The founders
Dinesh Chahal & Rahul Soni — Founders of AdventureX4x4
“Indian roads are the hardest test on earth.Gear that survives a monsoon-soaked Spiti pass at 4,500 m can be trusted anywhere.”
— Dinesh Chahal, Co-founder & Lead Outfitter
How it started
One garage. One Thar. One question.
AdventureX4x4 started the way most real things start in India — in a garage. A Faridabad base, a small crew of overlanders, and one Mahindra Thar that kept breaking the off-the-shelf gear bolted onto it.
Dinesh had been overlanding for a decade by then — Spiti to Ladakh, the Northeast loops, the Rann of Kutch in summer. Every trip taught him the same lesson: the gear sold in India was either imported (and priced for it) or compromised. There was no third option.
So they built one — together.
The founders
Two friends. One obsession.
AdventureX4x4 wasn't founded by a boardroom. It was founded by two friends who kept ending up on the same bad roads, in the same weather, arguing about the same broken gear.
Dinesh Chahal and Rahul Soni started the company together in Faridabad in 2024 — not to enter a market, but because the equipment they wanted for their own trucks did not exist in India at a price that made sense. What began as a shared obsession became a workshop, then a brand.
They still travel together. The photograph above is the Winter Spiti Expedition — the same route we use to test what we sell.
Dinesh Chahal
Co-founder & Lead Outfitter
A decade overlanding the Indian Himalaya before the company existed — Spiti, Ladakh, the Northeast loops, the Rann in summer. Every product is signed off by him, and he still answers most of the calls.
Rahul Soni
Co-founder
Founded AdventureX4x4 together with Dinesh in 2024 and runs the business alongside him, from the Faridabad workshop to the expeditions the gear is tested on.
A decade of roads, then 2024
How the brand earned its scars.
Before 2024
A decade on the road
A decade of overlanding the Indian Himalaya — Spiti, Ladakh, the Northeast loops, the Rann of Kutch in summer — taught Dinesh exactly what Indian rigs need and where the off-the-shelf gear keeps failing.
2024
AdventureX4x4 is founded
Dinesh and Rahul found AdventureX4x4 in Faridabad and launch the overland range — rooftop tents across four series, plus recovery, power, water and extreme-weather gear, chosen and fitted for Indian terrain.
2026
Built to global standards
A full overland stack, proven on the routes we name. Shipping reaches every corner of India, with the first international shipments crossing into the UAE, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
Built in Faridabad
A decade on the road, in livery.
How we build
Three rules. No exceptions.
No. 01
Sleep in it before you sell it.
Every product launches only after Dinesh has personally lived in it for a multi-day expedition. The Leopard 41 went through 41 nights of testing across three seasons before shipping.
No. 02
Build for where it's used, not where it's reviewed.
Indian terrain isn't European terrain. Monsoon, dust, altitude, salt — our products are tuned to the conditions that actually fail other gear.
No. 03
The expedition is the product.
Selling rooftop tents was never the goal. The goal was more people having a story about the night they slept above the treeline. The tent is the means.
Want to talk to him?
Dinesh still picks up
most of the calls.
If you're planning a build, joining an expedition, or just want to ask about a specific product — call the workshop. He'll probably answer.