My Mahindra XUV500's ownership cost: 6 years & 1.52 lakh km

The best fuel efficiency I've had is 16+ km/l, while the worst has been between 8-9 km/l.

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As I wind up things, here are a few things to sum up the ownership expenses and spending:

I never glanced at the average FEs but the app continued to track - the City vs Highway demarcation is not appropriate in the data though. The best I have had was 16+ km/l when I drove on the Cruise Control and did not exceed 120 ever on that drive. The worst probably is about 8-9 km/l when the pedal stayed floored for the entire trip

The sharp drop one time - was when the Car was used by someone and they topped up the diesel, so my cost is Zero. That was the only few kilometres someone drove my car. Out of 152K km, I think only for about 1000 km cumulative all-inclusive I must have sat in the second row or passenger seat!

The car was almost once a month washed at the friendly washing centre nearby - nothing extraordinary - just shampoo and jet water spray. Raise it up on the lift and wash the underbody, cleaning the dirt from every place the eye could see. Once a year, my dear friend @SunnyBoi gave it a TLC in terms of wax, wash and polish.

None of the routine services was ever skipped! Not a single unattended niggle/ issue was left open for more than 3 days. Ideally, the visit to the service station should have been once every 10K km or a year typically - this might be double of the routine norm but nothing worrisome - Chrome motors folks took care of it well.

What a beautiful ride this was! The paper transfer is taking place - I had to obtain the Clearance Certificate/ CC or NOC in order for the buyer to register the car in his place/ RTO jurisdiction.

Here is one picture the new owner sent me last week when the Orange cheetah was headed to the new den:

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