Spy Shots: Hyundai RWD Coupe gets 300hp to rival Nissan 350Z (Page 3)
08-11-07, 08:18 AM
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Is this Hyundai’s new RWD Coupe ?
Is this Hyundai’s new RWD Coupe ?
Posted on Friday 10 August 2007
Several prototypes of Hyundai’s new RWD Coupe have been spotted testing in California’s Death Valley, and we now have what’s purported to be an official rendering of the new two-door. The sketch features the same basic shape of the spied prototype but now we get a possible direction for the styling of the car’s front end.
Last month, a spokesman for Hyundai revealed there would be a coupe based on the same running gear as Hyundai’s new RWD Genesis sedan and that it would arrive roughly six months after the sedan, putting its launch date sometime in early 2009.
The new car will replace the current FWD Tiburon coupe but will feature a much more powerful V6 engine and possibly a new V8 powerplant. According to the source, Infiniti’s new G35 is the performance benchmark so let’s hope Hyundai can pull it off.
Via: Caradisiac
Posted on Friday 10 August 2007
Several prototypes of Hyundai’s new RWD Coupe have been spotted testing in California’s Death Valley, and we now have what’s purported to be an official rendering of the new two-door. The sketch features the same basic shape of the spied prototype but now we get a possible direction for the styling of the car’s front end.
Last month, a spokesman for Hyundai revealed there would be a coupe based on the same running gear as Hyundai’s new RWD Genesis sedan and that it would arrive roughly six months after the sedan, putting its launch date sometime in early 2009.
The new car will replace the current FWD Tiburon coupe but will feature a much more powerful V6 engine and possibly a new V8 powerplant. According to the source, Infiniti’s new G35 is the performance benchmark so let’s hope Hyundai can pull it off.
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08-11-07, 03:02 PM
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The grill won't look anything like that. The heavy camo purposely mis-shapes the grill as well as the headlights. Don't expect a double-kidney grill.
I'm lovin' those tails! They're much different from G35/37's.
08-13-07, 02:10 PM
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Hyundai Motor toys with 300 hp sports car
01:00 AM EDT on Sunday, August 12, 2007
By Mike Ramsey and Alan Ohnsman
Bloomberg News
Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s largest automaker, will unveil a new sports-car concept in November at the Los Angeles Auto Show as the company works to shed its image as a cut-rate brand.
The model will be a 300-horsepower, rear-wheel-drive coupe with an “affordable” price, John Krafcik, Hyundai’s U.S. product development chief, said today at an automotive conference in Traverse City, Michigan.
The model will be the “most thrilling, most emotional car has ever created,” Krafcik said. It will replace the front-wheel-drive Tiburon sports car, industry publication Automotive News reported July 30, citing a Hyundai source it didn’t identify.
Adding the sports car would be Hyundai’s latest step beyond its longtime focus on compacts and small sedans. In March, Seoul-based Hyundai introduced its Veracruz sport-utility vehicle to compete with Honda Motor Co.’s Pilot and Toyota Motor Corp.’s Highlander. It sells for as much as $38,000.
Hyundai expanded U.S. sales volume fivefold from 1998 to 2005, surging to 455,012 vehicles. Sales were little changed last year, up just 0.1 percent, and are down 0.4 percent in 2007. That reduces the likelihood Hyundai will meet a goal of selling 500,000 autos in the U.S. this year.
Hyundai spokesman Miles Johnson said the sports-car concept will be about the size of a Ford Motor Co. Mustang. Hyundai hasn’t said when the car would reach U.S. dealers.
01:00 AM EDT on Sunday, August 12, 2007
By Mike Ramsey and Alan Ohnsman
Bloomberg News
Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s largest automaker, will unveil a new sports-car concept in November at the Los Angeles Auto Show as the company works to shed its image as a cut-rate brand.
The model will be a 300-horsepower, rear-wheel-drive coupe with an “affordable” price, John Krafcik, Hyundai’s U.S. product development chief, said today at an automotive conference in Traverse City, Michigan.
The model will be the “most thrilling, most emotional car has ever created,” Krafcik said. It will replace the front-wheel-drive Tiburon sports car, industry publication Automotive News reported July 30, citing a Hyundai source it didn’t identify.
Adding the sports car would be Hyundai’s latest step beyond its longtime focus on compacts and small sedans. In March, Seoul-based Hyundai introduced its Veracruz sport-utility vehicle to compete with Honda Motor Co.’s Pilot and Toyota Motor Corp.’s Highlander. It sells for as much as $38,000.
Hyundai expanded U.S. sales volume fivefold from 1998 to 2005, surging to 455,012 vehicles. Sales were little changed last year, up just 0.1 percent, and are down 0.4 percent in 2007. That reduces the likelihood Hyundai will meet a goal of selling 500,000 autos in the U.S. this year.
Hyundai spokesman Miles Johnson said the sports-car concept will be about the size of a Ford Motor Co. Mustang. Hyundai hasn’t said when the car would reach U.S. dealers.
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08-13-07, 06:34 PM
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The new car will replace the current FWD Tiburon coupe but will feature a much more powerful V6 engine and possibly a new V8 powerplant.
The Tiburon's underhood space is clearly too small for almost any V8 currently in production, although VW's ultra-compact W8 from the Passat and Phaeton MIGHT fit.
