4-cylinder 1.2L Turbo Petrol Engine Could Become The Base Engine For Creta | V3Cars

Jun 14, 2025, 09:00 AM IST
By Mahesh Yadav
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According to a recent report, Hyundai are working on a new 1.2L turbo petrol engine, which will be compatible with hybrid technology. This engine is primarily being worked upon for the Indian market. And its USP is that this will be the only 4-cylinder 1.2L turbo petrol engine. All small turbo petrol engines in the market currently are 3-cylinder engines.

1.2L Turbo Petrol Could Replace Creta’s 1.5L Normal Petrol Engine

The list of cars with small turbo petrol engines is as follows:

Nexon/Curvv
C3/Basalt/Aircross
XUV3XO
i20 NLine/Venue/Sonet/Syros
Fronx/Taisor
Kiger/Magnite
Kushaq/Taigun/Kylaq/Virtus/Slavia

With a 1.2L turbo petrol engine, Hyundai will still be able to make it available to the smaller cars such as the i20, Venue or Sonet (sister company). Moreover, the larger displacement largely takes care of the psychological angle where smaller engines are presumed to be underpowered.

Although, lately, the success of Virtus, Slavia and somewhat of a success of the Kushaq and Taigun, confirms that our market has matured enough to recognise the value of turbo engines over non turbos. Still, a small bump in displacement is not a bad idea.

The current Creta’s 1.5L non-turbo engine is good but it does not offer the kind of drivability that a 1.2L turbo or even a 1.0L turbo engine can offer. Besides, offering it with the Creta will allow Hyundai to achieve higher economies of scale, helping them contain the manufacturing cost.

Whatever extra cost will come from adding a turbo charger and direct injection will be greatly off-set by the smaller engine block size and a few percentage points worth of taxes, which are levied upon cars with greater than 1199cc engines in cars longer than 4 metres.

Should the government go soft on hybrids, the engine will help Hyundai immediately pivot to a hybrid powertrain option for the Creta (or other cars) with a shorter turnaround time.

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