Posts Tagged ‘Hyundai’
Okay, I like the article and want to share main point from the NZherald article
- Americans were laughing at Hyundai’s car eight year ago. The cars were ugly and often broke down.
- Now, the Koren automaker’s quality has improved and it’s among the leaders in fuel efficiency and styling.
- Sales are up more than 60 percent since 2008.
- Hyundai’s Elantra compacts and Sonata midsize sedans are in such demand in US.
There’s a Q & A with US Hyundai CEO at the article but I don’t think it is suitable for this blog.
I’m salute with Korean. They copy, follow and create new technology. Hope Malaysian can follow their method.
SEOUL, March 21 (Reuters) – Hyundai Motor plans to launch a revamped version of its flagship Sonata sedan in 2014, its first upgrade in more than four years, its chief executive said on Wednesday, as the company grapples with increasing foreign competition in its home market.
Hyundai, the world’s fifth-largest auto group along with its affiliate Kia Motors, has only one new model planned for a global launch this year. It started taking pre-orders on Wednesday for the new Santa Fe sports utility vehicle, which will be unveiled in April.
The latest version of the Sonata was launched in September 2009 in South Korea and early 2010 in the United States.
Sonata, which competes with Toyota Motor Corp’s Camry, is Hyundai’s top-selling model in the United States and helped the South Korean automaker achieve record sales and market share there last year. It was Hyundai’s third-best selling model in South Korea last year.
Hyundai’s domestic car sales are increasingly coming under pressure following free trade deals with Europe and the United States that have boosted international automakers’ access to South Korea’s formerly sheltered market.
Source :- Reuters
Auto manufacturers are reducing the size of their engines to cope with tough polution and ever increasing gas prices. Hyundai also will be enter 1.2 liter four cylinde category. The 1.2 liter packs roughly the same bits of technology that are found in comparable high-efficiency small-displacement engines built by Hyundai’s rivals. One of them is a small turbocharger that help the diminutive 1.2 liter obtain performance figures that are on par with those bigger engine. Hyundai has not released any performance or efficiency figures, only that engine will emit less than 100 grams of CO2 per kilometer.
The car will hit showrooms before end of this year. Let’s wait and see.
Source :- Leftlanenews
Good for Hyundai. Nowadays, car will small engine has big market.
Hyundai has released their first images of the all-new 2013 Santa Fe, the mid-size crossover. The South Korean carmaker build the third generation Santa Fe as an evolution of the firm’s Fluidic Sculpture named ‘Storm Edge’. New Santa Fe product concepts are “Refinement”, “Smartness” and “Practicality”.
Source :- CarScoop