Beating the downturn: Car buyers lap up new SUVs amid gloom and doom

If the response to three new launches - the MG Hector, Hyundai Venue, and Mahindra XUV3OO, all launched this year - is any indication, buyers of cars are snapping them up

Shally Seth Mohile  |  Mumbai 

Sports utility vehicles (SUVs) have busted the downturn in the automobile market even as passenger vehicles are battling the decade’s worst sales. If the response to three launches — the MG Hector, Hyundai Venue, and Mahindra XUV3OO, all this year — is any indication, buyers of cars are snapping them up.

Consider this: The MG Hector, the maiden offer of MG Motor India, has received bookings of close to 17,500 units in less than a month after it started accepting them. Rajeev Chhaba, the company's president and managing director, said if the current pace ...

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First Published: Sat, July 13 2019. 01:51 IST