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Volkswagen, Audi and Hyundai Make It To IIHS Top Safety Picks
The latest vehicles to earn membership into the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s (IIHS) 2010 Top Safety Pick Award club are Volkswagen, Audi and Hyundai. Earning the highest rating possible from the non-profit research organization are the 2010 Audi A4 and Q5, Hyundai Tucson, Lincoln MKT, and Volkswagen Jetta SportWagen. Also making the list are…
Report: Hyundai Veloster To Debut In Paris With Three Doors
The Hyundai Veloster, the Korean company’s replacement for their successful Tiburon coupe, will make its debut at the Paris Auto Show in September, according to Autocar magazine. Reports say that the Veloster will be a three-door coupe, ala the Saturn SC1 of the 1990’s, with two doors on one side, to ease entry into the…
Rhys Millen Shows Off Hyundai PM580 Race Car (Video Inside)
It’s hard to call the Hyundai PM580 a Hyundai while keeping a straight face, but Rhys Millen, builder of this awesome, Le Mans-esque racer, does have some kind of deal with Hyundai to prep Genesis Coupe and Sedans for SEMA, so its natural that mechanical motivation for the PM580 would come from Hyundai‘s own Lambda…
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Hyundai’s Biggest Market Is China, Not Korea
China is the world’s biggest auto market in the world, so it might not be so surprising that China is also Hyundai‘s new biggest market, after the automaker sold more cars in China than Korea for the second straight month. Buoyed by the success of the Yuedong (aka our Elantra) and the Tuscon crossover, Hyundai…
Hyundai Sonata Wagon Spied, Will It Come To Our Shores?
Just like the title says, it appears that Hyundai is prepping a wagon variant of its slick new Sonata sedan. Wagons have traditionally been met with a cool reception here in North America, but they are a must have vehicle for any manufacturer outside Canada or the U.S., where they are the family car of…
Kia Soul Hamsters Return With Hip-Hop Themed Spot
Regular readers will recall a fondness for hip-hop music at the Autoguide offices. We’ve previously covered the Houston “swangas” phenomenon, Seattle’s Volvo driving rapper and Atlanta’s dubbed-out Camaros. Now, Kia is showing the East Coast some love, with their new commercial featuring their familiar Hamsters, the Kia Soul, and Black Sheep’s seminal anthem The Choice…
Half Of All New Car Buyers Choose Four Cylinder Engines
A new report by J.D. Power and Associates claims that 49% of American car buyers opted for four-cylinder powertrains in cars and light-trucks purchased during the month of April. Concerns over fuel economy and gas prices helped spark a trend in consumers picking the smaller engines in the first quarter of 2010, with 46.5% choosing…
Hyundai Genesis and Mercedes E-Class are IIHS 2010 Top Safety Picks
There’s no doubt that a nod from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) will affect a purchasing decision on your next family vehicle. So if you’re living large and luxurious, you’ll be pleased to hear that two large luxury cars earned the IIHS’s 2010 Top Safety Pick awards. The Hyundai Genesis and the Mercedes…
Hyundai Flat Out Rejects Pickup Truck Rumors
Hyundai has spoken out after reports that it may look to introduce a pickup truck to the U.S. market, completely rejecting the idea. Rumors started earlier in the week when it was reported that the Korean automaker was showing a rebadged version of a Dodge Ram 1500 to focus groups to gauge reaction. The obvious…
Hyundai and Chrysler Could Partner Up On Pickup Truck
Hyundai and Chrysler could partner together for a full-sized truck based off of the Ram, after Chrysler’s deal with Nissan fell apart. Sources say that Hyundai approached Chrysler as late as February regarding a potential tie-up. Hyundai’s lineup is experiencing a renaissance in North America, but the Korean automaker lacks a full-size pickup truck for…
Rumor Mill: Hyundai Planning Entry into Pickup Truck Market
Hyundai appears to be examining an entry into the full-sized pickup truck market – something which seems to defy the Korean automaker’s recent fuel economy push. According to a report by PickupTrucks.com, Hyundai has been showing a Dodge Ram 1500 to focus groups – rebaged and restyled as a Hyundai. Some have suggested that using…
Gaza Resident Pays $38,000 To Have Hyundai Elantra Smuggled In
For all the scare-mongering you see on the evening news, the most interesting thing about my trip to the West Bank was seeing some Palestinian hoonage undertaken by a couple youths in a beat-up Toyota. It was nothing more than some peel-outs and a poor attempt at doing donuts, but it was cool to see…
Chrysler, Toyota, Hyundai, Ford Make Big Gains As Auto Market Recovers
April sales numbers are beginning to trickle in, and two companies largely written off by the media turned out to be the biggest gainers. Chrysler and Toyota, two companies who were earlier maligned for their dated product and recall scandals saw sales increases of 25 and 24 percent respectively, while current industry darlings Ford and…
2011 Hyundai Elantra Debuts at Busan Auto Show in South Korea
Having just introduced the new Accent/Verna at the Beijing Auto Show last week, Hyundai has now unveiled the 2011 Elantra at the Busan Auto Show in South Korea. Called the Avante in its home-market of Korea, it certainly takes after the styling of the new 2011 Sonata, which works well to give a sporty and…
Top Gear USA Caught Filming On Mulholland Highway
Yesterday, a batch of journalists (excluding this one, I’m obviously not cool enough) attending the North American launch of the new Jaguar XJ sedan came upon an interesting roadblock in their pre-determined and very obvious drive route: Top Gear USA had shut down the famous Mulholland Highway and brought out some sports cars to play…
ESC Absent in 2010 Hyundai Accent, Chevrolet Aveo, says Consumer Reports
Consumer watchdog, Consumer Reports has released its list of 2010 cars, which includes the Hyundai Accent and the Chevrolet Aveo, that do not come with the electronic stability control (ESC) safety feature. A computerized technology that improves the safety of a vehicle’s stability by detecting and minimizing skids in a turn, electronic stability control will…
Hyundai Debuts Direct Injection I4, V6 And 8-Speed Automatic
Hyundai‘s new Accent was the star of the companies exhibit at this year’s Beijing Auto Show, but the debut of two new engines and a new automatic transmission will have broader implications for the rest of the company’s lineup. In addition to the 2.4L GDI four-cylinder in the Sonata (pictured above), two new gasoline direct-injection…
Hyundai Genesis Police Cruiser Debuts in Korea
Hyundai’s Genesis sedan is a vehicle of many talents; effortless highway cruiser, stoplight drag race sleeper and plush transporter of discrete well-to-do types. Now you can add “Police Interceptor” to the list. With its snazzy blue and gold livery and copious lighting equipment, the Genesis doesn’t have the same intimidation factor as, say, a black…
Hyundai Genesis Sedan: Now Available At Costco
Costco is one of the great wonders of our society, enabling the average consumer to buy massive quantities of everything from hand lotion to olive oil to alcohol. At some point, company execs decided to expand the Costco business model – to include cars. An astute poster on VWVortex discovered that one of the cars…
2011 Hyundai Accent Breaks Cover In Beijing With Attractive New Packaging
The current Hyundai Accent’s claim to fame is that it’s one of the only new cars that can be bought for under $10,000. But with Hyundai’s push upscale, the new 2011 Accent, revealed at the Beijing Auto Show Friday (as the Verna), will be a more upscale effort, designed to go head to head with…
Worst Parking Job Ever Nets $500 Fine and Driving Ban
One of the most famous YouTube videos in the last year has got to be the “Worst parking job ever,” a clip ran by news channel CP24 after a BMW X5 drove over two parked cars at a Newmarket, Ontario gym. We weren’t sure an X5 could drive over anything, until 62-year-old Tripta Kaushal showed…
Hyundai Bringing Start-Stop Technology to North America
Hyundai and its subsidiary Kia will both look to bring start-stop technology to its model lineup in North America in 2012. Start-stop technology is already popular in Europe, allowing the engine to shut off at stop lights or wen in traffic. It’s also part of most modern hybrid setups, allowing the green-machines to get the…
Next-Gen Hyundai Accent Fully Revealed in Latest Spy Photos
Thanks to a post on GenCoupe.com we now have several shots of the next-generation Hyundai Accent. We’ve seen a photo of a similar looking vehicle before and believed it to be the next-gen Elantra, but now there’s proof that it is in fact the sub-compact Accent. The proof comes from a shot of the rear…
Rhys Millen Racing Hyundai Genesis PM580 Pikes Peak Race Car Unveiled
Rhys Millen Racing and Hyundai Tackle Pikes Peak 2010 with the Genesis PM580 They say the best things in life are free…but they haven’t seen the incredible RMR Hyundai Genesis PM580. Designed to run the Unlimited Class at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, the PM580 is basically a Le Mans-style prototype racer — with…
