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GENERAL STUFF => i30 NEWS & OFFICIAL REVIEWS => Topic started by: Aussie Keith on October 18, 2015, 18:03:34

Title: The i30 in Italy
Post by: Aussie Keith on October 18, 2015, 18:03:34

They have been completely invisible on the road but it does seem they are trying to sell them here.

http://www.hyundai.it/modelli/nuovai30/nuovai30.aspx (http://www.hyundai.it/modelli/nuovai30/nuovai30.aspx)

Take a peek at the rubber on the car in the website - Michelins, not Hankooks. I think there is something in that for all of us.

Title: Re: The i30 in Italy
Post by: Dazzler on October 18, 2015, 21:23:07

Thanks Keith! Quite a nice little website. Interesting about the tyres! Always been a fan of Michelin Tyres.  :goodjob:

Title: Re: The i30 in Italy
Post by: AlanHo on October 18, 2015, 22:00:52

You would think they would shod them with Pirelli tyres in Italy - It's an excellent looking web site. Hyundai UK could learn from that

Title: Re: The i30 in Italy
Post by: The Gonz on October 19, 2015, 01:37:20

Our time in the UK was like that: Calais and its many Carrefour-type outlets on its doorstep and every time we went down to Sainsbury's we'd say "The UK could learn from that!" :crazy1:

Title: Re: The i30 in Italy
Post by: rustynutz on October 19, 2015, 04:55:12

Quote from: Aussie Keith on October 18, 2015, 18:03:34

Take a peek at the rubber on the car in the website - Michelins, not Hankooks. I think there is something in that for all of us.

Maybe only on some as I spy what look like Nexen's in some of those pics...  :undecided:

Title: Re: The i30 in Italy
Post by: omegaspeedy on October 19, 2015, 10:32:05

I like my Nexens. I've found them to be much much better than the Hankooks on my previous i30.

Title: Re: The i30 in Italy
Post by: Mike SX on October 19, 2015, 11:07:44

Quote from: The Gonz on October 19, 2015, 01:37:20

..... Carrefour-type outlets on its doorstep and every time we went down to Sainsbury's we'd say "The UK could learn from that!" :crazy1:

:whsaid:
& these - Alcampo, Mercadona, E.Leclerc.....

Title: Re: The i30 in Italy
Post by: baroudeur on October 22, 2015, 14:35:17

Quote from: Mike SX on October 19, 2015, 11:07:44

Quote from: The Gonz on October 19, 2015, 01:37:20

..... Carrefour-type outlets on its doorstep and every time we went down to Sainsbury's we'd say "The UK could learn from that!" :crazy1:

:whsaid:
& these - Alcampo, Mercadona, E.Leclerc.....

Aren't the first two Spanish? And there is no  Leclerc in Calais.

Calais area  has two Carrefour, Auchan, three Lidl, Aldi, Leader Price, Intermarché,

Title: Re: The i30 in Italy
Post by: Mike SX on October 23, 2015, 18:46:57

I was making a general observation, not a geographical one😉

Title: Re: The i30 in Italy
Post by: The Gonz on October 24, 2015, 00:00:46

 :lol:
And we often went to Eroski in many places in Spain - an impressive Basque business success. :goodjob:

Title: Re: The i30 in Italy
Post by: baroudeur on October 24, 2015, 16:54:58

Quote from: Mike SX on October 23, 2015, 18:46:57

I was making a general observation, not a geographical one😉

Sorry, I thought Calais was a specific geographical reference .................. :-[