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India’s SUV market is turning red-hot, with luxury beasts commanding top rupee and middle-class marvels joining the race. It is more than a car. It is a statement

XYesterday, a man with a crore of rupees lived in a stratosphere all his own, a crorepati, looked up to with awe and veneration. Today, the crore has been humbled. It doesn’t go very far, which strips our man of his wonderand chutzpah. But as a little bird points out, our crorepatican still buy a flat in the suburbs, invest in fixed deposit schemes and get enough returns to buy a daily samosa or two. Or our man can be very smart—by my yardstick—and get himself a Toyota Vellfire, Land Rover Discovery or Defender, BMW X3 or IX, Audi Q5 or Q6 e-tron, top-of-the-line Mercedes-Benz GLA or GLC, or a Jeep Grand Cherokee and go

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