Mahindra’s Jeeps were India’s farm, taxi and police vehicles for sixty years, and its own Scorpio has been the government four-wheel drive since 2002; the Thar carries the Willys shape into the present.
Mahindra at work: Willys-derived CJs on Indian farms from 1949, the long-wheelbase Commander and Marshal as the shared taxis of rural India, the MM 540 and 550 with the police and revenue services, the Scorpio as the government four-wheel drive since 2002, and the Thar with farmers, the army and the off-road clubs.
Mahindra with the Indian forces: MM 540 and 550 hard tops with the army, paramilitary and state police from the 1960s, alongside the Maruti Gypsy, and Scorpios and Thars in service since.