Phased delivery of Low-priced made-in-Nigeria cars assembled at the Lagos plant of Hyundai Motors Nigeria Limited have been started to its provisional dealers nationwide. This is coming barely three months after Stallion Group owners of the multivehicle plant roll-out made-in-Nigeria Nissan range of vehicles in April.
The news was broken recently by the The Chairman of Stallion Group, Mr. Sunil Vaswani who said that new vehicles “will be affordably priced” in other to give Nigerians a break from the stranglehold of wholesale vehicle importers. Some of the deliveries in the passenger car segment are Hyundai i10, Grand, Elantra and iX35 SUV, while the 10-ton HD160; seven-ton HD 120; five-ton HD78 and three-ton HD65 constitute vehicles in the light commercial vehicle segment and 28+1 seater Hyundai County bus and 30-seater Stallion County are in the commuter bus category.
The starting price will be between NGN1.5m and NGN1.9m for the i10 and Grand models respectively.
Hyundai Motors Nigeria plant Managing Director, Tokunbo Aromolaran has said the vehicles are built to the world’s highest automotive operating standard – ISO/TS 16949.
The ISO/TS 16949 is the highest automotive operating standard in the world and its benefits include improved quality processes with streaming supply chains that leads to better overall product, Mr. Aromalaran explained.
Hyundai i10, Grand, Elantra and iX35 SUV are elegantly crafted functional cars with eye-popping styling, good fuel economy with fantastic driving experience and modest starting price for every desiring buyer.
Mr. Parvir Singh, Group Managing Director (sale, marketing and Dealer Development) Hyundai Motors Nigeria Limited who received the made-in-Nigeria vehicles on behalf of provisional dealers described the accomplishment as a milestone in the history of Nigeria’s evolving automotive industry, urging customers to take advantage of the discounted price to patronize certified made-in-Nigeria Hyundai vehicles.
