Reports from the US say that Hyundai is considering badging their premium cars as ‘Genesis’, although there will be no Genesis ‘Brand’. The rumours that Hyundai want to move in to Lexus and Infiniti territory by creating a luxury sub-brand – Genesis being the favoured moniker – have been doing the rounds for years. Back [...]
With the 2012 Hyundai i30 due to arrive in the UK in March, Hyundai are starting to promote the car that aims to take on the VW Golf and Ford Focus. The new Hyundai i30 for 2012 arrived at the Frankfurt Motor Show back in September, and it caused a bit of a stir. Not [...]
We have the Hyundai i20 Blue 1.4 CRDi 90PS in for review. Can Hyundai deliver a credible sub-100g/km car to take on Ford’s Fiesta Econetic? Hyundai i20 Review Where do we start with the Hyundai i20 Blue? The first thing to do is throw away your preconceptions; the Hyundai i20 is a very long way [...]
With the 2012 Hyundai i30 due to arrive in the UK in March, Hyundai reveals price and model specification. Starts at £14,495. The 2012 Hyundai i30 was revealed at the Franfurt Motor Show last September, and with the new i30 release date in the UK on 12th March, Hyundai has revealed full price and specification details for the new [...]
The Hyundai Veloster Turbo has debuted at the Detroit Auto Show with more aggressive looks and 201hp from its 1.6 litre Turbo. The Hyundai Veloster Turbo that’s now arrived at the Detroit Auto Show – after a small leak of Veloster Turbo pictures this morning – may not be exactly the same as the Veloster Turbo we’ll [...]
The Hyundai Veloster Turbo will arrive officially later today at the Detroit Motor Show, but we already have the first photos of Hyundai’s hot hatch. Apart from the daft looking Hyundai Hexa Space that turned up at Delhi last week, all Hyundai’s latest offerings have been pretty much on the money, none more so than the very convincing Veloster. But [...]
Hyundai has debuted the Hyundai Hexa Space HND-7 Concept at the Delhi Motor Show, an eight-seat compact MPV. But it’s not a looker. Now the Delhi Motor Show is starting to take on the aura of a world stage Motor Show, it’s hard for a car maker like Hyundai – intent on world domination – to [...]
Hyundai has set up their LED screen in New York’s Times Square so passers-by can play a race game from an iPhone app. You’ve got to hand it to Hyundai – they certainly know how to raise awareness and hit the Zeitgeist. From the modern day equivalent of Lada and Yugo to a serious threat to [...]
Hyundai UK has been busy taking photos and video of the new Veloster Coupe – due in showrooms in 2012 – and we have plenty of both. A couple of months on from the release of model and price details for the Hyundai Veloster in the UK, Hyundai UK has been making the most of [...]
It’s reported that Hyundai are planning a hot hatch GT version of the 3-door i30 due in 2013 with a 200bhp 1.6 litre turbo. With all the progress Hyundai has made in the last few years to become a credible threat to mainstream cars from Europe and Japan, the next step must be in the performance and [...]
Hyundai has revealed a single teaser image of a new concept they will take to the 2012 Geneva Motor Show – the Hyundai i-oniq. What are we to make of the Hyundai i-oniq Concept? Probably, we’re supposed to speculate as to exactly what it could be, as Hyundai aren’t interested in telling us much about it yet. Hyundai do say that [...]
The 2012 Hyundai Genesis Coup – which is not sold in the UK – has been given a new look and new, more powerful, engines. The UK and Europe don’t get the top end of Hyundai’s range – the Genesis and Genesis Coupe – but that could be set to change if the Genesis luxury [...]
Hyundai are planning to launch a new Genesis Coupe and we have an official tease photo. But will the new Genesis Coupe launch the Genesis Brand? The Hyundai Genesis isn’t a car we see this side of the Pond. It’s a grown-up coupe with a proper dose of power and it’s expected the new Genesis will get [...]
Hyundai in the UK has confirmed that the Veloster will get the new 1.6 litre Turbo engine when it arrives in 2012. Just the other day – ahead of the SEMA show – Hyundai’s US boss confirmed that the new Veloster will be coming as more than just a pedestrian coupe, with plans to launch [...]
Hyundai has confirmed that their new 204bhp 1.6 litre twin scroll turbo 4-pot will find its way in to the Veloster – the Hyundai Veloster Turbo. When Hyundai revealed details of the Veloster Coupe – the successor to the successful Hyundai Coupe – we found lots we liked and, really, just on thing we didn’t – [...]
Hyundai has confirmed that it to establish a luxury brand to take on Lexus and Infiniti. The new brand will be Genesis and will arrive within two years. The rise and rise of Hyundai (and Kia too) has lead to speculation for some time that the next stage in their evolution is a proper luxury brand to [...]
Hyundai has revealed a pair of new engines – a 1.6 litre turbo petrol with 204bhp and a 2.0 litre diesel with 150bhp. When we reported prices and specs last week for the new Hyundai Veloster, we were suitably impressed at what was on offer, with one exception – the engine. We’d been hoping for [...]
The new Hyundai Veloster (2012) is Hyundai’s replacement for th hyundai Coupe, and we have the UK prices and model details. Starts at £17,995. The old Hyundai Coupe was the car that first made the world realise Hyundai was capable of far more than crummy little cars. And now, after quite a wait, we get [...]
The Hyundai Eon has launched in India with plans to take on the market leading small car, the Maruti Suzuki Alto. Priced from £3.5k to £4.8k. No, reasonable though it would be to assume so, the Hyundai Eon is not a new electric car, but it is Hyundai’s answer to the best-selling small car in India – the Suzuki [...]
It seemed back to front when Hyundai revealed the i40 Tourer first, but now the Hyundai i40 Saloon joins in too. On sale January 2012. As regular readers will know, we’re very impressed with the Hyundai i40 Tourer. But a load-lugger is not the meat of the market for car makers, so we’ve been waiting for [...]
The very much on the up Korean car maker Hyundai has joined the select band of international companies lighting up Piccadilly Circus, replacing Sanyo on the iconic billboard. If you want a clear sign of how mainstream Hyundai has become, the news that it’s taken over the iconic billboard display in Piccadilly Circus from Sanyo is as much evidence [...]
VW boss Martin Winterkorn, visiting the Hyundai stand at Frankfurt, spent five minutes poking round the new Hyundai i30 and declared ‘Nothing rattles’! If you’re looking for a benchmark in quality mainstream cars, you can’t do a great deal better than cars from the VW group. From VW to Audi, Skoda to SEAT, VW knows how [...]
It seems Hyundai has decided that electric cars are a dead-end, so they will not develop any more EVs but will concentrate on hybrids and hydrogen fuel cells. We were beginning to think that we were a lone voice in the wilderness crying about the futility of the headline dive in to developing electric cars. But we’re [...]
The 2012 Hyundai i30 has made its debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show, and Hyundai has revealed details of the engine lineup. We’ve had plenty of news on the 2012 Hyundai i30 in the last few weeks, but until now we’ve had no confirmation of what’s going to be on offer under the bonnet. But [...]
The 2012 Hyundai i30 was teased last month with a sketch, ahead of a debut at Frankfurt 2011. Now we get more detail and photos of the new i30. A couple of weeks ago we were teased with a sketch of the new Hyundai i30 ahead of a planned debut at Frankfurt 2011. But now Hyundai [...]
