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Great news for automakers: nine out of 10 cars tested this year earned the 5 starts in Euro NCAP’s crash tests. The five-star winners are: the Audi A6, the BMW X3, the Chevrolet Aveo, the Chevrolet Orlando, the Citroen DS5, the Hyundai i40, the Opel Ampera, the VW Golf Cabriolet and the VW Jetta.

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Hyundai unveiled its facelift for South Korean market version of its Sonata sedan. The light cosmetic facelift on the outside brings a revamped front grille with a little bit less chrome on top and around the sides, plus new LED taillights at the back, reshaped mirror casings and a fresh choice of alloy wheel designs [...]

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The pricing for the 2012 Hyundai Genesis has officially been set at $34,200, not including $850 for delivery. The facelifted Genesis four-door sedan was unveiled at the 2011 Chicago Auto Show. The base Genesis 3.8 sedan, which now uses a direct-injected 3.8-liter V6, rated at 333 horsepower and 291 pound-feet of torque – gains of [...]

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The estate version of Hyundai’s European i40 has made its world premiere at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show. Designed and engineered at Hyundai’s headquarters in Germany, the i40 Estate will fill the gap left by the outgoing Sonata in the South Korean automaker’s range and will compete against the Ford Mondeo and Volkswagen Passat. A [...]

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Hyundai has unveiled an official illustrations of its new D-segment car for Europe. The i40 is essentially the European market version of the North American and Korean Sonata. The new Hyundai i40 will make its world premiere as estate at the upcoming Geneva Auto Show in March 2011, with a four door sedan model following [...]

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Hyundai has issued a recall of 139,500 Sonatas over steering issues. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) report identifies the issue says “the steering column intermediate shaft universal joint connections may have been either improperly assembled or insufficiently tightened.” The consequence could be “a complete separation or compromised attachment of the connections, such that [...]

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Here is a spy video from Asia. Some men in suits trying to park the all-new 2011 Hyundai Elantra. As we know, leaner and longer than the current model, the next Hyundai Elantra made its world premiere at the Busan motorshow in South Korea in April 2010 and will go on sale as the Avante [...]

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The camouflaged 2012 Hyundai Accent hatchback was caught in a parking lot somewhere in South Korea. As we see, this is almost certainly the five-door hatchback version of the new Verna/Accent that debuted at the Beijing Motor Show in April. The wheels are the same as the ones we saw on the Verna and the [...]

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The advertising types at Hyundai have picked up on the cheeky part of Top Gear in an overseas commercial for the ix35 crossover (also known as Tucson in the States). The ads, which apparently air in South Africa, very overtly spoof the BBC program, but with three animals making up the “Top Deer” team. Clarkson, [...]

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Hyundai unveiled today the next generation of its Elantra model, known as the Hyundai Avantre in Korea, at the 2010 Busan International Motor Show. The new Elantra continues Hyundai’s ‘fluidic sculpture’ design style in a package that most automakers would describe today as a “four-door coupe“. No word about any technical details yet, but the [...]

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