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Top 10 Passenger Cars – October 2018 | New Hyundai Santro debuts in bestseller’ list in first month of sale

With over 30,000 bookings in hand by the first week of November and Hyundai having despatched enough new Santros to showrooms across the country, expect the new hatchback to be a regular in the Top 10 list.  

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Top 10 Passenger Cars – October 2018 | New Hyundai Santro debuts in bestseller’ list in first month of sale

The new Hyundai Santro, which was launched on October 23 with pricing starting at Rs 389,900, has driven into India's Top 10 best-selling cars list in the very first month – at eighth place – with a total of 8,535 units in October 2018.

Online bookings for the model had commenced on October 10 and typically the Korean carmaker would have shifted considerable stock to its dealers across the country, ensuring the model was in as many showrooms as possible. As is known, the numbers in the monthly  Top 10 list are wholesale despatch numbers and not retails.

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