Kia Carens MY2024 Updates Announced: Prices Hiked, Diesel MT Added And Others

The Carens MPV’s variant-wise features have been thoroughly reshuffled, and now includes a new 6-seater variant priced just above Rs 12 lakh

• Carens’ variant list has been reshuffled with three new variants that make premium comforts more affordable.

• MPV now gets the choice of a proper 3-pedal manual with the diesel engine, iMT still on sale from mid-spec variant onwards.

• Carens 6-seater layout now offered in a lower variant, making it more affordable by over Rs 5 lakh.

• Existing variants also updated with more features from higher variants.

• New prices for Carens range from Rs 10.52 lakh to Rs 19.67 lakh (ex-showroom).

Kia has finished the rollout of MY2024 updates for its current lineup in India, following the latest announcement detailing the changes for the Kia Carens MPV. It now gets the choice of a proper three-pedal manual transmission for the diesel engine, new variants that make the 6-seater layout a lot more affordable, and some feature revisions for the lower variants. Here’s the full breakdown:

New Kia Carens Variants For 2024

The Carens MPV adds the following (O) variants to its lineup: Premium (O), Prestige (O), Prestige Plus (O). These are offered with the same petrol, turbo-petrol, and diesel powertrain options as the variants they are based on. Here’s what each of these new variant offers over their existing counterparts:

With these updates, the Carens’ lower and middle variants get more feature-loaded and the 6-seater configuration now becomes more affordable by over Rs 5 lakh.

Kia Carens Feature Revisions

Aside from the new variants, the existing variants of the Kia Carens have also been updated, with lower variants now getting more comforts from the higher variants. These variant-wise feature updates are detailed below:

The MPV has also followed the Seltos and Sonet by reintroducing the choice of a proper 6-speed manual for the diesel engine in addition to the iMT (manual without clutch pedal) transmission. With the Carens Luxury variant getting a sunroof as well, the Luxury (O) trim has been discontinued.

Like the MY2024 Kia Seltos, Kia has updated the charge capacity for the fast-charging USB ports from 120W to 180W in the MY2024 Carens. Another borrowed detail from the Seltos SUV for the MY2024 Carens is the Pewter Olive (green-ish) exterior shade that will be offered with all variants except the X-Line.

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MY2024 Kia Carens Prices

The updated prices for the Kia Carens and its new variants, powertrain-wise, are as follows:

• 1.5-Litre Naturally Aspirated Petrol Engine

Most of the new variants are for the benefit of the Carens with the 115 PS petrol engine to broaden its appeal and offer more features with it.

• 1.5-litre Turbo-petrol Engine

While the 160 PS turbo-petrol does get a bit more expensive with the updated variant list, you also get more features with the entry level variant of this powertrain. The biggest price hike seen here is of Rs 27,000.

• 1.5-litre Diesel Engine

The 116 PS diesel engine now gets the choice of a proper manual gearbox, and hence the iMT option has become more expensive since it is only available from the Carens Luxury variant. Even though a 3-pedal manual (MT) has less tech than the 2-pedal manual (iMT) setup, the price hike for those Carens diesel variants means that this powertrain has gotten pricier for those lower variants as well by up to Rs 7,000. The biggest price jump for the MY2024 Carens is with the diesel-iMT Luxury variant of Rs 32,000.

Rivals

The Kia Carens continues to serve as a premium alternative to the likes of the Maruti Ertiga and XL6, while being more affordable than the Toyota Innova Crysta and Toyota Innova Hycross.

All prices stated above are ex-showroom.

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