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Thursday, November 20th, 2008 
Hyundai to develope a special edition Genesis sedan with famous Prada
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008Prada, one of the worlds leading brands in the luxury goods industry, has signed an agreement with Hyundai to create a special edition Genesis Sedan. Over a four month period of time, three “Prada” Genesis luxury sedans will be built and they will combine the best industrial design with quality materials, craftsmanship and an innovative new approach aimed at creating a new driving experience.
One of the cars will make its appearance at the Busan Motor Show in April next year and later displayed at Hyundais South-Korean headquarters in Seoul. Other two special edition Genesis sedans will be auctioned at the Prada Transformer, a unique, temporary building that will accommodate a range of different art, cinema, culture and fashion events from March to July 2009. The proceeds will be donated to a charity under the joint Hyundai Motor Company - Prada Transformer name.
[Via: hyundaiblog]
Hyundai India reaches two million mark!!
Friday, November 14th, 2008Hyundai Motor India has reached a landmark figure of two million cars, which the company has sold in India over the last 10 years. ‘Since its inception, Hyundai Motor India has always brought the best and the latest in automotive technology and design, backed by the best of warranty, competitive pricing and a huge sales and service support network.
This new record of producing two million cars will further empower Hyundai to play a vital role in the growth of the Indian automobile industry,’ said HS Lheem, MD, HMIL.
[Via: indiaautomotive]
Hyundai To Launch i10 Diesel Next Year
Saturday, November 8th, 2008Hyundai will be launching the i10 diesel next year after they launch the i20. The 1120cc 3 cylinder engine is expected to have 75PS of power @ 4000RPM (not 6000RPM) and 155NM of torque from 2000RPM.
This will be the smallest CRDi engine and should have excellent fuel economy. It is expected tha i10 diesel will be priced Rs. 75000 more then the petrol i10.
Hyundai i20 Launch Delayed….
Saturday, November 8th, 2008It seems that Hyundai is going to delay the launch of i20 in India. I recently visited Hyundai’s showroom to get details about i20’s launch. They said they have no official news about its launch but according to them it is expected to be launched around 15-20th december.
They were sure that it is not going to be launched this month. May be Hyundai doesn’t want to clash it with A-Star which is expected to be launched within a few days. Lets wait n watch….
Hyundai Motor India ships out i20 to Europe
Thursday, November 6th, 2008Hyundai Motor India has rolled out from its Irrungattukottai plant the first batch of all new i20 cars, premiered at the Paris Motor Show last month. The maiden consignment, comprising 2,820 cars, has just been flagged off from the Chennai port for Europe.
i20 is considered a highly significant addition to the new generation of Hyundai vehicles identified by the `i` prefix. It is designed at Hyundai`s European design centre at Russelsheim in Germany. It is designed and engineered to meet the European tastes and needs. The i20 cars exclusively manufactured at the India facility of HMIL.
HMIL makes i20 in three variants - 1.2 litre, 1.4 litre and 1.6 litre - in both petrol and diesel versions. The first export consignment comprises a good mixture of these.
Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, H.S. Leem, Managing Director, said HMIL could launch i20 in the domestic market sometime in January next. Fielding a range of questions, he said HMIL initially was targeting to export 6,000 units of i20s by November.
The global financial melt-down in its wake had seen some distributors cancel their orders and still others postpone their buys. This had forced HMIL to make lower initial shipment, he pointed out. Export shipments would pick-up in the coming days in the wake of Christmas-eve orders, he pointed out. Mr. Leem said HMIL had fixed an export target of 120,000 nos for i20s next year.
HMIL was hoping to sell 15,000 i20s in the domestic market next year. He admitted that the global melt-down would hit 25 per cent of export sales of HMIL. Nevertheless, he asserted that Hyundai’s thrust on small cars should keep his organization in good stead in a crisis situation like the one the world was through now, where the accent was more on cost and fuel efficiency.
[Via: Newspaper]
Hyundai to launch small car by 2011
Thursday, November 6th, 2008Hyundai Motor India Ltd today said it is working on a new ‘mini car’ in the entry-level segment, which should hit the roads by 2011.
“We are developing a small car in the entry level range and it should hit the market by 2011,” HMIL Managing Director H S Lheem told reporters here. He, however, refused to divulge the details including the cost of the proposed car. A query, whether the HMIL’s small car was being planned to compete with the Tata ’s Nano , failed to elicit any response from the company officials, though sources said the target group for this product would be the same as Nano’s - two-wheeler users aspiring for a car.
Lheem further said the car would be manufactured from the company’s existing plant at Sriperumbudur, about 40 km from here. “We have adequate capacity to manufacture (the new car) in the plant. It’s capacity is about 6.5 lakh cars per annum and we are sure that it will accommodate,” Lheem, who was here to flag off the company’s ‘i20‘ range of cars, produced at the Sriperumbudur plant, to the European market, said.
[Via: sakaalytimes]
