Hyundai shows Santro

Hyundai has in India, the cloth removed of the new Santro, a moment that more or less coincides with the anniversary of Hyundai in India. The brand is 20 years.

In August, showed Hyundai's first sketch of a new A-segmenter, a compact model when it was still referred to by its internal code "AH2'. Hyundai, after Suzuki, the largest car manufacturer in India, describes the Santro as a car according to the 'Tallboy Concept'. A short hatchback with a high horse-drawn.

The of 3.61 metres long, the Santro is Hyundai's on a entirely new platform and is wearing a fairly modern-looking horse-drawn. The car is a small five inches longer than the Santro, which it replaces. The car is 1.65 metres wide and 1.5 to 6 meters high. The wheelbase is 2.4 metres. Hyundai gives the Santro a 6.5-inch touchscreen for the infotainment system, is that with both Android Auto and Apple Carplay can go and also Mirror Link supports. The system is also optional, the same applies for things like a backup camera. Striking detail: the Santro has manual pump in the back!

The Santro gets a 1.1-litre four-cylinder engine in its nose, a block of 69 ps and 99 Nm generates. Hyundai delivers in addition to a regular vijfbak a robotized manual gearbox and offers the car also with a variant of 1.1 that natural gas lust. The power then drops back to 59 hp. The top speed of the benzineversie is 150 km/h and who the version with manual gearbox orders must be in by 14.5 count to a speed of 100 km/h can roll. The version with robotized manual gearbox for the job 16,6 count needed.

The Santro comes as a successor of the Santro, to 2014 in India built second facelift of the Atos, a car in the Netherlands in 2003 came on the market and in 2008 of disappeared. In addition, it will replace the Santro is very likely also the Eon, for the Indian (and South American) market intended hatchback on the Indian market as an entry level Hyundai acts. The Elon shares his base with the first generation of Hyundais i10. A step higher on the Hyundai price is also the current i10, but not such as we have in Europe. In India it is called the car Grand i10, i10 with a 10 inch longer wheelbase.

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