Mahindra Axe review, road test

You climb up to and not into the Axe, foot swinging on the cable stirrups. And the driving environment feels alien from the word go.

It’s incredibly wide on the inside. Your passenger sits almost three feet away from you, out of reach, the windscreen is exceedingly wide and short, which feels weird, and everything around is sparse and very bare. A quick glance at the rear seats proves just how wide the Axe is again — you could fit four passengers there quite easily, and we did. And a six-footer could also use it as a bunk. Then there are padded gun racks all over the place, this vehicle has been designed to carry troops after all, and a storage box below the rear bench seat.