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Commanding a premium of just Rs. 15,000 over its standard manual counterpart, the Venue IMT is here to expand the horizons for convenient clutchless driving. We get behind the wheel of the new Hyundai Venue IMT to see how it performs in the real world.

In 2019, the share of automatic passenger cars against manual models stood at 17.3 per cent, as per estimated industry figures. For context, this percentage stood at just 1.4 per cent in 2011. So the growth of automatic car purchases has been significant in recent years. And it was one particular car that kick-started this revolution, the Celerio AMT. Research from CRISIL and Deloitte state that it was indeed the Automated Manual Transmission that democratised...