Friday, February 19, 2010

Bootleggers Choice: Mahindra Pickups!


Last week Indian police caught two individuals attempting to illegally transport IMFL (Indian Made Foreign Liquor) from Haryana to Jaipur (around 150 miles) after a police chase involving officers from three police stations.

The two suspects taken into custody were driving a Maruti (Indian Suzuki) while another two individuals got away after escaping the chase and abandoning their Mahindra pickup.

The suspects avoided police barricades and attempted to create their own road blocks by tossing the illicit booze onto the roadway in hopes of stopping traffic. Needless to say the Mahindra was the better vehicle for evading police, not that Mahindra Planet condones such behavior.

It does leave one to wonder if Mahindra’s original working name for the TR20 and TR40 pickups, Appalachian, was intended to appeal to American moonshiners or bootleggers of the southeastern United States.

Source: Times of India (complete news article)

1 comment:

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