Hindustan Motors will use Hyundai diesel engines for the rural transport vehicles it launched last year. These vehicles are at present fitted with powerful Isuzu engines, but the company is understood to have received complaints about their power and pulling capacity.

The company plans to sign an agreement with Hyundai Space & Aircraft, which produces the 2,600-cc diesel engines, for their import. Later HM will make the engines in India. The HM management is reported to have said that it preferred Hyundai over Mitsubishi, with whom HM has a technical collaboration for the manufacture of Lancer cars.

The company intends to buy 2,000 Hyundai engines in the current year. The figure is expected to go up to 3,500 engines next year.

The Hyundai engine has been proved to be better than the 56-HP Isuzu engine used in rural transport vehicles. The Isuzu engines are currently made at the HM plant in Indore.

The rural transport vehicles with Hyundai engines will be ranged against Mahindra & Mahindra's MM540, an eight-seater vehicle.

Some of the comparative features of Hyundai and Izuzu engines are:

	Hyundai	Izuzu
Torque	17/2200 kg/rpm	11/2500 kg/rp,
Power	85/4000 ps/rpm	56/4500 ps/rpm
Weight	194 kg	205 kg
Gears	5 forward, 1 reverse	4 forward, 1 reverse
Displacement	2607	1995