How Does MG Hector Fare Against The Tata Harrier And Hyundai Creta?

The MG Hector’s aggressive pricing puts it in the crosshairs of the Tata Harrier and the Hyundai Creta. Each one shines somewhere, but flounders elsewhere. Which one should you be writing out that cheque for?

- Aatish Mishra

“HEY MG.”

Say that when you’re sitting in the MG and the Hector will talk back to you in a thick British accent. No, not to entertain you with conversation when you’re doing a 15-hour highway stint but to make sure you don’t have to take your hands off the wheel every time you want to adjust the volume or open the sunroof. The Hector is voice-command enabled, and that’s just one of the many connectivity features on the SUV with the boastful, and borderline tacky ‘Internet Inside’ badge on it.

Hector is an important launch. It is MG Motor’s first car for India and it sits in a segment which has seen huge success. Look at the Hyundai Creta! When it was launched, questions about whether people would pay 15 lakh for something with a Hyundai badge was being thrown around, but it still consistently sells 10k units a month four years on – at least it used to until the Hector rocked up. The Hector goes head to head with the aging Hyundai, yes, but there’s another, even more, a direct rival in the mix – the Tata Harrier. It might have taken abnormally long for Tata Motors to do the obvious but they’ve finally gotten hold of a Land Rover platform and the result is their most polished vehicle to date. But which of these three is really the best?

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