i30

Korean automaker Hyundai is getting ready to take direct aim at the 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid with its scheduled-to-launch-in-2013 Hyundai i30 gas-electric with a plug, according to a report from German news outlet Auto Motor und Sport. Word is Hyundai's first-ever mass-produced plug-in ...

Australia remains the home of big old rear wheel drive cars like the Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon. However, that is starting to change as people seek to address climate change and rising fuel prices. One example is fleets that are migrating to smaller, more efficient vehicles. Two examples are ...

Hyundai wants journalists who attend the Geneva Motor Show to focus on the new HED-6 concept SUV (above). That's fine and all, but the company's green blue news is that for the first time, a production Hyundai will get stop-start technology. The i30 blue is the lucky recipient of ...

Hyundai doesn't offer any diesel-powered cars in the US yet (a diesel V-6 is apparently coming to the Veracruz in a couple of years) but many of their overseas models use compression ignition. Also not available to American drivers is the new Hyundai i30 hatchback. That's a shame because automotive ...

We've already been introduced to the Hyundai i10, a sporty city car that's coming to the UK, but we now have a bit more information on the car, which manages to spit out just 119 grams of CO2 per kilometer and gets over 60 mpg (Imperial). The small car - it's 3.56 meters long by 1.59 wide - gets ...

Coming to the UK in January is the tasty, London-congestion-charge free Hyundai i30. Emitting just 119g/km of CO2 from a 115PS 1.6-litre CRDi turbodiesel engine, the i30 will also fit into Britain's upcoming company car band for sub-120 g/km diesels. Taxes on these cars will drop from 18 to 13 ...

The launch of the new i30 heralds the next market blitz from Hyundai. With each generation of their models, they make such leaps in value and quality, that it's no longer surprising. So, yes, the i30 is a dandylicious C-segment car, and no, they won't sell it to us here in the States. Same story, ...

There's one real easy way to tell whether the car model you're looking at online is available in the U.S. or European market. If you see these words: "a choice of three gasoline and three diesel engines, combined with manual or automatic transmission," you can bet it's not American. That's the case ...