Last month, Hyundai India teased us with a rendering of its upcoming Creta SUV, and now we’re getting a look at the real thing that will be on the roads there starting this fall. We got excited. We shouldn’t have.
-Not surprisingly, the Creta looks like the Hyundai Tucson’s little brother, although while some subcompact crossovers look more expressive than their larger siblings—the Nissan Juke, Jeep Renegade, and Chevrolet Trax come to mind—the Creta looks banal and dated, even before making its market debut.
-The Creta will be powered by a choice of three engines, two diesels and a 1.6-liter gas engine with 121 horsepower. Standard and available features include 17-inch wheels, LED positioning lights, leather seats, and rear-seat air vents, steering-wheel audio controls, and other stuff we sort of take for granted over here but may not be as common in India. Hell, airbags aren’t that common in India, but the Creta has those, too.
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Will it come here? No. “It’s not anything that’s in our long-term plans,” Hyundai PR manager Jim Trainor told us. Although when pressed, he said that it’s fair to say that something along the lines of the Creta is being considered for the U.S. market. We hope that when and if such a vehicle arrives, it will look more like Hyundai’s cool Intrado concept and less like what we see here. A bit more power wouldn’t hurt, too.
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