Hyundai Creta Facelift vs Kia Seltos Facelift: Hyundai has recently confirmed that the upgrade of its popular sub-compact SUV, Hyundai Creta is making India debut on January 16, 2024. The upcoming Hyundai Creta Facelift is a straight competitor to the recently launched Kia Seltos facelift and might hurt its sales after entering India if priced strategically. The demand for facelift models has witnessed a considerable rise in the Indian automobile market. Although, there are many aspects in which both these SUVs resemble in terms of features. But these SUVs also differ in many aspects. Curious to know the differences and similarities between the Kia Seltos and Hyundai Creta, check more details below.
Hyundai Creta vs Kia Seltos: Design
The Creta facelift gets a significant design overhaul, featuring a vertically stacked LED headlamp setup, a wider grille, and a muscular bonnet. The rear receives new LED taillights connected by a light bar, a redesigned bumper, and a more pronounced tailgate. While the Kia Seltos come with evolutionary changes, it retains its sharp and sporty design. However, it gets sleeker LED headlamps, a new grille, and a new bumper. The rear side gets updated LED taillights with a connected chrome strip, a spoiler, and a dual-tone bumper.
Hyundai Creta vs Kia Seltos: Interiors and Features
The upcoming Creta facelift gets a premium interior with a 10.25-inch touchscreen, a digital instrument cluster, ventilated seats, and a panoramic sunroof. It also gets advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) like lane departure warning and blind-spot monitoring. On the other hand, the Kia Seltos also comes with a similar feature set, including a 10.25-inch touchscreen, a digital instrument cluster, ventilated seats, and a panoramic sunroof. It also offers ADAS features such as forward collision warning and automatic emergency braking.
Hyundai Creta vs Kia Seltos: Powertrain
Hyundai Creta upgrade is expected to retain the same 1.5 litre naturally aspirated petrol and diesel engine. Additionally, the Hyundai Creta Facelift will also get a new 1.5-litre turbo petrol engine mated to a six-speed manual and seven-speed DCT transmission unit. On the other hand, the Seltos facelift comes with three engine variants – 1.5-litre petrol, 1.5-litre turbo-petrol and 1.5-litre diesel.
Hyundai Creta vs Kia Seltos: Price
Hyundai Creta facelift is expected to be priced higher than the existing model of the sub-compact SUV. The Kia Seltos facelift comes with a starting price tag of Rs. 10.89 lakh which goes up to 20.30 lakh (ex-showroom) in India.
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