Autocar India is the first to drive on the Mumbai-Nagpur Highway, in April 2022.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi Expressway on December 11. The 500km section from Nagpur to Shirdi will be inaugurated first, while the remaining section will be completed in six months. coming, according to Deputy Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
Officially named Hindu Hrudaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg, it is the second highway in Maharashtra after the Mumbai-Pune Expressway. The 701 km highway was built at a cost of Rs 49,250 and the total cost, including land acquisition and engineering, was estimated at Rs 55,332.
It will connect 10 districts – Nagpur, Wardha, Amravati, Washim, Buldhana, Jalna, Aurangabad, Nashik, Ahmednagar and Thane – which will reduce travel time between Mumbai and Nagpur from 16 to 8 hours. It will help a new economic corridor form along the route and 14 districts will be connected to the port in Mumbai, Fadnavis added.
Autocar India was the first to drive on the Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi Expressway, in April. We drive the 612 hp Mercedes-AMG E63 WILL BE on the new highway. Later, Minister of Urban Development and Public Works Eknath Shinde also took part in driving the Mercedes-Benz EQC. We got to join the Mumbai-based Throttle 97 supercar club with cars like the Nissan GTR, Ferrari 458 Pista, Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG, Jaguar F-Type, Audi R8 and Lamborghini Urus.
See our first ride on the new highway here and drive our car with Throttle 97 here.
