Volkswagen Vento DSG vs Skoda Rapid vs Hyundai Verna AT: Diesel Automatic Specification Comparison
- 10 years ago
For a country like India, where fuel prices don’t stop fleeing northwards and traffic snarls getting longer than before, ‘diesel automatics’ are boon to the audience who resides in metro cities. Looking to such scenarios we undertook this comparison as a serious note and placed new Vento, Rapid with DSG against the Verna automatic. So, it’s interesting to see which diesel automatic sedan spurs the best result out of the game.
Engine
On the powering front, Vento and Rapid both are belted by the same engine of 1.5L powering out 103bhp and 250Nm of torque mated to a seven-speed DSG gearbox. The Hyundai Verna on the other side is fixed with 1.6L CRDi engine getting out the max power of 126bhp and 260NM of torque, mated to a 4-speed automatic.
Hence, amongst the lot, Hyundai fares best with the most powerful engine.
Fuel-Efficiency
As DSG gearboxes deliver better economy, both the cars of Skoda and VW delivers near to 22 kilometer per liter, where the Hyundai is beaten down at a not so impressive 17kmpl.
Dimension
Dimensionally, Rapid and Vento are similar on the height and width, except the length where Rapid is longer by a mere 2mm and 3mm higher than its German sibling. On the flipside, Korean’s offering is quite shrugged than the rest, which only fares 1mm broader than them. In fact, Verna’s wheelbase is the longest, but the ground clearance is lowest amongst its rivals.
Overview
As on paper, there aren’t many differences between the Vento and Rapid, but Verna decided to stand a leap apart. Hence, from the said suggestion it can be taken note VW and Skoda stand hand-in-hand to beat down Hyundai, but in reality all three are largely different from each other.
So, keeping your parachute wide open pen down your thoughts in the comments section below…
Engine
On the powering front, Vento and Rapid both are belted by the same engine of 1.5L powering out 103bhp and 250Nm of torque mated to a seven-speed DSG gearbox. The Hyundai Verna on the other side is fixed with 1.6L CRDi engine getting out the max power of 126bhp and 260NM of torque, mated to a 4-speed automatic.
Hence, amongst the lot, Hyundai fares best with the most powerful engine.
Fuel-Efficiency
As DSG gearboxes deliver better economy, both the cars of Skoda and VW delivers near to 22 kilometer per liter, where the Hyundai is beaten down at a not so impressive 17kmpl.
Dimension
Dimensionally, Rapid and Vento are similar on the height and width, except the length where Rapid is longer by a mere 2mm and 3mm higher than its German sibling. On the flipside, Korean’s offering is quite shrugged than the rest, which only fares 1mm broader than them. In fact, Verna’s wheelbase is the longest, but the ground clearance is lowest amongst its rivals.
Overview
As on paper, there aren’t many differences between the Vento and Rapid, but Verna decided to stand a leap apart. Hence, from the said suggestion it can be taken note VW and Skoda stand hand-in-hand to beat down Hyundai, but in reality all three are largely different from each other.
So, keeping your parachute wide open pen down your thoughts in the comments section below…