Hyundai's new Bayon lands under the Creta and aims at our Seltos. But there's no turbo, no DCT
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Spent my morning coffee reading the Bayon launch piece on our newsroom (here), and the gearbox nerd in me went quiet for a second.
Hyundai has slotted it just below the Creta, from roughly ₹10 lakh, and Autocar's launch report lists only the 1.5 naturally aspirated petrol with a manual or a CVT. It is named as a Seltos rival. So the car coming for us has no turbo and no dual clutch.
I bought my GTX Plus specifically for the 1.5 turbo DCT, and the way it holds a gear on the ORR ramps is still my favourite thing about owning it. A CVT crossover would not have won me over, though I will admit it is probably the smarter buy for pure city crawling.
Would any of you have looked at it instead?
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