Indian buyers ready for gearless & clutchless cars
So dealing with such tuff and never changing conditions, more and more people are moving towards the choice of owning an Automatic car that its supposed to be gearless and clutch less, easing out of the pressure on the roads.
Well, traffic has been a problem that is constantly on a high. Each time you step out of the house or return back from office, these endless queues, the noising honking, is indeed effecting our value for time, detoriating our health, and keeping us very busy on the roads, leaving us with no time, for family, health and other precious aspects of our lives.
If you’re in the league of working 9am to 6 pm, then you’re in trouble all the ore, as these are the peak hours of traffic, and the cars move at a snail’s pace. So dealing with such tuff and never changing conditions, more and more people are moving towards the choice of owning an Automatic car that it’s supposed to be gearless and clutch less, easing out of the pressure on the roads.
But the problem is that not many options are readily marketed out here in India. However, now being in trend, many car makers are venturing into this automatic league seeking profit due to its need and demand. But the problem is the less options available, that are either too costly or a very few automatic options in the small car segment.
A blessing in disguise is the Maruti Suzuki’s Celerio, with an AMT, however it’s not completely an automatic, but incorporates some benefits of an Automatic version, like there is no clutch and it also offers a good fuel economy likely to the manual variant. Automatic versions like the AMT, helps in reduction of strain and burden, of driving in the heavy loaded traffic situations in India. In India, Automatic transmissions come equipped in mostly luxury products, but on the whole, about 3-4 percent of passenger vehicles utilize this technology comparative with its at least 90 percent usage in the developed country’s markets.
The number of Indians who demand the AMT technology is increasing and that’s giving a bubble to think on for the car makers to yield a great profit on the new hype. The only problem is the common Indian man, may not be able to afford the automatic version for their rides as the cost part increases by 20-35 percent, and they also exhaust more fuel.
However according to the demand, it has been predicted by experts that the AMT version at least would reach and expand up to 5 lakh by 2020. AMT can be applauded for the indicating change, as it is indeed cheaper, and puts just about 5-10 percent to the price and consumes lesser fuel than most other manual variants. Well, let’s wait and watch, as more and more car makers would be engaged into this trending technology, manual cars might become a thing of the past.