Hyundai Motor India on Friday has raised prices of its vehicles by up to Rs 82,906 across models on account of new levies announced in the Budget 2016.

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The price hike effective from March 1 will be between Rs 2,889 and Rs 82,906 depending on the model, Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL) said in a statement.

The company sells a range of vehicles from entry level small car Eon with price starting at Rs 3.20 lakh to luxury sports utility vehicle (SUV) Santa Fe tagged at Rs 30.79 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi).

HMIL Senior Vice-President (Sales and Marketing) Rakesh Srivastava said, "The new levies in the Union Budget 2016-17 have led to price increase across the models ranging from Rs 2,889 to Rs 82,906...The change in price value equations could alter the overall demand from with-in the segment to across the segments and fuel types."

On Thursday, Maruti Suzuki India had hiked prices of its vehicles across models in the range of Rs 1,441 to Rs 34,494 in order to offset the impact of infrastructure cess.

Already, German luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz and Tata Motors have announced to raise prices of their entire product portfolios.

While Mercedes-Benz has announced to hike prices by up to Rs 5 lakh from March 15, Tata Motors has raised prices of its passenger vehicles in the range of Rs 2,000 and Rs 35,000.

The government has decided to impose 2.5% cess on diesel vehicles of length not exceeding 4 meters and engine capacity not exceeding 1,500 Cubic Centimetres (cc) while higher engine capacity and SUVs and bigger sedans were slapped with a cess of 4% on the value of the car.

These are over and above a cess of 1% on petrol/ LPG/CNG driven vehicles of length not exceeding 4 meters and engine capacity not exceeding 1,200 cc.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has also proposed to collect tax at source at the rate of 1% on purchase of luxury cars exceeding the value of Rs 10 lakh.