SUVs With an Auto-Dimming IRVM in India (2026)

Twelve SUVs on sale in India fit an auto-dimming inside rear-view mirror, and on every one of them it is locked to a particular variant. Nine of the twelve can be ranked, because their makers publish a variant price. The cheapest way into the feature is the Maruti Fronx Alpha at Rs 10,59,500, followed by the Mahindra XUV 3XO AX5 L at Rs 12,02,500 and the Maruti Brezza ZXi+ AT at Rs 13,55,100. The Maruti Victoris ZXi at Rs 13,61,900 and the Maruti Grand Vitara Zeta at Rs 13,85,000 are next, and after that the price of entry jumps: the Hyundai Creta wants Rs 17,27,800 for its King variant and the Mahindra Scorpio N Rs 20,37,848 for a Z8T.

What matters here is not what a model costs but what the qualifying variant costs. The Mahindra XUV 3XO starts at Rs 7,79,000 and the Scorpio N at Rs 13,69,000, yet the gap between those two cars at the point where the mirror appears is more than Rs 8 lakh. Two popular SUVs do not offer it at any price, and one of them is a Maruti.

Where the mirror starts, SUV by SUV

Every figure below is the single-tone ex-showroom price of the cheapest variant whose maker's own feature grid marks the auto-dimming mirror as fitted. Prices were read on 15 October 2026.

SUV	Cheapest variant with the mirror	Price of that variant	Model starts at	Below it, the mirror is
Maruti Fronx	Alpha 1.0 turbo MT	Rs 10,59,500	Rs 6,89,900	manual day and night
Mahindra XUV 3XO	AX5 L TGDi petrol	Rs 12,02,500	Rs 7,79,000	not listed as fitted
Maruti Brezza	ZXi+ AT	Rs 13,55,100	Rs 7,49,900	manual day and night
Maruti Victoris	ZXi MT	Rs 13,61,900	Rs 10,49,900	manual day and night
Maruti Grand Vitara	Zeta MT	Rs 13,85,000	Rs 10,76,500	manual day and night
Hyundai Creta	King 1.5 MPi MT	Rs 17,27,800	Rs 10,90,700	day and night, with telematics switches on SX trims
MG Hector	Sharp Pro 1.5 turbo MT	Rs 17,49,800	Rs 11,99,000	not fitted
Mahindra Thar Roxx	Star Edition diesel 2WD	Rs 17,97,000	Rs 12,52,000	day and night
Mahindra Scorpio N	Z8T petrol 2WD	Rs 20,37,848	Rs 13,69,000	not fitted

Prices are ex-showroom and were read from each maker's own price page. Confirm current pricing with a dealer before you buy.

What the mirror actually does

An electrochromic mirror carries a light sensor at the front and another at the back. When the rear sensor reads much more light than the front one, a gel layer between the glass darkens and the reflection drops. Daylight leaves both sensors reading bright, so nothing happens.

A manual day and night mirror achieves roughly the same thing with a flip tab underneath. It works. The catch is that you have to notice the glare, reach up, flip it, and then remember to flip it back, and on a dark highway with a truck sitting behind you the first and last of those steps are the ones people skip.

The four Marutis, and how far apart they are

Maruti fits the feature to four of its SUVs and skips it on the fifth, and the entry points are spread over Rs 3.25 lakh.

Maruti Fronx, from Rs 10,59,500

The Fronx grid runs Sigma, Delta, Delta+, Zeta and Alpha, and the inside mirror row reads Manual for the first four and Auto only for the Alpha. That makes the Alpha the cheapest SUV in India with the feature, and it arrives alongside the 360-degree camera and the head-up display on the same trim.

The Alpha is turbo only. Maruti pairs it with the 1.0-litre Boosterjet, which means the cheapest route to an auto-dimming mirror in an SUV also commits you to the pricier engine. A Zeta at Rs 9,75,900 is Rs 83,600 less and has the flip tab.

Maruti Brezza, from Rs 13,55,100

Brezza variants are LXi, VXi, ZXi and ZXi+, and the brochure row reads Manual, Manual, Manual, Auto. The mirror is a ZXi+ item and the engine makes no difference to it, which is worth saying because the 360-degree camera on this car does behave differently by engine. Maruti's own price card for the ZXi+ AT lists the 360-degree camera among its three headline features, so both arrive together on the automatic.

Maruti Victoris, from Rs 13,61,900

The Victoris grid is the clearest of the four. Day and Night Adjustable IRVM reads Manual under LXi and VXi, Auto under ZXi and ZXi (O), and Auto under ZXi+ and ZXi+ (O). Six airbags, electronic stability program, hill hold and a rear parking camera are already on the VXi, so the ZXi step buys you the mirror, LED projector headlamps, alloy wheels and the wireless charger rather than the safety basics.

Level 2 driver assistance on this car is a separate and much later purchase. It is on the ZXi+ 6AT at Rs 17,33,900 and nowhere below it.

Maruti Grand Vitara, from Rs 13,85,000

Seven columns on the Grand Vitara grid, and the mirror row reads Manual, Manual, Auto, Auto, Manual, Auto, Auto across Sigma, Delta, Zeta, Alpha, Delta+, Zeta+ and Alpha+. The odd one out is the Delta+, the cheapest strong hybrid, which costs Rs 16,68,300 and still gets the flip tab. If you want the hybrid and the mirror you are looking at the Zeta+ instead.

Maruti Jimny, not at any price

The Jimny brochure lists one mirror for both of its variants and calls it Manual Day/Night IRVM. Zeta PRO at Rs 12,59,000 and Alpha PRO at Rs 13,45,700 get the same part. For a car sold on night and rough-road ability that is a strange omission, and no amount of money inside the Jimny range fixes it.

The rivals, and where they put it

The Mahindra XUV 3XO is the surprise of this list. Mahindra adds the auto-dimming mirror on the AX5 L, which lists at Rs 12,02,500 for the TGDi petrol, and the same trim brings Level 2 driver assistance, a 360-degree camera with blind view monitor and an electronic parking brake. Nothing else here gives you the mirror and a full assistance suite for under Rs 13 lakh.

The Hyundai Creta holds it back a long way. Hyundai's grid splits the inside mirror three ways across ten variants: a plain day and night mirror on E, EX, EX(O), S(O) and S(O) Knight, the same mirror with telematics switches on SX and SX Premium, and the electrochromic mirror only on King, King Knight and the Lounge Edition. A Creta SX Premium at Rs 16,34,200 has a panoramic sunroof and no auto-dimming mirror.

The MG Hector puts it on the Sharp Pro and Savvy Pro only. MG's price list, effective 1 July 2026, puts the cheapest of those at Rs 17,49,800 for the five-seat Sharp Pro manual, with the seven-seater Rs 50,000 more.

The two big Mahindras behave differently from each other. On the Thar Roxx the mirror row splits cleanly: MX1, MX3, AX3L, MX5 and AX5L get day and night, the Star Edition and AX7L get auto-dimming. The Star Edition diesel 2WD at Rs 17,97,000 is the cheapest of those, and it undercuts the AX7L by Rs 1.6 lakh. On the Scorpio N the mirror waits until the Z8T, which is the second-from-top trim and the point at which Mahindra also switches on driver drowsiness detection and the e-call switch.

Three more that have it, and one more that does not

Three SUVs clear the feature test but could not be ranked, because their makers do not publish a variant-wise price we can read.

SUV	Variant where it starts	Why there is no price here
Honda Elevate	ZX, ZX+ and ZX+ Black	Honda quotes prices by city through a form and publishes no variant price list
Hyundai Venue	HX 10, the top variant	Hyundai's Venue price table did not render on 15 October 2026
Toyota Urban Cruiser Hyryder	G on the CNG car, G(O) and V on Neodrive and Hybrid	Toyota's price list requires a dealer to be selected first

Honda's Elevate grid is the tidiest of the three. Day and night mirror on all six variants, auto-dimming with a frameless design added from the ZX up, which is also where Honda Sensing begins.

The Hyundai Exter is the one that joins the Jimny in offering nothing. Hyundai marks a day and night mirror as standard on all nine variants from HX 2 to HX 10 and lists no electrochromic option anywhere in the range.

How this list was built, and what is not verified

For each SUV we opened the manufacturer's variant-wise feature grid, found the inside-mirror row, and took the first column marked Auto, Auto Dimming or Electro Chromic. Marketing pages were not used, because they describe the top trim. Where a brochure prints the mirror type per column, as the Maruti and Hyundai ones do, that column wins over anything written elsewhere.

Prices came from Maruti's Arena and NEXA price pages, Hyundai's Creta price page, Mahindra's model pages and MG's printed price list. Three things are worth flagging.

Maruti's price cards lead with the dual-tone colour on ZXi, Zeta and Alpha trims, which is Rs 15,400 above the single-tone car. The figures in the table above are single-tone, so they are Rs 15,400 below what you will see on screen for the Fronx Alpha, Brezza ZXi+, Victoris ZXi and Grand Vitara Zeta.

Maruti's Brezza price page renders only three variant cards, so we could read the ZXi+ AT at Rs 13,70,500 dual tone but not the ZXi+ Turbo MT. If that variant turns out to be cheaper, the Brezza moves up this ranking. The feature itself is not in doubt, because the brochure marks the whole ZXi+ column Auto.

We did not test how well any of these mirrors dim. A brochure tells you whether the part is fitted and nothing about how good it is. The Tata range was left out of the table for the same reason the three above were: Tata's Nexon brochure lists an auto-dimming IRVM among its upper-trim features without a column-by-column grid we could read, so we could not say which variant it starts on.

Is it worth moving up a trim for?

On its own, rarely. Aftermarket electrochromic mirrors exist and are not expensive.

It is more useful as a signal of how hard a maker has stripped a variant. The Fronx Alpha, XUV 3XO AX5 L and Victoris ZXi all pair the mirror with the other things you actually notice after dark, which is auto headlamps, LED projectors and a reverse camera. The Creta SX Premium and the Grand Vitara Delta+ are the counter-examples, both well equipped in other respects and both still on a flip tab.

If you are shortlisting on night-driving kit more broadly, our lists of SUVs with a 360-degree camera and SUVs with ADAS under Rs 20 lakh cover the features that usually arrive on the same trims.

Frequently asked questions

Which is the cheapest SUV in India with an auto-dimming IRVM?

The Maruti Fronx Alpha at Rs 10,59,500 ex-showroom, single tone. It is the only Fronx variant with the feature and it is turbo petrol only.

Does the base Maruti Victoris have an auto-dimming mirror?

No. The Victoris brochure marks the LXi and VXi as Manual and the ZXi, ZXi (O), ZXi+ and ZXi+ (O) as Auto. The cheapest Victoris with it is the ZXi MT at Rs 13,61,900.

Does the Maruti Jimny have an auto-dimming IRVM?

No. The brochure lists a Manual Day/Night IRVM for both the Zeta PRO and the Alpha PRO, so no Jimny variant has one from the factory.

Which Hyundai Creta variants get the electrochromic mirror?

Three of ten: King, King Knight and the Lounge Edition. The cheapest is the King 1.5 MPi manual at Rs 17,27,800. The SX and SX Premium get a day and night mirror with telematics switches instead.

Is the Maruti Brezza's auto-dimming mirror tied to the turbo engine?

No. The brochure marks the entire ZXi+ column Auto, with no engine qualifier. The 360-degree camera is the feature on this car that varies with the engine.

Does the Mahindra Thar Roxx AX7L have it?

Yes, and so does the Star Edition, which is Rs 1.6 lakh cheaper at Rs 17,97,000 for the diesel 2WD. MX1, MX3, AX3L, MX5 and AX5L get a day and night mirror.

Can an auto-dimming mirror be retrofitted?

Usually, but check what the original housing carries first. Hyundai's wording, day and night mirror with telematics switches, is a reminder that the mirror on a newer car often holds buttons for other systems that an aftermarket unit will not replace.