Hyundai drives in compact sedan Aura with price starting at Rs 5.79 lakh

New Delhi: Hyundai Motor India on Tuesday, January 21 launched a new compact sedan Aura, priced between Rs 5.79 lakh and Rs 9.22 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi), as it looks to consolidate its position in the segment which is currently dominated by the likes of Maruti Dzire and Honda Amaze.

Aura comes with BS VI compliant 1.2 litre diesel, one litre turbo petrol and 1.2 litre petrol powertrains.

The 1.2 petrol versions of Aura have priced between Rs 5.79 lakh and Rs 8.04 lakh while the 1.2-litre diesel trims are tagged between Rs 7.73 lakh and Rs 9.22 lakh.

The one-litre turbo petrol is priced at Rs 8.54 lakh. The petrol AMT trims are priced at Rs 7.05 lakh and Rs 8.04 lakh while the diesel versions with similar technology are tagged at Rs 8.23 lakh and Rs 9.22 lakh. The petrol 1.2 litres (CNG) version is priced at Rs 7.28 lakh.

As per the company, the 1.2-litre petrol variants of Aura come with the fuel efficiency of 20.5 and 20.1 kilometres per litre for manual and AMT versions, respectively.

The 1.2-litre diesel manual trims come with the fuel efficiency of 25.35 km per litre while the AMT versions come with 25.4 km/litre efficiency, it added.

Hyundai ended the last year with 17.3 per cent market share in the PV segment against 16.3 per cent in 2018.