Hyundai, one of India’s biggest carmakers, has always set benchmarks in every segment. Undoubtedly, their vehicles have pushed the envelope with their equipment levels, with many features being segment โfirstsโ. This has pretty much compelled the rivals to put their best foot forward, but the real beneficiary here is the consumer, who benefits from the most well-equipped products around.
Launched in July 2023, the Exter has been an immensely popular compact SUV. Car buyers have really taken a liking to the overall package that it offers. Among the highlights here are the several amenities that you would generally find in vehicles positioned in a segment or two above. That makes the Exter an incredibly enticing and popular vehicle among new-age car buyers.
Segment-Best Features Galore
Among the main attractions of the Hyundai Exter is its extensive list of the latest tech, connectivity, convenience and safety-enhancing features. Continuing the trend of offering cars brimming with features, Hyundai offers the Exter with a handful of segment-first amenities. Most of these are available only on costlier cars. For instance, many vehicles, even a few segments above, don’t offer a factory-fitted dashcam. However, the Exter has a dual dashcam which can record the external occurrences, as well as things on the inside.
Apart from that, for a country obsessed with sunroofs, the Hyundai Exter goes a step ahead and offers a voice-enabled electric sunroof. Not just this, you can speak out the command in English, Hindi or Hinglish languages. Furthermore, tech-savvy customers really appreciate things the wireless charger, which is another feature thatโs mostly found on more expensive cars.
But the piรจce de resistance is the Bluelink connected car suite that offers a whopping 60 features. For the uninitiated, this feature has trickled down from the Creta, clearly a bigger and costlier SUV in the carmakerโs lineup. Meanwhile, the Exterโs 8-inch HD touchscreen infotainment system provides Android Auto/Wireless CarPlay along with multi-language (10 Regional & 2 Global) UI support. Yet another feature thatโs generally found only in costlier SUVs is that of the ventilated seats. A combination of all these is not available on any other car at this price point.
Top-Notch Safety
Another key attraction of the Hyundai Exter is the company’s focus on safety. With safety fast becoming a key factor of many car-buying decisions, Hyundai has been at the forefront of aligning its products with customer requirements โ it became the first mainstream carmaker to standardize the availability of 6 airbags across all the variants of every car it sells in our country. So, with 6 airbags available right from the base model, the Exter becomes among the safest entry-level SUVs around.
However, with the Exter, the safety suite doesn’t just end here. The SUV boasts of, hold your breath, over 40 Advanced Safety Features and 26 Standard Safety Features! The exhaustive list includes bits like a Tyre pressure monitoring system, Parking Assist (Rear)-Camera with display audio, Electronic Stability Control (ESC), Hill assist control (HAC), Vehicle stability management, ABS (Anti-Lock braking system) with EBD, Emergency stop signal (ESS), Speed-sensing & Impact sensing auto door lock, Engine Immobilizer and many more. This means that even though it is a small car, the safety equipment list looks like it belongs to a much more expensive car.
With prices ranging from Rs 6 lakh to Rs 10.43 lakh (ex-showroom), the Hyundai Exter punches over its weight with equipment levels befitting of the costlier SUVs.
