Car of the Year : KIA SELTOS

- Deval Mehta

                      KIA SELTOS (icoty)

With more than 50,000 units sold & with a whopping 6 month waiting, Seltos has taken the Indian market with storm and that's why it deserves the "Indian Car of the Year" award.

The Seltos is the debut production of Kia in India. The Seltos is attractive, keenly priced and comes with a wide range of engine and gearbox options.

Upfront is a radically different looking face with the signature Tiger Nose grille, LED headlights which KIA has named Crown Jewel and LED DRLs called the Heartbeat DRLs. The vertically stacked fog lamps are called Ice Cube led lamps.

There are a variety of trim options right from an all-black theme to dual tone and more. Kia Seltos gets a slick 10.2-inch touchscreens, the instrument cluster is easy to read and there’s even head-up display. A powered driver’s seat, ventilated front seats, ambient lighting, a 360-degree parking camera and even an onboard air purifier are other features offered on the Seltos.

KIA offers 1.5-litre petrol, 1.4-litre turbo-petrol and 1.5-litre Diesel engines. Both the petrol and diesel engines have manual and automatic gearbox options. All the engines of Seltos are BS6  compliant from launch.

In terms of features, the Seltos is loaded to the brim with many features some of which are segment-first and also India-first. The features include a 8-inch heads up display, Bose speakers with ambient lighting, air purifier, inbuilt perfume diffuser, inbuilt rear sunshade, 8-way adjustable seats, tyre pressure monitoring system to name a few.

So many features offered in this price money with the apt advertisement caused the KIA Seltos to be such a bomb in the market. (TATA Motors marketing team left the chat).