Kia Seltos on-road price in Chennai, Tamil Nadu (2026)

Is the dearer Seltos worth it in Tamil Nadu?

The best-covered upgrade on this car is HTK 1.5 Petrol IVT to HTK(O) 1.5 Petrol IVT. In Tamil Nadu that costs ₹1,36,598 more on the road — against ₹1,10,000 ex-showroom, because road tax is banded on the sticker price — and it adds ₹1,22,000 of equipment we price, 110% of the ex-showroom rise.

• Dual-Pane Panoramic Sunroof · ₹55,000
• Front Ventilated Seats · ₹28,000
• 8-Way Powered Driver Seat · ₹22,000
• Wireless Phone Charger · ₹7,000
• Front Parking Sensors · ₹6,000

Kia Seltos on-road price in Chennai and across Tamil Nadu

These are the figures for every city in Tamil Nadu. Road tax is set by the state, not the city, so the HTE 1.5 Petrol MT costs the same ₹14,00,001 to put on the road in Chennai as it does in Coimbatore. The only thing that moves between showrooms is the dealer handling charge, which is not a published figure — so it is not in any total on this page.

• Chennai
• Coimbatore
• Erode
• Madurai
• Salem
• Tiruchirappalli (Trichy)
• Tirunelveli
• Vellore

What Tamil Nadu charges

Tamil Nadu bands the rate by ex-showroom price, from 12% to 20%. The HTE 1.5 Petrol MT pays ₹2,02,482 of road tax on its ₹11,24,900 ex-showroom price, plus ₹2,025 of cess — the ₹2,04,507 the table shows. That cess is 0.18% of ex-showroom, and we bill it because it appears at exactly that rate on every invoice we checked, in all 36 states and union territories. We have not found the notification that sets it, so we describe it rather than name it.

Tamil Nadu taxes diesel up to 1 percentage point higher than petrol, so the same trim costs more to register on that fuel here than the ex-showroom gap suggests.

The tax boundary to watch in Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu re-rates the whole price once a car crosses a band, so a small move up the range can cost several times its ex-showroom difference. On the Kia Seltos, 2 variants do this.

• GTX(A) 1.5 Turbo Petrol DCT → GTX(O) 1.5 Turbo Petrol DCT

  ₹1,57,000 more ex-showroom becomes ₹2,38,100 more on the road — ₹81,100 of it from crossing the ₹20,00,000 line, where the rate goes from 18% to 20%.

• GTX 1.5 Diesel AT → GTX(A) 1.5 Diesel AT

  ₹32,500 more ex-showroom becomes ₹81,006 more on the road — ₹48,506 of it from crossing the ₹20,00,000 line, where the rate goes from 18% to 20%.

Worth knowing before you pick a trim: our verdict on whether the equipment justifies the gap is based on the ex-showroom difference, and in Tamil Nadu these upgrades cost more than that.

Kia Seltos on-road price in other states

Not sure which applies to you? See all 36 states on one page.