Maruti Baleno to Honda Jazz; Waiting Period of Premium Hatchbacks in India

Published On: 17 August 2019
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List of Waiting Period on Premium Hatchbacks in Indian Market

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.

	Maruti Suzuki Baleno	Hyundai Elite i20	VW Polo	Toyota Glanza	Honda Jazz
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.