Jaipur: Soaring petrol prices have forced the Army to look for other options in the SUV variant and it started summer trials of Mahindra Scorpio and Tata Safari in Thar desert in Rajasthan on Monday.
The vehicles are being driven by Army drivers to test their endurance, fuel consumption, temperature, cross country drive performance with and without load, power-to-wheel ratio among other factors, Army sources said.
Two variants of Mahindra Scorpio and one variant of Tata Safari are under the trial on desert tracks in Jaisalmer in the western sector, they said....
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09:34 PM, Apr 30, 2013
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05:53 PM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: Petrol price were on Monday cut by Rs 1 per litre with effect from midnight, the third reduction in rates in the last four weeks. Earlier in April, the price was reduced by 85 paise per litre. The price cut, which was made possible because of fall in international oil prices, excludes local sales tax or VAT. However, there will be no change in diesel prices even though...
07:00 PM, Apr 15, 2013
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06:51 PM, Apr 01, 2013
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07:14 PM, Mar 15, 2013
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12:59 PM, Mar 14, 2013
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12:40 PM, Mar 04, 2013
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06:09 PM, Mar 02, 2013
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10:01 PM, Mar 01, 2013
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06:19 PM, Mar 01, 2013
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07:20 PM, Feb 18, 2013
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03:04 PM, Feb 16, 2013
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06:49 PM, Feb 15, 2013
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04:23 PM, Jan 30, 2013
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11:59 PM, Jan 17, 2013
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