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Hope it is not the next i30! Not as pleasing to my eyes as the current i30 and certainly not as nicely balanced as the new i40 Wagon...
They are just about to release the new Elantra (quite nice) and have silhouettes of the Accent, Veloster and i40... a real assault on the Aussie market http://www.hyundai.com.au/
Gee the accent looks so much like the new Elantra .. Hopefully the i40 will offer the new 1.7 Ltr Diesel motor
Hi Dave.. Yep the link worked but I didn't see the bit about the diesel coming Funnily enough I dropped in to see my m8 at the Hyundai dealer today and we had a look at the accent sedan and hatch .. I was amazed how much the Accent hatch just looked like an updated i30 and I got in the top of the range Accent sedan thinking it was another model of the Elantra which was parked in another part of the showroom.. They are so similar but the bonnet is a bit nicer line in the Elantra and it gets 1.8ltr and 6 speed Auto against the Accent's 1.6 with 4 speed auto (manual is 6 speed in Elanta only 5 speed in accent I think)I think the sales of the i30 may drop a bit now as accent and elantra pinch some of the sales
Ashley looks after her cars pretty well She drives about a 5 year old Honda Accord Euro now ...Soory for the off topic..
The Accent will be the poor man's i30 IMHO..
Thanks for that link Dave.. very interesting I would pay an extra few K for the i30 with a U2 diesel and 6speed (like Lakes and others have now) rather than "coming down" to the accent (I think) Although you would need a back to back drive to be sure...My m8 at Hyundai laughed when he said about the price of the i20 coming down... he reckons makes little difference as they are as scarce as hen's teeth...Hyundai will be hard to beat once the Veloster and i40 Wagon come on line (especially if they throw a 1.7 or 2.0 diesel in the i40 )