Mahindra today launched SsangYong
Rexton in India. The Rexton is priced at Rs. 17.67 lakh for manual variant and
the automatic one is priced couple of lakhs more. The Rexton will be
manufactured in South Korea and assembled at Mahindra’s Chakan plant.
The Rexton is poered by a 5
cylinder 2.7 liter turbo diesel engine sourced from Mercedes and will be
offered with 5 speed manual and 5 speed automatic transmission. The engine has
been tuned as required for manual and automatic gearbox to give different power
outputs. The manual gearbox vehicle has 162 Bhp of power and 34.7 Kg of torque
where as the Automatic one has 184 Bhp of power and 42 Kgm of torque.
The Rexton comes in tow variants
RX5 and RX7. The vehicle delivers fuel economy of 12.4 Kmpl (Manual) and 11.18 Kmpl (A/T) (ARAI certified).
In India, Rexton competes with Toyota Fortuner, Hyundai Santa Fe and Mitsubishi
Pajero Sport.
