Its Official!
The much awaited Hyundai i40/Sonata YF will be unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show next year. Interestingly the dates of the show (January 11-24) overlap with the Delhi Auto Expo. It will be interesting to see if Hyundai displays a model here for us.
The new Hyundai i40 has been spied many times, we’ve brought scores of spyshots and renderings. We’ll have our version of the car up in the course of next week.
The Hyundai Sonata YF will make it to India next year. Its futuristic design will go down well with Indian consumers. It must be priced correctly, at the end of the day let us remember this is a Hyundai and in India, it makes small cars.
The base model will use a 4-cylinder engine direct injection technology will be utilized. The engine options of the next Sonata has been discussed in depth here before.
Hyundai is getting ready with a whole fleet of designs. They are planning to bring out new face-lifted editions or the next generation models into the market in the near future.
To begin with they have the i20 mini MPV. This is being designed by the Hyundai’s European Design Centre at Russelsheim (Germany). It is likely that the i20 MPV shares its platform with the Kia YN minivan, showcased at Geneva Auto Show.
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More details have emerged about the next gen Hyundai Sonata which will be called the i40. The new mid-sized saloon and estate will go on sale in Europe in 2010, replacing the ageing Sonata. According to a Hyundai insider, the i40 will major on style, “and won’t be a car that people buy purely for value.” This can clearly be inferred from the looks of the concept car. Billed as [ Read More ]
Entry posted on October 25, 2008 by
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Many people started switching to soft-roaders as they offered the best of both worlds-Macho looks and the driving characteristics of cars. This made them such a hit esp in India with the Honda CR-V and Chevy Captiva selling like hot cakes. Hyundai’s SUV’s on the other hand, were unlucky as the Tucson and the Teraccan failed to take off. So now, Hyundai believes that MPVs are the future, at least [ Read More ]
