HYUNDAI’S UPCOMING 2012 coupe, a replacement for the front-wheel-drive Tiburon being developed to sit beneath the Genesis Coupe in the company’s line-up, will look “70-80 percent” like the popular Veloster concept, Hyundai Motor America CEO John Krafcik told Inside Line this week.

Krafcik went on to say that the coupe - the final name of which [...]

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Hyundai revealed its Elantra LPI Hybrid at the Seoul Motor Show earlier today, a car it says is the ‘world’s first’ LPG-fueled hybrid to use a lithium-polymer battery pack.

A strange claim, considering Hyundai’s compatriots over at Kia unveiled the Forte LPi hybrid last week - a car which also runs on LPG and utilises a [...]

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Despite the gloomy outlook gripping the world, and the car industry in particular, Hyundai Motor Company (South Korea’s largest automaker) posted its largest global monthly sales ever in October.

The result was achieved thanks in no small part to the popularity of Hyundai’s fuel efficient vehicle range, including models such as the i10, Accent and i30.

Comparing [...]

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Hyundai has announced that it has recently achieved 100,000 sales for its Getz compact car in Australia. To celebrate the milestone, the Korean automaker is launching a campaign to help get rid of even more Getz’s from its showrooms.

Of course, it’s all a pretty flimsy excuse to clear the decks of the by-now-outdated 2008 [...]

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Hyundai Motor Company plans to start retail sales of its first LPG-electric hybrid vehicle in July 2009, arguably the most sensible hybrid vehicle to come to market. The Elantra LPI Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) will initially be sold in the Korean domestic market and it will be the world’s first hybrid vehicle to be powered [...]

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