India, Feb. 8 -- Back in 2006, me and a couple of friends had gone on a road trip from Mumbai down to the Kerala beachside town of Alappuzha. This was a drive that I will always remember, not least for the car that I drove, which was a Mahindra Scorpio. A month or so before we had set off on the drive, Anand Mahindra had taken me and a few more journalists to the Igatpuri plant where the Scorpio is put together. This is when the company had just launched the first facelift of that car, the one with the tall tail-lights, if you remember. Mr Mahindra in a moment of jest had told me that I could take the car for a month and go on a long drive. I'm not sure he had told his communications team the same thing, but after I had shot off my mouth ...