I had started searching for a used Marshal/ Bolero but couldn't find one I liked. Settled for a used Safari . Bare bones base model just like I wanted it. Plan to tour the country with it.
Wow, feeling honoured that I could inspire somebody 😁 Congratulations! Something like a Scorpio or a Tata Safari is absolutely ok, much more comfort than an old Marshal could ever deliver. Touring through India in your own vehicle is absolutely amazing, I'm sure you'll going to love it!
Yes the Indian road network has improved a lot in recent years, almost everywhere in India great roads now. Yet, in Bangalore itself we have still lot of challenges, lot of roads under construction or partially blocked by 'Namma Metro' work. So the good old Bangalore Traffic Jam is still there ... ;-) Danke fürs Reinschauen!
@@kevgermany yes, still there and still spreading, sometimes even faster than covid - but that's mainly in Karnataka, in other places it is usually not so extreme ... but then you might have to cross rivers in their bed or so ;-)
Oh ja Willem, je nachdem wie es mit dem Klimawandel weitergeht, könnte es da schneller ganz genau so aussehen als uns lieb ist ...😛 Liebe Grüße aus Bangalore, Robert
Thanks a lot, and absolutely yes, patience helps! 😁😁😁 But ok, it isn't that bad, usually it takes us not even 3 full days. Mostly we start by 5am in BLR and reach any place like Udaipur or Jaisalmer two days later in the afternoon, means if we start Monday morning we are Wednesday afternoon before sunset in Jaisalmer. Or we reach Udaipur just after lunch. Standard stopovers in Satara and Vadodara on the way up North, and Vadodara and Kolhapur on the way back home. As long as there is no technical issue, that works fine, and mostly we see also a little bit of the surroundings during driving. Anyhow, I like that whole thing. It is fun, maybe also little bit of an adventure, and I only hope that all these Coronavirus restrictions can soon be withdrawn and everybody can come back to normal. Also to normal traveling 😁
Hallo Kurt ja in Europa geht es gerade winterlich her, sogar Madrid ist eingeschneit, hab ich in den Nachrichten gelesen. Vor Schnee hab ich hier aber keine Angst, die tiefsten Temperaturen der letzten Jahrzehnte lagen so bei 13-14° Celsius. Das reicht uns hier völlig aus, wir sind ja sozusagen "Winterflüchter" - mehr kalt muss nicht sein ;-) Danke fürs Reinschauen, LG, Robert
Danke fürs Reinschauen, Tim, das war auf diesem Fahrtabschnitt gar nicht so wild mit der absoluten Höhe, ich schätze mal wir haben uns da so meist zwischen 300 und 500 Metern bewegt (also Straßenhöhe, die Berge drum herum entsprechend höher). Die höchste Erhebung der Aravallis ist etwas über 1700 m, aber um die Aravallis rum ist es nicht viel über Meereshöhe. Interessante Bergkette, die riegelt sozusagen Rest-Indien von der Thar ab, also wenigstens teilweise. Wir waren da an so einem größeren Stausee (Jawai Bandh) gewesen, weil wir nach Zugvögeln Ausschau halten wollten (die waren aber wohl alle beim Einkaufen oder in der Kita, als wir dort waren) und sind von dort dann über Umwege nach Udaipur weitergefahren, mussten dabei die Aravallis also irgendwo überqueren. Das hier war noch ganz am Anfang, die Strecke kannte ich damals noch gar nicht, bin da mehr oder weniger auf gut Glück gefahren. Aber eigentlich ist das in den Aravallis fast immer genial, egal welche Strecke man ausprobiert: mit mindestens 50% Wahrscheinlichkeit ist es eine Hammer-Strecke! 😁 Irgendwann fahr ich da auch noch mal mit meiner Bullet hoch ... 😊 LG, Robert
Depending on the driver, means in my case absolutely yes! 😁😁😁 Well, joking ... the Marshal has no power steering. But the driver should have enough power to steer it. In my case even double power, since I steer in such situations with only one hand and keep the camera in the other hand ... 🤣 But in fact, power steering is totally overrated, it isn't really required in most cases. As soon as a vehicle moves, steering is always possible with more or less power. I was driving even big trucks without power steering - old school trucks didn't have such gimmicks. And as less of such gimmicks a vehicle has as less can break ... so in general I do not need to have power steering, that's just one more part to break in difficult situations and to repair in the field if something goes wrong. I love old school vehicles with focus on simplicity and reliability, that's one of the reasons I got me a Marshal and not any of these modern SUVs with all kind of electronic gimmicks and sensors and what not ... 😉
@@bangalorebobbel Absolutely right. Power steering is required mainly when you need an ease of turning vehicle when its stationary. For example, parking in a less space. However, the same can be done with manual steering with a different technique. Manual steering is a black art, feared by many and understood by few...:D Well, power assisted steering and automatic transmission vehicles have opened door for many drivers who otherwise would have found driving extremely uncomfortable on a regular basis.
Ja Tino für Fahrradfahrer wäre die natürlich Gold. Die Freude beim Hochfahren, dass es auch irgendwann wieder mal runtergehen wird, dürfte ziemlich lang anhalten ... allerdings sollte man sich da vielleicht einen schattigen Tag für die Fahrt raussuchen. Ist ja praktisch an der Ecke zur Thar-Wüste, dieses Aravalli-Gebirge, und das hier ist quasi ziemlich unten links, also ganz im Südwesten. Da ist es schon warm. Und wenn man in der prallen Sonne fahren muss, entsprechend sogar sehr warm. 😁 LG, Robert
Well, not really ... I do not have such luxurious equipment. What I do is keeping the cam in one hand (usually the right one) and driving with the other one ... 😉
@@anishchakraborty2684 Tnx and yes it takes quite some experience to feel safe 😁 But I am driving cars since 47 years, and this specific one since 16 years, so I know the limits of the car as well as the mine 😁😁🤣 And I use a very small cam, currently the Sony WX500, for such videos. So far it worked - I have made so many Mahindra Marshal videos on highways, in cities, or offroad, and all in that way only ... no problems at all. 👍👌👍
afaik is is planned that It has to pass a fitness test which is told to be more strict than what is done now already at 15 years old vehicles (and then following every five years) and costs a fortune (40.000 or so). But these are so far only spoken threats, the details are not published. So let us see what finally really comes and what will be enacted.
