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Wear headphones! The audio in this video was recorded with in-ear binaural microphones. With headphones or earbuds on, you’ll feel like you’re actually sitting in the driver’s seat.
Continuing the expansion of the North American Car Of The Year winning Elantra range, Hyundai has unveiled the two-door Elantra Coupe alongside the five-door GT. The Elantra Coupe will give Hyundai its first true competitor to the small two-door offerings from Honda and Kia.
Hyundai took the wraps off of the 2013 Elantra GT today. The GT is the five-door version of the North American Car Of The Year winning Elantra sedan, and is actually based on the Euro-spec Hyundai i30.
The winners of the 2012 North American Car And Truck Of The Year Awards have been announced, with the Hyundai Elantra taking home car honors, and the Land Rover Range Rover Evoque winning out amongst the truck competition.
Hyundai can do popular styling—this we know. If we’re judging by word on the street, the response of our readership, and our own personal tastes, we can say with some level of confidence that recent Hyundai newbies like the Sonata and Elantra are widely viewed as attractive cars. Even the slightly less well received Genesis Sedan was only really faulted for being anonymous, which is hardly the kiss of death for sales among conservative buyers.
Hyundai’s European outfit is preparing to launch its new i30 small wagon. Why is that important to North Americans? Because the i30 is very likely coming over here as the next-generation Elantra Touring (considering the current Elantra Touring is the current i30 in Europe). Regardless of where the i30 ends up, at least on the basis of aesthetics, it should provide a worthy alternative to the five-door Ford Focus, Mazda3, and Volkswagen Jetta Sportwagen.
To call it Sonata Junior sounds pejorative, but not when you consider the merits of the Sonata, plus those of smaller vehicles. It packs a lot of comfort into a small package, and offers up a lot of the stability and characteristic quality. It feels roomy inside, with a relaxed ride, but still with the rotational gumption befitting its small footprint. Unfortunately, it’s not the best at rewarding the driver or providing useful feedback.
Today, we received a 2011 Hyundai Elantra Limited in Indigo Blue Pearl. The roomy little guy is powered by a 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine making 148 horsepower and 131 pound-feet of torque. It’s equipped with a six-speed automatic transmission. Its EPA rating is an impressive 29/40 miles per gallon (city/highway).
The newest generation of compact cars in America is virtually unrecognizable from the vehicles that wore that class designation in years past. Long regarded as the purview of those who could just barely make the cut as new a car buyer, the compact segment has, for decades, featured some of the slowest, cheapest, most undesirable cars available. Even for enthusiasts, who tend to understand a bit better the advantages to be had via lower curb weights and shorter wheelbases, the really attractive small car propositions often could only be found in European or Japanese Domestic Market fare.
The unveiling of the Genesis sedan and Coupe, the new Tucson, new Sonata, new Accent, and now finally the Elantra; Hyundai has been on quite a roll lately with new product, and is anxious to continue that trend. The Korean manufacturer took the wraps off the South Korean-market Avante, which is destined to become the U.S.-market Elantra, at the 2010 Busan International Auto Show.
These spy photos of the new Hyundai Elantra just popped up, revealing some changes for the 2011 model.