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Originally Posted by bimi  Oh Tron. this is a completely wrong statement. There is no separate line for the Indian operation & for export production. I have been to their factory recently and I have seen the cars been made in the same line. They encourage a lot of visitors to visit their factory nowadays especially if you are a corporate employee. |
That's true. Hyundai's export and India models are built on the same assembly line. I've seen the factory as well - that was before the i10 was launched - and UK Santros with a different feature set were being built right along cars for the Indian market.
One thing we have to be thankful for - since Hyundai makes these cars in India for the global market, the features offered elsewhere trickle down to us. The AT gearbox and the ABS option on the Santro are examples. It didnt take a lot for Hyundai to offer those features in India because it was already making cars with them for export. If Hyundai had an India specific operation, Im pretty sure we wouldn't have got those options.