Hyundai Verna diesel might get expensive!

The Indian government plans to impose additional taxes on the diesel cars in India in addition to fill up the gap of demand between petrol and diesel cars. Recently, petrol prices have seen the sharpest hike and customers are going for diesel cars. It is speculated that the government to impose the additional taxes of Rs 1.70 lakh on small diesel cars and Rs 2.55 lakh on diesel sedans and diesel SUVs.

Hyundai Verna is the best-selling mid-size sedan and demand for its diesel version is more than petrol version. Hyundai Verna features for both petrol and diesel are tremendous. Its diesel model also offers automatic transmission system version. But after getting extra tax of Rs. 2.22 lakh, Hyundai Verna price will be going to touch Rs. 13 lakh for the top-end variant while the basic variant of the Verna diesel may go for Rs. 10 lakh.

Right now, on the price and features base Hyundai Verna India is the major challenger of Ford Fiesta Car, Honda City, Maruti SX4, Skoda Rapid Car, Fiat Linea and Volkswagen Vento. Hyundai Verna mileage is too very impressive in the segment for diesel model so that customers are choosing as their right choice.

On the other hand, if the government imposes additional taxes of Rs 1.70 lakh on small diesel cars and Rs 2.55 lakh on medium and large diesel sedans and SUVs than other diesel car makers will also be hiking the prices for their diesel cars. And the price hike may affect the demand of diesel cars in India.

Hyundai Verna to power India made 1.6L diesel engine!

The Indian version of global sedan, Hyundai Verna fluidic will soon be running on the roads packed with India made diesel engine! Right now, it comes packed with imported 1.4L and 1.6L CRDi diesel engines and now, the Korean auto major has finally planed to grace it with India made powerplant. After getting India made diesel engine, Hyundai Verna price may also see a decline in domestic market.

With an investment of Rs 500 crore Hyundai Motors India Limited is going to set a diesel engine manufacturing plant in India. The new diesel powertrain making facility is expected to locate at the Hyundai's existing near Chennai, while it may also go for Gujarat. Along with 1.6L diesel engine of Hyundai Verna, the company will also produce 1.1L and 1.4L diesel engine in this factory for popular hatchback i10 and i20 respectively.

At present, Hyundai Verna features the 1.4L and 1.6L CRDi diesel engines and makes max power of 90 ps and 128 ps respectively. But the new developing all the diesel engines such as 1.1L, 1.4L and 1.6L would be having different power and mileage than current engines. So, packed with India made 1.6L diesel engine Hyundai Verna mileage would also be showing changes.

On the other hand, Hyundai has also launched the re-freshed version for its premium hatchback Hyundai i20 which is remarking buzz response from buyers. And now, the company is planning to offer an SUV to the buyers at surprising price range to give stiff competition to newly launched Maruti Ertiga.

Hyundai Verna outplayed by Nissan Sunny in March 2012

It is all known that Hyundai's fluidic sedan Hyundai Verna is remarking buzz response from buyers against a lot of same segment rivals. But, in March this year Hyundai Verna has been outplayed by the new C segment sedan Nissan Sunny. In March this year Hyundai sold 4,132 units of the Verna fluidic, while Nissan Sunny touched the sales mark of 4,151 units in this month. With this great sales mark of 4,151 Nissan Sunny has been C segment leader in Indian domestic market.

In terms of sales, Nissan Sunny is not only one step ahead of Hyundai Verna but also it has taken over the sales mark of other popular cars such as Honda City (3,920 units) and Volkswagen Vento (3,908 units) have also been taken in month of March 2012. Following the increase in excise duty up to 2 per cent for Budget 2012-13 Hyundai Verna price has also been increased for each variant. Now all the variants of the Verna fluidic are available at price range of Rs. 7.11 lakh to Rs. 11.26 lakh ex-showroom Delhi. On the other hand, Nissan Sunny price is being offered at the range of Rs. 5.93 lakh to Rs. 8.93 lakh ex-showroom Delhi.

Hyundai Verna is one of the most popular sedan cars in India and vailable in both petrol and diesel version with two engine trims such as 1.4L and 1.6L for each version. Meanwhile, Nissan Sunny also offer both petrol which packed with 1.5L petrol power train and diesel that comes loaded with 1.5L, 1461cc, 4 cylinder K9K diesel engine. Nissan India reported a growth of 180 per cent in March this year at record sales of 5880 units. Meanwhile, Hyundai India sold 59,229 car units in March this year and reported a growth of 6.6 per cent.