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Hyundai India has delisted the Elantra from its products portfolio.
The Elantra is no longer listed on carmakers official website and click to buy site.
The Elantra facelift was launched in India back in 2019 with a sole 2.0-litre petrol engine and later in 2020 it was introduced with a 1.5-litre Diesel engine.
We booked ours in October, and were expecting delivery by December, however, Chip shortages meant, no Kona or Elantra deliveries in November or December.
In Jan, we got the news that it was discontinued, and we could wait for the All new 2021 Elantra, which, according to them, would be released in March.
We kept following up, and continued our booking; and finally gave up a couple of weeks back. Test drove the Octavia, fell in love, and got it home as well.
I hope the D segment revives soon. Very few options, but really good ones. No complains :)
Now, the new Elantra 2022 dates is somewhere in Q2 (April) they say. However, seeing no signs of it, no test Mules, I doubt if it will get released soon at all.
Problem is with Octavia moving up the segment, Elantra is literally in no man’s land with no interest too. Elantra at this stage is a confused product, car is upmarket than the crossovers below 25 lakhs but doesn’t have the engine to survive. The diesel 1.5 is offered in all cars below its segment. The petrol 2 NA is not a performer too.
Really hope they get the new gen Elantra with better engine options, atleast it should have 1.4 turbo. Even Slavia is coming with 1.5 turbo.
That’s pretty sad. As an Elantra owner, it is a good car and one that is underrated in India, considering the high volumes it sells globally. Well, you finally need to do what the market needs.
Igominious end to a fine name and ends one more D1 stalwart.
Sorry to hear this. Hopefully, used car buyers will get good deals.:thumbs up
It is Octavia all alone now, which has moved multiple segments up. Slavia 1.5L will probably be good in driving dynamics, but with interiors a couple of segments below. I hope the 20-30L segment see a revival soon with at least a few options for Sedan fans or is this not happening?
For Elantra, it was always a question of when it will be discontinued. It is sad to see the D-segment sedans going out of production, one after another.
Elantra sales are in limited numbers and these figures are nothing to boast of. Hence, Hyundai assembles most of the imported components to assemble the car. Its not viable to manufacture such low volume selling cars/SUV's by most manufacturers. When the model gets dated internationally and reaches the end of its model life, Hyundai always braces up to import the next model's (of Elantra) components. Hence, as a rule such car models are taken off the website to pave the way for their successors.
The Tucson, Santa Fe, Sonata are other examples of low volume selling Hyundais. Many a time spares for such low sellers are not readily available in all dealerships and the owner has to many a time wait till the spare/s is/are available and the car gets back on the road.
We have a whole list of other car makers who import components and assemble their low volume selling models. These models get changed immediately in India as soon as they reach the "end of model life" internationally.
Whereas, many of the models manufactured here go on and go months or years even after they get outdated internationally.
I am keen to buy Tucson (current gen). Likely it'll also be taken off the market soon
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Originally Posted by cs_rajesh
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I feel this is unlikely, but one can hope.
From my research, the 2021 Elantra released internationally is one of the best cars available in all the price ranges it covers - the i30 Sedan base model in Australia is not that much more expensive(~5000AUD) than the Kia Picanto, and for those 5000 dollars you get a car that's more than a meter longer, has a much better chassis + proven (if somewhat boring) 2.0L petrol engine + interiors and one that scored 4 stars in the Australian NCAP.
The i30 Sedan N-line is a banger of a car with 201hp mated to a 7-speed DCT, going for the same price as the 175hp Civic with a CVT and amongst luxury cars, a 1.5L 3-cylinder BMW 118i with 140hp and FWD.
I don't think Hyundai have ever had a value problem with any of their cars, but the current gen Elantra in India is stuck in no man's land - C segment cars with turbo-petrol engines (for that matter, Hyundai's own 1.0/1.4 turbo-petrols) are more exciting to drive, the Octavia is the obvious enthusiast's choice amongst D1 cars, and with the advent of C2 crossovers in the market there's not much mass market appeal for D1 sedans.
Sure, they handle better - but can that really compensate for a 113bhp diesel engine in a 20L+ car? The 8L Rapid Rider of yesteryear had a more exciting 110bhp TSi engine!
If indeed it's being discontinued (as opposed to being taken down to make way for the 7th gen), I'm truly heartbroken.
Had eagerly waited for the Civic to come to our shores, only to be disappointed by the lack of a manual petrol version. Then had my heart set on the 7th gen Elantra, pretty confident in the fact that there would be a manual petrol (as has been the case with all iterations of the Elantra).
The 7th gen was originally scheduled for October-December 2021, but I assumed the delay was on account Covid and consequential chip shortages.
I really they hope they release the 7th gen as just a halo product if nothing else.
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I have the 5th and 6th 1.6 diesel automatic at home both used, cause this car depreciates so beautifully and in the used car market its a hotcake. Its sad they reduced the power from 126bhp to 113bhp but the 1.6 crdi is really not efficient, more likely the 2.0 german engines are better not only in highway but in city as well in terms of efficiency.
I don't realize why people don't choose this car, It is priced competitively and you get a bigger all-rounded product at a really VFM proposition.
Did this thing even exist in the new market for a while now? The sales numbers were abysmally dwindling, and I didn’t realise that it was on sale. I only remember 2017 to be the year of the Elantra, for some odd reason. Nonetheless, the pre-facelift was a good looking car; the last Hyundai sedan / car in general that I found good looking. RIP.
Guys, the 6th-gen Elantra has been discontinued the world over, so this news isn't all that surprising.
I do hope that the 7th-gen Elantra comes here. If for nothing else, Hyundai should think of it as giving its existing customers an "upgrade" option & retaining them in the Hyundai family. On the downside, the Elantra does not contribute to Hyundai's bottom line in the same way that the Octavia & Superb do to Skoda's. Hyundai managers would rather be selling 10,000 Cretas a month rather than 50 Elantras.
7th gen Elantra is radical to say the least and gets N and N-Line spec too! Will be interesting to see how it gets accepted here if at all it is launched. I don't think there is any sedan in India that is as edgy as the new Elantra. Let us hope for the best.
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