Would have posted this in the i30 LINKS section, but as it's not i30-specific I'll post it here
Just read an article in The Sun (UK tabloid) online, which says lots about Hyundai's forward thinking.
Some overall useful info too about their plans.
Hopefully, this link will be accessible to all...
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/mo ... 561214.ece
The i10 has joined the equally successful i30 hatchback and estate models in Hyundai’s revamped family car range, which will be completed early next year with the arrival of the Fiesta-sized i20.
When they launched here in 1990 they sold just 7,000 cars in their first year.
By last year that figure had more than quadrupled, to 30,000, and their plans are to hit 60-70,000 sales by 2012, in a shrinking market.
Ironically, Hyundai’s biggest problem is coping with the demand for their new models.
The i10 city car now has a waiting list of three months, a timescale more in line with an executive car than a city runabout.
They have sold 3,500 i10s since the car was launched here in February — but dealers could have sold a lot more to motorists, worried about the credit crunch and rising fuel prices, who are looking for an inexpensive, economical small car.
The company will be adding more glamour to their line-up in 2009 with a stunning 2+2 coupe.
It will be based on the Veloster concept and replace the current coupe model that made the initial breakthrough in Europe for the firm and was dubbed “the poor man’s Ferrari”.
The new Veloster should start at just over £14,000 for the 1.6litre, retaining Hyundai’s reputation as the affordable face of coupe motoring.
