Tata Safari vs Mahindra XUV700 | FWD vs AWD | 6-seater SUV comparo | evo India

It's the battle of the Indian titans -- Tata Safari vs Mahindra XUV700. Both 6-seater SUVs are loaded to the gills with features, have powerful engines, and offer plenty of space. The Safari now in its facelifted avatar, is miles ahead of its predecessor and competes quite fiercely with the XUV700. Features aside, the ace up XUV's sleeve is it more powerful engine and AWD. But is that sufficient to make it a better six-seater SUV amongst the two? Aatish Mishra finds out in this comparo!

Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:31 Mahindra Safari XUV700 AWD Off-roading
3:11 Tata Safari Off-roading
5:31 Tata Safari Styling
6:26 Mahindra XUV700 Styling
6:54 Tata Safari Interiors
8:26 Mahindra XUV700 Interiors
9:22 Tata Safari Features
9:48 Tata Safari Second Row Seating
10:17 Mahindra XUV700 Second Row Seating
10:52 Mahindra XUV700 Third Row Space
11:05 Tata Safari Third Row Space
11:19 Bootspace
11:35 Tata Safari Engine
12:28 Tata Safari Refinement
14:14 Mahindra XUV700 Engine
16:57 Tata Safari Ride & Handling
19:09 Mahindra XUV700 Ride & Handling
21:26 Tata Safari v Mahindra XUV700 Price & Verdict

#evoIndia

[evoIndia]

What would your pick be? The Tata Safari or the Mahindra XUV700?

[harshaokin]

Honestly most people crying about lack of AWD in the safari are never even gonna buy one if it did have AWD. maybe a handful of them might. But that's all. As a business, it doesn't make sense for Tata Motors to make keyboard warriors happy. That's the simple truth

[sherrysharad]

If only Tata could realise that quality control and aftersales matters. 😓

[saswatmishra]

XUV 700 also has cheaper spares and service costs compared to Safari/Harrier, so it also helps in having more resale value.

[joydiptasarkar]

That "700 reasons" plug-in....smooth.
Loved your comparison. Keep it up.

[parthbarad]

There is an error on the screen it shows no paddle shifters on safari instead of 700 after 15:13

[lplszwe]

I wish they had a car with xuv700's engine and interior with safari's exterior 😊

[ArunMuralidhar]

New safari is so classy . Love it on the looks . Yeah but XUV is still a better car 😀

[cardevta]

Suspension of xuv700 is very noisy in comparison of safari....interior space management of safari is better than xuv700 despite having shorter wheelbase....xuv700 has only one advantage over safari and that is the engine and power output....interior of safari feels a lot premium than xuv700 ....road presence of safari is also too good with 19 inch wheels ....raw power of mahindra is on another level and even can put fortuner to shame in performance....

[vijaytheghost]

Simple


Buy Tata Safari if you want more features, bigger touchscreen and spend more time in service centre

Buy Xuv 700 if you like performance, AWD and few bearable software glitches

[manuatradiants]

I am from Munsiyari village in Pithoragarh (Uttarakhand). We have XUV 700 (AWD) for 1.5 years now. I think XUV is still not an off-roader. Maybe Scorpio-N is a better choice for someone who does offroading. If someone is stuck in snow, he/she will need chains with low tyre pressure. That's what everybody does in hills. Very less local ppl drive AWD or 4X4 in Uttarakhand. Several tourists get stuck in Snow in their 4X4 Thar etc every other day specially in winters. If I get an option now to select between Safari and XUV, I will choose to return XUV to go with Safari.

[alburaq]

I'm surprised most of the automotive journalists don't mention anything about the multi link suspension or FSD of XUV.
It makes a big difference but nobody talks about it.
Makes me think do these guys even know what they're doing. I doubt their competence.

[grgrn]

The amount of people complaining about tata safari's issues in all the automotive forums I really hold back on even going for a test drive. It is safer to just be a viewer on the road. Comparatively Mahindra XUV 700 seems to have much lesser issues even though it does have a few.

[mercedesbenz]

Mahindra anyday.
We have been having Mahindras since the 1990s.

[SACHINACHARYA]

Safari's alloy wheels are infact Sierra.Ev (2023 Auto expo) concept's alloys.

[ashwinn_nair]

Missed opportunity for tata .. they could have really made safari the best this time. They worked on everything else except for the engine, transmission and panel gaps and awd capability .. This time they could have really made Safari worthy of it's name but they didn't.

[TheLostRoamer.]

Nice review👍🏻 I have a 2023 Safari XT+ dark edition, not a facelift version. I had many reasons to buy it like Comfort, no suspension noise, built quality, and power doesn’t matter as we can’t drive above 120kmph on our highways.
For all AWD people: Most of them even don’t go to High-terrain areas or do offroading.
NOTE: You will see XUV700 in Cabs but not a SAFARI🙌🏻 and it matters.🔥

[ketanpol]

First XUV 700, Scorpio Classic, Safari Storme more close to heart...Back then engineers made Cars which were articulate.

Nowadays its just touchscreen showcases...!!

[drshriharirao]

Great review Aatish..👍🏻but I feel for 3rd row space and comfort I feel safari is the one to go for..!

[avisrivastava]

Xuv's facelift would be even better. ❤