Car Auto Online | Indian Cars, Diesel Cars, Waiting Period and Demand for diesel cars in India | With rising cost of fuels like petrol, Diesel, LPG and CNG, car buyers are preferring cars that provide better mileage. Thus demand for fuel efficient cars in increasing. Car manufacturing companies inIndiaare also planning and launching the cars that provide better fuel efficiency (mileage) cars. Earlier about 15 years ago there used to be only 10% diesel cars inIndia. Now this share has increased to almost 50%. Rise in Petrol prices and variation in petrol and diesel prices in the main reason for the increase in demand for diesel cars in India.
Companies, brands and Models available in diesel cars: Maruti swift, Hyundai i20, Ford Figo, Chevrolet beat, Volkswagen Polo, Toyota Etios, Tata Indica and Nissan Micra are making both petrol and diesel variants and these cars available with a price range of Rs.3.5 lakhs to Rs.6.5 lakhs. The diesel cars are nearly Rs.60,000/- to Rs.1,00,000/- more compared with petrol cars. This Variation in price can be recovered over a period of three years.
Waiting period for diesel cars inIndia: one has to wait at least 6 months to buy new Diesel Maruti Suzuki swift, New Hyundai Verna, Toyota Etios cars. This situation is getting advantageous for Volkswagen and Chevrolet cars inIndia. Apart from this General motors and Volkswagen are offering attractive discounts and freebies for their beat, polo and Vento cars.
