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Mumbai. Car industry is going to see several changes from the next fiscal year. So, if you are planning to buy a car, then this news is useful for you because after four days, i.e. after 1 April 2023, 17 cars will be discontinued in the Indian car market. Most of these include 5 cars from Honda, 3 from Mahindra, 2-2 from Hyundai and Skoda, one each from Renault, Nishan, Maruti Suzuki, Toyota and Tata. Mostly these are the diesel cars. If you have any of these cars on your list then you might be in trouble. Actually, after April 1, 2023, the new emission norms of Real Driving Emission (RDE) will come into force in the Indian auto industry. As soon as these rules are implemented, the car manufacturers will have to either update the engines of their cars or they will have to be discontinued.

BS6 Phase-2 rules will come into effect

According to the RDE of vehicles, the BS6 Phase-2 rules will come into effect from April 1. In such a situation, it will be difficult for these vehicles to meet the RDE norms in the real world condition and the car maker companies will have to stop selling the vehicles. In view of the strictness of the government, Hyundai Motor India has already discontinued the diesel variant of its i20 car. Earlier Toyota and Volkswagen have also announced to discontinue their diesel cars. To make vehicles compliant with the new emission norms, automakers are increasing prices as the engines of existing models have to be updated. Last time in 2020, BS6 standard engines were introduced, due to which the prices of cars increased between 50 to 90 thousand rupees and the price of two-wheelers increased between 3 to 10 thousand rupees.

Prices have also gone up

This was because, around 70 thousand crores were invested by the car manufacturers to upgrade the technology and the cost was passed on to the consumers. That's why this time also some companies have increased the prices of vehicles and some companies are going to increase it. With the introduction of new norms, most people are avoiding buying diesel vehicles and are focusing on petrol vehicles. At the same time, car makers are also discontinuing the sale of their diesel vehicles one by one. However, these vehicles will continue to be serviced even after the sale is stopped. But, still people are hesitating to buy these cars. One reason for this is that in places like Delhi, there is a ban on diesel vehicles that are more than 10 years old. Whereas, petrol vehicles can be run for 15 years.