[Galeb]

Hi everybody! I've been lurking for a while and thing you have many great people here, so why not introducing myself with a few sentences.

I come from a small and beautiful Mediterranean county, Croatia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia), in the hart of Europe. I'm almost 30 years old, and in my family we drive Hyundai cars for 20 years now (my father bought Hyundai Pony in 1990, and he was driving it for 20 years, sold it just a few months ago to buy new i30). Do I need to say that Pony had not one problem in 20 years of driving? But, it was old and becoming rusty (he lives by the seaside) so he picked i30, 1.4 gasoline engine, with basic equipment. Back to me... I bought Hyundai Accent in 2001., and was driving it until two months ago. I sold it to my sister and I'm sure she will be happy with it in the coming years.

I, on the other hand, ordered new i30 CRDi three months ago, model year 2011 which I took over from the dealership last Thursday. I waited a bit longer because I wanted max (possible to get in Croatia) equipment with addition of cruise control and ESP, and I wanted to choose the color.
I'm enjoying my new Hyundai and I'm really satisfied with it. It really fulfilled every expectation I had from it and far more.

I took some snapshots and I will post them on another thread. See you all there!

[Dazzler]

Nice work Galeb...

Glad to hear you like the site and that both you and your dad are happy with your i30's (you got the best one) 

[Myowni30]

Hi Galeb,

Welcome to the i30 Owners Club 

[2i30s]

welcome Galeb.  my wife is Croatian,i hope to go there one day for a holiday. 

[eye30]

Welcome Galed

Many K's of carefree motoring from the brand your family have come to love.

[andrejs]

its Galeb -> Seagull     Galeb is a name for a bird here in Croatia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gull

And Welcome Galeb You are finally here

[Galeb]

Thank you everybody!
@2i30s: I have a friend in Melbourne and I would like to visit Australia one day, I really like your country!

[bumpkin]

Welcome Galeb, nice introduction

[duke]

Welcome galeb, Just had our good friends over for dinner and had a great time talking about there 2 week motorcycle trip around your little part of world , they luv 'd  it !

[Lorian]

welcome Galeb.  my wife is Croatian,i hope to go there one day for a holiday. 

I love Croatia. Went there on holiday a few years ago, spent most of my time cycling, for which it was very good.

[babis_xo]

Welcome Galeb aka seagull

Croatia is a lovely country AND with great basketball players...

[accim]

Welcome Galeb.
Just saw the car/pictures in the other thread..looks great 

Nice to see a happy Hyundai owner.. I'm also definitely one of them too. Funny, but we've had quite few of them in past 10 years and we are still not fed up with them...what an annoying brand, isn't it? 


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2i30s: You never said that before. So we are kind of neighbors. Does she ever come to Croatia?

[SRT Metro]

Hi Galeb,
Welcome to the club! 

[Ugly Mongrel]

G'day Galeb. Nice to see you in such great company. Obviously you are from a long line of Hyundai tragics so will fit in well here.   

[2i30s]

Welcome Galeb.
Just saw the car/pictures in the other thread..looks great 

Nice to see a happy Hyundai owner.. I'm also definitely one of them too. Funny, but we've had quite few of them in past 10 years and we are still not fed up with them...what an annoying brand, isn't it? 


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2i30s: You never said that before. So we are kind of neighbors. Does she ever come to Croatia?

not for 20 years mate,last visit was just before the bad fighting. 

[Daken76]

European greetings.

Welcome here. Nice to read and see something about u.

bye