Amid the SUV onslaught in the Indian market, it is the premium hatchback segment that has also been showing signs of silent growth as the customers are looking for a feature leaden car that is not too large and not too small as well. Among the major options present in the segment are the best-selling Maruti Suzuki Baleno and Hyundai Elite i20 other than Volkswagen Polo, Toyota Glanza, and Honda Jazz. Although the latter three are not that great performers when it comes to sales, they still remain a very prominent choice in the segment. Therefore, today we take a look at the kind of waiting period the customers are looking at when they venture out to buy a car from the premium hatchback segment in the Indian market.
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Maruti Suzuki Baleno |
Hyundai Elite i20 |
VW Polo |
Toyota Glanza |
Honda Jazz |
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|
Delhi |
No waiting |
20 days |
15 days |
No waiting |
1 week |
|
Gurugram |
No waiting |
4 weeks |
15 days |
No waiting |
No waiting |
|
Noida |
3 weeks |
1 month |
15 days |
No waiting |
1 week |
|
Bengaluru |
No waiting |
No waiting |
No waiting |
45 days |
No waiting |
|
Mumbai |
2 weeks |
25 days |
1 month |
No waiting |
No waiting |
|
Hyderabad |
6 weeks |
NA |
15 days |
1 month |
No waiting |
|
Pune |
No waiting |
2 weeks |
No waiting |
3 weeks |
1 week |
|
Chennai |
No waiting |
No waiting |
25 days |
2 months |
2 weeks |
|
Jaipur |
15 days |
20 days |
No waiting |
15 days |
No waiting |
|
Ahmedabad |
No waiting |
No waiting |
No waiting |
3 weeks |
10 days |
|
Lucknow |
4 weeks |
No waiting |
No waiting |
1 month |
No waiting |
|
Kolkata |
6 weeks |
No waiting |
No waiting |
1 month |
No waiting |
|
Chandigarh |
4 weeks |
No waiting |
15 days |
No waiting |
No waiting |
|
Patna |
4 weeks |
15 days |
15 days |
No waiting |
1 month |
|
Indore |
No waiting |
No waiting |
15 days |
No waiting |
2 weeks |
The list above shows that the longest one will have to wait for a car in the segment is six weeks and that car happens to be Maruti Suzuki Baleno. Coming to the second best-seller in the segment, Hyundai Elite i20, one finds that the maximum waiting period for this hatch extends to 25 days for the city of Mumbai. Among the other options in the segment the VW Polo also commands a waiting period of 25 days in Chennai while the newly launched Toyota Glanza commands a waiting period of 45 days, the highest in the list, for the city of Bengaluru. While the Honda Jazz has a highest waiting period of 1 month for the city of Patna.