Hyundai-Sime Darby Motors (HSDM) has begun teasing a new, 10-seat variant of the Staria, which was sighted in spyshots earlier this month. “Something huge will be greeting you soon,” the company captioned a shadowy image posted to its social media pages.
The Staria was first launched here last October and is currently available as the 2.2D Premium, which is a seven-seater priced at RM366,768 on-the-road without insurance. For now, HSDM did not provide any official details of the 10-seat variant joining the line-up, but prior spyshots suggest it will have a revised kit list compared to the 2.2D Premium.
Changes include a more basic head unit in place of an eight-inch touchscreen, a traditional gear lever instead of buttons for the transmission, plus simpler air-conditioning controls. Carry over items appear to be leather upholstery and a digital instrument cluster.
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Posted by Hyundai Malaysia on Friday, 26 August 2022
Elsewhere, the large front grille has a different design and is body-coloured without the 2.2D Premium’s gloss black finish and parametric-inspired trim piece. The headlamps also appear to be halogen-type units instead of LEDs on the current sole variant.
The 2.2D Premium’s seven seats are spread across three rows in a 2-2-3 layout with second-row captain chairs, but the 10-seater sports four rows in a 2-3-2-3 arrangement. Air vents are still located in the ceiling, which doesn’t get an Alcantara headliner, and the frontmost row comes with a folding centre console.
We expect the 10-seater to use the same powertrain as the 2.2D Premium, which features a 2.2 litre four-cylinder turbodiesel rated at 177 PS and 431 Nm of torque and paired with an eight-speed automatic transmission sending drive to the front wheels.
There are some markets that call this model the Hyundai Staria 11-seater but the extra seat is in the first row, making it a 3-3-2-3 configuration. However the middle seat of the first row does not have a proper three-point seat belt so it cannot be considered an official 11th seat in Malaysia.
No official launch date has been revealed just yet, but it shouldn’t be long before the new Staria variant goes on sale. If you can make do without some of the 2.2D Premium’s features in favour of some extra seats, the 10-seat variant may be a good fit, possibly at a lower price point?
It’s been speculated that the 10-seat Staria could be a replacement for the current, 11-seat Grand Starex, which is classified as a commercial vehicle and available in Executive Plus guise for RM165,888. However, HSDM has said in the past that the Grand Starex would continue to be sold alongside the Staria in Malaysia, as each have their own target segments. We’ll have to wait and see if the company sticks to this approach.
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Time to replace this old junk car
Replace the starex and sell this at the same price and voila this mpv will be very ubiquitous just like alphard/vellfire in terms of presence not price or status…or if the price is the same as carnival people will surely opt for this because of its unique and flamboyant design…
Current Starex also CBU Korea.
Staria 11 seater Korea also only 29320000krw/RM99k, similar 10 +1 fron arm rest seat.
Good replacement to discontinued Starex @ Korea, sold out stock..
Now a affordable replacement as people carrier.
can this car compete with new Carnival? Bermaz have good track record in aftersales compared to sime darby
It is not practical to park these MPV including Canival n Alphard in 80% of the hotels in big city which have spiral parking route, it is very challenging even for normal sedan
Ceh! Most of these are parked outside the lobby like a baws. The only reason you park in spiral carpark is cuz you did not really earn the right to buy one of these cars and join the rich crowd.
Is it just me or is the car damn freaking ugly?
I would say the staria came out wrong timing. This look it should be autonomous MPV come to fetch you. This look with human driver look so wrong!
Both staria and starex have awd version which are not offered here. Otherwise it would be perfect since mitsubishi delica are not sold locally.
that’s our brand new car right now thanks God its so big and nice for us one big family.
very nice car it’s convenient.