Its a good news for the sedan lovers. A new car from a premium developer has been launched in the Indian market. Its a sedan which competes with Dzire,Etios and Amaze. When compare with all these models since this is the latest and that too from Hyundai, this comes a little ahead.The Hyundai Xcent compact sedan has been launched in India. It is the first sedan from the company to follow the hatchback-to-sedan route taken by so many manufacturers, and it is precisely those manufacturers which have to look out for this sedan. Hyundai wants to be the biggest player in the mass-market segment and it has been pretty aggressive with past launches, the last which included the much acclaimed and loved Hyundai Grand i10. The Hyundai Xcent is essentially a Grand i10 with a boot stuck at the back.
As with most other compact sedans in the country, the Hyundai Xcent looks exactly like its hatchback sibling except for the rear. The Grand i10 is a much loved design and one of the more sedate executions of the Hyundai’s ‘fluidic’ design concept, and the Xcent gets the same traits. The swept back headlamps, the small grille, the massive air-dam, ‘diamond-cut’ alloy wheels, big inverted-curve line on the side and the front and side glass house area is ditto like the Grand i10. Move further back and you see the boot, which has been blended in well though it does look boxy if looked straight on from the back, a chrome strip above the number plate holder, a spoiler integrated onto the boot-lid and new tail-lamps. Oh, and the new bumper as well.
Dimension wise, the Xcent grow in length by 230mm to 3995 mm, managing to fit under the 4-metre mark and thus qualifying for excise duty cuts. Otherwise the car is similar to the Grand i10 hatchback. The boot space at 407-litres is the largest in the segment.
As with the exterior there is almost nothing that separates the way the interiors of the Xcent look from the one in the Grand i10. The dual-tone interior is the same, with the three-spoke multi-function steering wheel, the console mounted gearshift, the circular A/C vents, etc. etc. There are some things that are different though, the seat covers are not dual-tone like the ones on the hatchback, it is all beige. The second thing is that the rear-bench gets a centre arm-rest with cup-holders
Performance and Handling
Hyundai has plonked in the 1.2-litre 82 BHP / 113 Nm petrol engine and the 1.1-litre 71 BHP / 180 Nm diesel engine from the Grand i10 in the Xcent too. The diesel motor has been tuned for more torque than the Grand i10, and delivers about 20 Nm more as compared to the hatch. The diesel motor is only available with a 5-speed manual tranmission while the petrol motor is also available with a 4-speed automatic transmission.
Price
The introductory prices, ex-showroom Delhi are as follows:
Diesel Variants:
- Xcent : Rs. 5.56 Lakh
- Xcent S : Rs. 6.23 Lakh
- Xcent S (O) : Rs. 6.48 Lakh
- Xcent SX : Rs. 7.13 Lakh
- Xcent SX (O) : Rs. 7.38 Lakh
Petrol Variants:
- Xcent : Rs. 4.66 Lakh
- Xcent S : Rs. 5.32 Lakh
- Xcent S (O) : Rs. 5.57 Lakh
- Xcent SX : Rs. 6.22 Lakh
- Xcent S (O) AT : Rs. 6.29 Lakh
- Xcent SX (O) : Rs. 6.47 Lakh
- Xcent SX (O) AT : Rs. 7.19 Lakh
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