A WELL-PLACED source within Hyundai has told British outlet Autocar that the carmaker will be tooling up its production facilities to build the upcoming Tiburon replacement in right-hand-drive, with Australia a likely market to receive the sharply styled coupe.

The new coupe is expected to be based heavily on the Veloster concept that first appeared at [...]

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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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With its perfect blend of power, looks and keen pricing, Hyundai’s game-changing Genesis Coupe has quite understandably been hogging the limelight lately.

But according to Hyundai’s top brass, that doesn’t mean they’ve forgotten about their last sporting model, the Tiburon. They have now announced that a front-wheel-drive sports coupe is still most definitely in the pipeline.

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Hyundai Australia, with the help of some talented drivers and the Kangan Batman TAFE motor sport division, has taken out the 2008 Australian Manufacturers’ Championship.

The Kangan Batman TAFE Hankook Hyundai Sonata driven by Jamie Augustine and Brett Youlden, and the Victor Chang Cardiac Institute Hyundai Tiburon driven by young up-and-comer George Miedecke, have proven to [...]

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If you were under the impression that the upcoming Genesis Coupe is the official successor to the Hyundai Tiburon, boy were you wrong.

Hyundai has announced that its replacement for the ageing Tiburon will be revealed at the 2009 Frankfurt Motorshow, and will have similar styling to the Veloster 2+2 concept Hyundai unveiled in Seoul in 2007, [...]

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I never miss an opportunity to remind folks that I’ve been backing Hyundai since the 90s to be the world’s next big value performer, but truthfully, it’s a little easier these days to convince people than it ever was back then.  But hey, I guess that’s the point. With global sales [...]

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Hyundai’s Tiburon is too easily underestimated, and overlooked. It’s a much better mid-sized coupe than many realise.

The fact is, it’s not a bad sporting drive, and, from behind the wheel, feels robust, durable, and reasonably well-sorted. It can’t be accused of being overly sharp at the wheel, nor over-endowed with kilowatts, but it’s not sloppy [...]

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For lovers of turbo-charged, reasonably priced performance, breaking news overnight will put a smile on their faces. Hyundai have confirmed in an interview with Automotive News that their upcoming rear-wheel-drive Genesis Coupe will be sporting a turbo-charged four-cylinder option.

The new engine is a joint development between Hyundai, Chrysler and Mitsubishi. Displacing 2.0-litres it will feature [...]

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Thanks to a Tiburon Forum member, we get to see the new RWD Hyundai Coupe undisguised and sitting proudly next to its anticipated North American competitor the Ford Mustang. The pic was apparently taken at a market research event earlier this year. Hyundai appears to have done a reasonable job on the styling which will [...]

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In the lead-up to the 2007 Los Angeles International Motor Show, Hyundai have released a couple of teaser images of their upcoming Genesis Coupe based on their BH rear-wheel drive platform. Not due to be seen on the street until sometime after the release of the Genesis sedan we can logically expect the Coupe to [...]

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There has been much recent speculation concerning the upcoming Hyundai RWD Coupe/Tiburon. We don’t know what it will be called but we do know that it is RWD (Hyundai have confirmed this) and that it will borrow the Genesis sedans RWD platform.

The image you see above is believed to be an “official” rendering of the [...]

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We have already featured the disguised Hyundai Coupe that has recently been spotted in a number of locations around the world Strongly rumoured to be based on the Hyundai Genesis rear wheel drive platform it has not been confirmed that the drive was going to the rear wheels…until now.

Hyundai has just confirmed that the new [...]

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