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Hyundai's price hike will be across all models from Eon to Santa Fe
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New Delhi: Hyundai Motor India Ltd on Tuesday said it will hike prices by up to Rs1 lakh across models from January to offset higher input costs, fluctuating exchange rates and marketing expenses.
“In these challenging year-end market conditions, we are constrained to consider price increase on account of factors like increased input costs, fluctuating exchange rates and increasing marketing expenses," HMIL senior vice-president, sales and marketing Rakesh Srivastava said in a statement.
“The proposed price increase will be up to Rs1,00,000 and will be effective from January 2017 across all models from Eon to Santa Fe," he said.
The company sells a range of passenger vehicles, from entry level small car Eon with a starting price of Rs3.27 lakh to SUV Santa FE priced at Rs31.98 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi).
Earlier in the day, Nissan Motor India said it will increase prices of its vehicles by up to Rs30,000 from next month to offset higher input costs. The company sells a range of vehicles under the Nissan and Datsun brands starting with entry level small car Datsun Go priced at Rs3.28 lakh to SUV Nissan Terrano Rs13.75 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi).
Tata Motors had on Monday announced that it would hike passenger vehicle prices by Rs5,000 to Rs25,000 from next month in order to offset increased input costs. Renault India has also announced plans to increase prices of its vehicles by up to 3% from next month for the same reason.
Earlier, Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) had announced hike in prices of its vehicles by up to 3% from next month to offset increased input cost and consistent upward trend in foreign exchange rates.
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