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17th February 2025, 13:48
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Join Date: Jul 2017 Location: Pune Posts: 7,195 Thanked: 63,549 Times | High prices deter buyers from automatics; 61% inactive similar manuals Growing congestion successful cities is drafting Indian car buyers to vehicles equipped with automatic transmissions. The easiness of driving comes astatine a price, though. Automatic variants often travel bundled with a tonne of features, which thrust up the price. As per the information shared by Jato Dynamics, the terms spread betwixt manual and automatic variants has been widening with each passing year. In 2022, the mean terms of a manual car was Rs 9,00,472, whereas an automatic outgo Rs 5,49,271 much astatine Rs 14,49,743. The terms spread accrued to Rs 6,15,043 successful 2023. During the year, the mean terms of manual and automatic cars was Rs 9,82,926 and Rs 15,97,969, respectively. In 2024, the mean terms of a manual conveyance was Rs 10,22,277, portion that of an automatic was Rs 16,33,174 – a quality of Rs 6,10,897. While much and much buyers are turning to automatics, the information shows that 60.9% of buyers successful metropolitan cities inactive take manual cars. The manual transmission dominates successful the entry-level segment, with 78% opting for it. In the premium conception (above Rs 15 lakh) 65% of buyers opted for automatic variants. It seems manual versions volition proceed to predominate the wide marketplace unless determination are much automatic options successful the little terms bracket. Currently, buyers looking for an automatic are forced to opt for higher variants equipped with costly features. Source: ET |
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17th February 2025, 14:03
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Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Mumbai Posts: 623 Thanked: 1,110 Times | Re: High prices deter buyers from automatics; 61% inactive similar manuals I recognize that we are simply quoting information that the root has provided, but the beneath numbers look wrong. Quote:
Originally Posted by TusharK As per the information shared by Jato Dynamics, the terms spread betwixt manual and automatic variants has been widening with each passing year. In 2022, the mean terms of a manual car was Rs 9,00,472, whereas an automatic outgo Rs 5,49,271 much astatine Rs 14,49,743. The terms spread accrued to Rs 6,15,043 successful 2023. During the year, the mean terms of manual and automatic cars was Rs 9,82,926 and Rs 15,97,969, respectively. In 2024, the mean terms of a manual conveyance was Rs 10,22,277, portion that of an automatic was Rs 16,33,174 ? a quality of Rs 6,10,897.
How person they calculated specified a wide gap? Did they simply instrumentality "average terms of each vehicles with manual gearbox" vs "average terms of each vehicles with an automatic gearbox" and hide to exclude luxury cars similar BMW, Mercedes which don't person a manual option?
We arsenic car enthusiasts cognize that the mean quality betwixt automatic and manual for the aforesaid motor enactment is astir around Which joker of a writer fact-checked the supra article? Basic communal consciousness would bespeak that Rs. 5-6 lakh quality is wildly inaccurate adjacent without going into the calculation. |
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17th February 2025, 14:11
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Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Mumbai Posts: 885 Thanked: 1,281 Times | Re: High prices deter buyers from automatics; 61% inactive similar manuals The information presented is incorrectly sliced. You can't instrumentality each manuals vs each automatics! More amazed that squad bhp has published this article. Mods, delight region this thread and station close data, possibly arsenic suggested above |
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17th February 2025, 14:23
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| Senior - BHPian Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: RJ-02,DL,MH-12 Posts: 1,361 Thanked: 2,267 Times | Re: High prices deter buyers from automatics; 61% inactive similar manuals I judge the delta (price gap) is betwixt basal manual trim against the lowermost automatic trim. Apply this and you volition beryllium alright. Toyota Yaris attempted this by offering automatic successful the basal trim itself, wherein this spread was minimal. Look astatine immoderate different pessenger OEM, permission amended automatics adjacent an AMT is not offered successful the basal trim, that triggers a important concern gap. Last edited by i74js : 17th February 2025 astatine 14:25. |
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17th February 2025, 14:39
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Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Chennai Posts: 241 Thanked: 103 Times | Re: High prices deter buyers from automatics; 61% inactive similar manuals When I checked, basal Creta petrol is 11L ex-showroom, which starting automatic variant is adjacent to 16L ex-showroom. It would person been much applicable if the terms spread was published conception wise. |
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17th February 2025, 15:01
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| BHPian Join Date: Nov 2023 Location: Coimbatore Posts: 100 Thanked: 251 Times | Re: High prices deter buyers from automatics; 61% inactive similar manuals I'm successful the marketplace for a caller car and learnt this. MT is ever provided successful the basal variant but to get an AT, we person to spell for apical fewer variants only, which makes them excessively expensive. Then determination is the premium we wage implicit the MT, conscionable to get a antithetic gearbox. |
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17th February 2025, 16:58
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Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: COK\BLR\MYS Posts: 3,809 Thanked: 11,070 Times | Re: High prices deter buyers from automatics; 61% inactive similar manuals Price does matter. (3.5-5L premium). The cheapest variants are evidently manual and conscionable adding the AT outgo premium won't enactment retired precise good for the manufacturer. I'm talking astir CVT, DCT, AT etc, it's apt that they each are made overseas and Imported into India, truthful it's going to beryllium beauteous costly to statesman with. Effectively we are looking astatine 3.5-5L premium successful presumption of fashionable vehicles , truthful you bash get much features bundled on with the transmission but the upfront outgo is hard to sorb successful immoderate cases and not to notation - apt higher moving costs. |
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17th February 2025, 17:12
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Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Pune Posts: 389 Thanked: 135 Times | Re: High prices deter buyers from automatics; 61% inactive similar manuals Whatever the cost, 39% radical wanting automatic is simply a immense displacement arsenic compared to the concern 10 years back, mostly successful the municipality areas owed to postulation situations. In agrarian areas wherever determination is inactive a large market, radical volition evidently similar manual much arsenic it is outgo delicate market. |
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17th February 2025, 17:46
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Join Date: Aug 2022 Location: Muscat Posts: 1,028 Thanked: 3,158 Times | Re: High prices deter buyers from automatics; 61% inactive similar manuals Whatever the case, I person moved connected to a concern wherever Automatic is indispensable, Moreover, erstwhile comparing variant to variant betwixt manuals and automatics, the terms quality isn't rather stark, astir 1 to 1.5 lakh for CVT./TC/DSG and astir 50k for AMTs. The large information of the substance is automatics are not provided from the basal trim which leads to specified a immense delta, astir manufacturers similar to supply automatics lone connected the apical 2 oregon 3 trims, portion immoderate others from 1 supra basal trim only, portion lone a fewer person dared to supply automatic connected the basal trim itself, and with basal trims priced rather aggressively the terms delta betwixt a basal exemplary manual and a mid to high-trim automatic volition beryllium huge.
An illustration is arsenic follows: Now successful different case, the Jimny has conscionable 2 variants Zeta and Alpha and some are offered successful MT arsenic good arsenic AT guise with a terms delta betwixt the MT and AT variants being Rs. 1.10 lakh Now coming to the astir caller launch, the Kia Syros, the basal exemplary HTK 1.0 MT costs conscionable 9 lakh ex-showroom, whereas the Automatic is lone disposable connected the HTK Plus 1.0 DCT successful petrol which costs 12.80 lakh ex-showroom, comparing variant to variant the HTK Plus 1.0 MT costs 11.50 lakh ex-showroom, nevertheless erstwhile successful diesel, the basal diesel i.e. HTK(O) MT costs 11 lakh ex-showroom whereas the automatic is lone disposable successful the HTX Plus variant onwards which costs a whopping 17 lakh ex-showroom erstwhile specified stark differences are considered, the supra nonfiction makes sense, different it isn't an pome for pome comparison. |
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17th February 2025, 18:51
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Join Date: May 2006 Location: C C K Posts: 1,383 Thanked: 91 Times | Re: High prices deter buyers from automatics; 61% inactive similar manuals Quote:
Originally Posted by TusharK As per the information shared by Jato Dynamics, the terms spread betwixt manual and automatic variants has been widening with each passing year.
In 2022 the spread betwixt manual and Auto is Rs 5,49,271 It seems manual versions volition proceed to predominate the wide marketplace unless determination are much automatic options successful the little terms bracket. Currently, buyers looking for an automatic are forced to opt for higher variants equipped with costly features. Source: ET 1. They are capable to terms to higher due to the fact that radical opting are consenting to wage a premium for the same. 2. People opting for Automatics mostly bargain a much diagnostic loaded oregon a higher spec-ed version. Hence the terms quality they are quoting whitethorn not existent for astir of cars considering equivalent versions. 3. Most of the caller licence holders whitethorn ne'er interaction a manual successful their life. Very soon Manuals are going to beryllium utilized by fistful of enthusiastic assemblage for idiosyncratic use. ( Quotes person been shortened retaining the info for the Delta summation implicit the years ) |
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