Mahindra to Introduce Petrol Variants For All Models From 2018

Mahindra & Mahindra, India’s leading utility vehicle manufacturer has decided to launch petrol variants for all of its models from 2018.

Pawan Goenka, executive director, M&M said, “Any product that we launch from a year after will come with a petrol engine. We are currently working on a 1.5-litre petrol engine. So the petrol engines powering the future vehicles will be either of the three: 1.2, 1.5 or 2.0 litre.”

After the judgment of The Supreme Court to ban the registration of diesel vehicles along with engine capacity over 2000cc in Delhi-NCR, the customers now shifted their preference to petrol cars. The Autocar manufacturers are also pushing their petrol variants to increase the sales part. Mahindra has recently launched a 1.9-litre version of the company’s mHawk diesel engine for Scorpio and XUV500 in its key marketplace Delhi-NCR.

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According to SIAM (Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers), the shares of diesel variants among the total sales of passenger vehicles fall off to 41 per cent from 44 per cent during April-June 2016-17 whereas the shares of petrol variants increased to 59 per cent to 56 per cent.

Goenka stated that “The demand for petrol variants of the KUV 100 has been more anticipated.” 50% of the buyers have opted petrol variant of KUV 100, launched earlier this year, which is more than the company’s expectation of 40 per cent.