Mahindra has been making cars and other vehicles in India for about seventy years now. Their target audience was the rural crowd so their product portfolio consisted of sturdy, stable vehicles. Ones that won’t break down into shambles upon hitting a cow. Their line of engines mainly consisted of diesel because it had more mileage. Also, diesel is cheaper than petrol.
But it’s 2020 now, the government and polar bear lovers are saying diesel is bad. Mahindra also had grown and is no longer just a tractor producer. So their engineering team came together for a chai-pe charcha and decided to make new petrol engines with complex design and ultra-modern tech. The goal was to create a car that runs on a petrol engine with the fuel efficiency of a diesel engine and they wanted it to go faster than a tractor.
The engineers and designers have come up with their most powerful engine to date called mStallion.
Mahindra’s Most Powerful Engine specifications
- 2.0 L 4-cylinder Turbo-Gasoline-Direct-Injection (TGDI)
- Power output: 190 hp
- Peak Torque: 380 Nm
The mStallion is not only the most powerful engine but also the most advanced from an engineering and design perspective. It packs a lot of features to increase efficiency and performance. Some of the finer features are:
- A smaller bore for a compact design.
- Longer strokes for better low-end torque delivery.
- State of the art technology integrating the cylinder head with exhaust manifold to absorb more heat and reduce the temperature.
That’s not all. The developers at Mahindra have put in a lot of effort to reduce friction between components to reduce pointless waste of precious fuel.
- Low tension piston pack
- Variable oil displacement pump
- 8mm bush chain to drive the ancillaries
- A compact, low friction cooling and filtration module
Further modifications were made in the Mahindra mStallion engine in order to make it BS6-compliant. So they used a 250 bar injection rail system where injectors are mounted on the side and not the top. It helps to diminish the number of droplets formed in the combustion chamber and lowers particulates. Apparently it is so effective that a Gasoline Particulate Filter (GPF) is not required.
The first model with the mStallion will come out in 2021 on the next-gen Mahindra Thar and later on will be used in Mahindra XUV500, Scorpio and also Ssangyong and Ford’s C-SUV.
