Upcoming festival season is considered auspicious for driving home a new car. For ones who have not booked a petrol driven car yet, you may have to wait a little longer to drive home your favorite car. Apart from reasons like popularity of top-selling models, the government scrapping off subsidies on diesel cars have also boosted petrol car sales. Moreover, the difference between petrol and diesel cars has also narrowed thereby discouraging buyers from opting for diesel cars at a premium price.
Japanese carmaker Honda noted that around six months back, out of ten cars sold by the company around seven of them were in diesel variant. But now, the demand for diesel has been reduced by half. Speaking more on the situation Rakesh Srivastava, senior vice-president of marketing and sales at Hyundai India, said, “Diesel vehicles are still seeing positive traction, but the growth will be led by new models and petrol-driven cars.”
Popular compact SUV Ecosport from Ford, had received huge orders for diesel varinats post its launch in the country. The demand for diesel was reportedly so high that company had to slow down the prodcution for petrol version to meet the demand for diesel varinat. Now the trend has changed, the diesel version is readily available, whereas petrol version is on waiting period for about a month. The automatic transmission variant has about two-three months waiting period.
As per latest reports some of the popular hotselling models that are on waiting list are – Honda Amaze – 3 Weeks, Ford Ecosport - 1 Month, Honda City – 3/4 Months, Honda Mobilio – 2/3 Months, Hyundai Grandi10 Petrol – 1 month, Tata Zest – 1/4 Months, Maruti Celerio AMT – 10 Weeks, NewVW Polo GT TDI – 3 Month, Hyundai Xcent – 1 Month.
