The Hyundai Motor India has taken down the Xcent sub-Four metre sedan from its official web site. This might very properly imply that the corporate could also be lastly phasing out the sedan from the Indian market. Nevertheless, any official affirmation from the model is but to be obtained.

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The corporate launched the successor to the compact sedan within the type of ‘Aura’ earlier this yr. Additionally, the Korean automaker continued promoting the outdated automobile and launched it in a industrial (taxi) model referred to as ‘Xcent Prime’. For the file, Maruti Suzuki follows an identical technique with its Dzire sedan which is immensely widespread among the many fleet consumers.

Whereas Hyundai Xcent initially spawned out from the second-gen Hyundai i10 (Grand i10), equally, the Aura got here out because the sedan iteration of the third-gen i10 (Grand i10 Nios). Each the Hyundai Aura and Xcent sedans featured the identical size (3,995 mm) and top (1,520 mm). Nevertheless, so as to carve out barely extra cabin house, the corporate prolonged Aura’s wheelbase by 25 mm. Aura additionally stood wider at 1,680 mm. Whereas the Xcent supplied a boot house of 407 litres, in Aura this house shrunk to 402 litres.

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The Xcent got here powered by a BS 6-compliant 1.2-litre petrol engine and a 1.2-litre diesel engine. Each the powertrains featured a 5-speed guide transmission. The prevailing industrial utilization oriented Xcent Prime comes fitted with a CNG package deal, which is paired to a regular 5-speed guide transmission.

A number of the direct rivals to the Hyundai Xcent/Aura embody the Maruti Suzuki’s Dzire and Honda Amaze sedans.