Hello Elantra!

by Edward Niedermeyer

April 29th, 2010 12:15 PM

Hyundai continues its “fluidic sculpture” makeover with the debut of the new Elantra (Avante in other markets) at the Busan auto show in Korea. Expect a North American debut sometime next year.

#Elantra #FutureVehicles #Hyundai #Korea

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Areitu on Apr 29, 2010

Though the front and rear look very vaguely derviative of Hondas and Toyotas, it's great to see the effort Hyundai is putting forth with the styling on their cars to set themselves apart. Especially after seeing some of the uhh...efforts...from the BAS.

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Gsnfan on Apr 29, 2010

I was in an Elantra a few weeks ago and was impressed by how quiet, roomy, and comfortable it was. If they keep those qualities and make the new style, then they have a winner on their hands.

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- DweezilSFV on Apr 30, 2010
  
  I found the opposite to be true when I put well over 500 miles on one this past Sunday. Rear view mirror vibrated so badly it blurred the image in it, engine was coarse, loud and obnoxious and the transmission [auto] seemed hooked up to something other than the engine, even dropping into neutral while I was traveling through an intersection. The visibilty was bad and the seats as hard as the ones in my ION. Used an idiot light instead of a proper temp.gauge. In 2010. Plastics looked like they'd popped out of a Mattel Vacu-Form of the 60s: hard, thin and sharp edged and getting scratched at under 18,000 miles. Ride over rough surfaces would jar your teeth loose. It all fragile and incapable of making it to 60,000 miles with out major problems. I'll pass. Was looking forward to driving it as it had all the accessories I have avoided for all these years: power everything, moon roof, etc and it still felt cheap, slow and loose. All the "toys" didn't compensate for that agricultural sounding engine. Ranks right down there with the Iron Duke and the Saturn 1.9. In 2010. Sorry: I am skeptical of this growing meme of Hyundai's product improvement.
  
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