Hyundai India launched the Alcazar SUV in the country today and with prices starting from Rs. 16.30 lakh, it is one of the premium offerings coming from the company. Placed between the Creta and the Tucson, Hyundai has bridged the gap with this new offering. The company had begun bookings for the Alcazar on June 9 and now, it has said that it has received 4000 bookings for the car in just 10 days.
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55% bookings were made for the Alcazar with the diesel powertrain
The Alcazar is a premium offering from Hyundai and hence the 4000 bookings are quite an eye opener. It's the 6-seater though that has received a lot of attention and that shows in the bookings as well as 60 per cent of the share has gone to the 6-seater version. The company received 40 per cent bookings for the 7 seater version. The company is also offering manual and automatic transmissions on both the petrol and manual transmission version of the car. For now, though Hyundai has received equal number of bookings for manual and automatic transmission.
The petrol and diesel split though is quite interesting to note as 45 per cent of the bookings have been made for the petrol variant while 55 per cent bookings were received for the diesel. The company has said that deliveries of the car will begin from today and it is expecting the waiting period for the car to be around 4 to 8 weeks. The company is pushing to accelerate production to ensure that waiting period for the car comes down.
