Mahendra latest crack at making a compact suv, and two things stand out in this statement. latest because as you may remember 2012’s mahendra qunto was also marketed as a compact suv’ with not a lot of success. and suv because, unlike the qunto, thenew mahendra tuv300 is not drived from an mpv, nor is it a monocoque crossover link its main rival, the ford ecosport. it has been engineered from the grounds up to be a tough, ladder frame suv albeit a compact one and that’s its usp. okay, it does share its chassis architecture with the new scoripio, and that means a hybroformed frame, independent double wishbone suspension at the front, and a non independent, multi link coil spring setup at the rear.