Mahindra Armada

Mahindra Armada

Mahindra & Mahindra

Production1993–2001
Engine2112 cc List of PSA engines#XD / XDP 4.90 Diesel engine / diesel Inline-four engine / I4 / 2498 cc List of PSA engines#XD / XD3P diesel I4

The Mahindra Armada is one of 22 Mahindra & Mahindra models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 1993. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Mahindra Armada properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1990s were the decade of refinement — airbags and ABS became universal, Japanese build quality set the world standard, and the modern SUV segment was effectively invented. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz E-Class, the Renault Renault Twingo, the Audi AG Audi A4 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Mahindra Armada reads like this: the record lists its engine as 2112 cc List of PSA engines#XD / XDP 4.90 Diesel engine / diesel Inline-four engine / I4 / 2498 cc List of PSA engines#XD / XD3P diesel I4; kerb weight is recorded at 2WD: 1465 kg / 4WD: 1580 kg; drive goes through 4-speed all-synchromesh manual, optional 4-wheel drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Mahindra & Mahindra story

Within Mahindra & Mahindra's own catalogue the Mahindra Armada sits alongside the Mahindra Axe, the Mahindra BE 6, the Mahindra Bolero, the Mahindra Bolero Camper. The record names the MM775 as its predecessor and the Mahindra Maxx as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

Why concepts and prototypes are in the library

Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Mahindra Armada costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.

Specifications

Transmission4-speed all-synchromesh manual, optional 4-wheel drive
Body style4-door SUV
Kerb weight2WD: 1465 kg / 4WD: 1580 kg
Wheelbase2680 mm
PredecessorMM775
SuccessorMahindra Maxx
Catalogue IDQ17071159

Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.

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What it costs to run

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