The Hyundai Venue has been the best selling in its segment on several occasions and has now crossed 1 lakh bookings with the SX and SX(O) trims being in most demand.
Hyundai launched the Venue sub-compact SUV in India in May last year and since then, the Venue has been performing consistently well. It has even been the best-selling sub-compact SUV on several occasions on a monthly basis, replacing the Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza from the top-spot. The company has now announced that the bookings for the Venue have crossed the 1 lakh mark.
It is the top-spec SX trim with the Bluelink connected technology and DCT gearbox and the SX(O) trims that are in most demand, constituting for more than 50% of all the trims in demand. Hyundai has now also started to export the Venue to overseas market and recently shipped 1400 units of the India-made Venue to South Africa. The company will also be manufacturing and exporting Left-Hand-Drive Venue SUVs to the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, in the future. Currently, the LHD model is under development.
The Venue has been so popular that it has been consistently trading places with the Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza for the Number 1. spot in the Top 5 UV sales chart. In the month of July and August of 2019, the Venue was the best selling UV in the country with 9,585 and 9,342 units sold respectively in both the months. Displacing the Vitara Brezza from the Number 1. position is quite a task as it has been longstanding UV champion for quite some time.
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In fact, the Venue has been so popular for Hyundai that it has given the brand a whole new charge in the UV segment. Of Hyundai’s total 1,06,366 UVs sold between April-October 2019, the Venue accounts for 48%. To give you another example of the popularity of SUVs in the market these days, Hyundai’s SUVs account for 36% of the carmaker’s total passenger vehicle sales of 2,94,444 units in April-October 2019. The strong performance of the SUVs has helped Hyundai expand its market share in the UV segment by 5%.
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The Hyundai Venue comes in three engine options. A 1.0-litre, three-cylinder turbocharged motor that makes 118 bhp and 172 Nm of peak torque and is mated to a 6-speed manual transmission as standard while the DCT is optional. There’s a 1.2-litre, four-cylinder naturally aspirated engine that develops 82 bhp and 114 Nm of peak torque and is mated to a 5-speed manual gearbox. Finally, there is the 1.4-litre, four-cylinder, turbocharged diesel engine which puts out 89 bhp and 220 Nm of peak torque and is mated to a six-speed manual gearbox as standard.
