- By Sohan Ingole
Introduction-
India is massive country with a population over one thirty five crore, this is a huge number and that’s a major cause for pollution with also for increasing numbers of temperature in country. In India most of the regions are boiling hot, not in summer but also in all seasons. And travelling in these heat waves is real struggle for car drivers with for passengers also.
In between all these Indian Automobile manufacturers takes a premium feature in budget cars for this which can help in these sunny situations. The seats are ventilated by air conditioning, as simple as that. Yes, this named as Ventilated seats. We have seen this feature in lots of premium cars and limos, in early 20’s most of the American cars is loaded with this features but as time goes this premium feature is not premium any more.
The born of this crazy tech was founded in 1966 Cadillac Fleetwood, but it only offered the option of heating the seats, not cooling them. In fact, that took more than two decades, with the 1998 Saab 9-5 being the first car ever to be fitted with ventilated seats.
Image Source – Wikipedia
So working of this feature is very interesting, the seats which are used to be seat on has small pores and when we start cooling, the air waves passes through that pores and our back never sweats like a piggy. So we can’t use additionally seat covers for these seats, cause that will block the air circulation. Well this awesome tech has two options or offered in 2 ways. First one is ventilated seats with cooling function, this is the most known or used tech in cars. In the world lots of countries belongs to hot regions, so seats with cooling function are consumers need nowadays.
Image Credits – Mercedes Benz
Second is ventilated seats with heating function, heated seats are the only feature which is offered in only cold regions. UK or USA has almost all the land covered in snow for 5 to 6 months in a year. And thats where we want heated seats where temperature is below -5 degrees. But countries like India or in Asia, we barely found a land which has temperature below 10 degrees. Cause heated seats are not useful here or anywhere which has pleasant temperature.
In India now lots of budget cars are coming with this Ventilated seats , we found 6 pocket friendly cars which gots this cool feature.
- Tata Nexon (XZ Plus Premium + Kaziranga edition + dark edition)
The top end variants of Tata Nexon are coming with Ventilated seats, price of the Nexon starts from 7.5L and goes till 13.94L (Ex-showroom Delhi).
- Kia Sonet (HTX Plus + GTX Plus)
Kia Sonet is already a tech loaded compact suv and also first suv which got Ventilated seats in the segment, the price of this suv starts from 7.15L and goes till 13.79L (Ex-showroom Delhi). We published a detailed review on Kia Sonet, you can check out the article by clicking here.
- Maruti Suzuki XL6 (Alpha Plus)
Maruti Suzuki XL6 is a big MPV and this is a first Indian Maruti car which got Ventilated seats which is a great thing. Recently Maruti launched a its facelift and we got this cool tech inside it, earlier one doesn’t got this. The price of the XL6 starts from 11.29L to 14.55L (Ex-showroom Delhi). We published a detailed report on this updated XL6, you can check it by clicking here.
- Hyundai Verna (SX(o))
Now underrated budget sedan but still has potential, Verna is featured loaded and has multiple drivetrain options as well. We will get ventilated seats in the SX(o) variant. The price of Hyundai Verna starts from 9.40L goes till 15.44L (Ex-showroom Delhi). We published a detailed review on this Verna, you can check it by clicking here.
- Skoda Slavia (Style)
Czech car maker launched this Slavia replacing Rapid and yes, they packaged this vehicle very cleverly. Top end trim (Style) of this Slavia is where we will see Ventilated seats. The price of the Slavia starts from 10.99L goes till 18.39L (Ex-showroom Delhi). We published a detailed review on this German built Sedan, you can read it by clicking here.
- Skoda Kushaq (Style)
Again this German car manufacturers launched their compact suv Kushaq last year and we can see tons of new age tech in this sub compact suv. The price of the Skoda Kushaq starts from 11.29L to 19.49L (Ex-showroom Delhi). We published a detailed review on this Kushaq suv, you can read it by clicking here.
Verdict-
Things are changing and new technology has also coming in budget cars, like this Ventilated Seats are the useful feature in India at least.
Talking about this tech, I think it’s a real boon for India cause, humid and sunny days really need a feature like this where our back can’t sweat like a big Fat Pig. We took only 5 cars here, but still this feature is now available in lots of cars like Hyundai i20, VW Virtus, Hyundai Creta, Kia Seltos, VW Tiagun, Tata Safari.
- Edited By Atharva Patil
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