All Posts Tagged With: "Hyundai"
LA 2008: Hyundai approves HED-5 i-Mode for production
We first saw Hyundai’s rolling CUV shapeship, the HED-5 i-Mode, back in Geneva, but today at the LA Auto Show is the first time the Korean automaker has shown the car in the States. New to the crossover is a 2.0L gasoline direct injection (GDI) engine that Hyundai plans to roll out in production machines [...]
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LA 2008: Hyundai announces production approval for HED-5 i-Mode
The Hyundai HED-5 concept made its debut at the 2008 Geneva Motor and Americans will get their first look at the new crossover in Los Angeles. For its North American debut, the company has announced that the concept will move to production status in 2010 and it will get the first application of the new [...]
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Hyundai goes even more upscale with Prada Genesis
Nobody blinked when Subaru and L.L. Bean hooked up. Or when Mercury and Nautica got busy. And remember those Levis Edition Jeeps? That actually worked.
But South Korea’s Hyundai and Italian fashion house Prada? Ummm. Just a few years ago it would have been laughable, and possibly an enormously bad business decision for Prada. But Hyundai’s [...]
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Hyundai Sonata gets redesign for China, we want too
The changes to the Chinese-market Hyundai Sonata are not enough to raise the roomy sedan’s profile above handsome anonycar, but it’s encouraging to see Hyundai figuring out freshening cycles without bringing the weird. This Sonata has been facelifted by BHMC, Hyundai’s Chinese joint venture, and the car in the pictures is either a pre-production model, [...]
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Hyundai officially denies interest in Chrysler LLC
Despite Reuters reports of Hyundai’s interest in Chrysler and specifically the Jeep brand, Hyundai has gone on record denying it. We’ve grown accustomed to automakers giving the arbitrary “no comment” response when the rumormill swirls with corporate takeover talk, but Hyundai has flat-out denied any interest at all. Almost in the same sentence, though, officials [...]
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Hyundai: Newest Chrysler suitor?
On the same day that General Motors announced it would be discontinuing talks with Cerberus over a possible purchase of Chrysler, news hits by way of Reuters that a replacement suitor has sprung up. Wow, that didn’t take long. The latest partner is none other than Hyundai, Korea’s largest automaker. Not surprisingly, it’s the Jeep [...]
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Hyundai Genesis sedan to get 8-speed automatic
Hyundai is making a serious run at such stalwart luxury marques as Lexus, Mercedes-Benz and BMW with the Genesis sedan. The Korean automaker is already competing directly with those established players using its current range of engines and transmissions, with the 4.6-liter V8 being mated to the same 6-speed ZF automatic tranny that sees duty [...]
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SEMA 2008: Hyundai debuts tuned Genesis Sedans, 460-hp supercharged V8
While the trio of tuned Genesis coupes have garnered their fair share of attention, these three Genesis sedans had a few tricks up their sleeves, beginning with the RKSport model above that benefits from a Hyundai-developed screw-type supercharger mated to the 4.6-liter Tau V8.
With 11 pounds of boost huffed into the bent eight, the RKSport [...]
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SEMA 2008: Hyundai Genesis Coupe tuned by HKS and Street Concepts
In addition to the race-ready RMR Genesis Coupe, HKS and Street Concepts brought out their own rear-wheel-drive two-doors to the party.
The Street Concepts coupe builds off the 3.8-liter V6 model, coating the exterior in a “Stealth Fighter-inspired” paint scheme and matching it to a custom grille, tinted head and tail lights and an APR wing. [...]
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Hyundai develops high-performance diesel R-Engine
Not too long ago, Hyundai didn’t compete directly with anything coming out of Germany (or perhaps that’s the other way around). Now Hyundai is determined not to let up on its recently-made foes. Today it unveiled the R-Engine, a new diesel in two capacities that the company says “can comfortably beat the power outputs of [...]
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