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Hyundai has equipped the Grand i10 Nios with a peppy turbo petrol motor. Does the new engine make it marginally quicker or there's more zing on offer? We find out.
Small turbo petrol engines - the sort of engines you see in all kinds of cars apart from, quite ironically, small hatchbacks. Come to think of it, if there's is a kind of vehicle to which these peppy and frugal engines belong the most, it has to be the hatchback. But, because they're expensive, and India is a price-sensitive market, carmakers don't seem too keen on the idea of turbo engines under the hood of mass-market hatchbacks. Sure, the likes of Maruti Suzuki Baleno RS and Tata Tiago JTP spiced things up with 1.0-litre turbo motors, but both...