What's Wrong With This Picture: Hyundai Splits The Difference Edition

by Edward Niedermeyer

Published: May 12th, 2011

what s wrong with this picture hyundai splits the difference edition

Is it an Elantra? A Sonata? The answer is neither… this is the sedan version of Hyundai’s “Mr Euro” i40, which launched first as a wagon. It’s the “Korea-Passat” that hopes to show up the “Kraut-Passat,” while taking the brand into the entry-premium space that the Passat CC helped define. And it looks every bit as good as you’d hope an Elantra-Sonata mashup might. Meanwhile, Euro-phile car lovers the rest of the world over now get to deal with the strange phenomenon of having to lust over Hyundai’s forbidden European fruit.

#3WTP #Design #Europe #NewCars

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Mpresley on May 13, 2011

"And it looks every bit as good as you’d hope an Elantra-Sonata mashup might..." Good looking, eh? If you like driving a car that looks like a cross between a widemouth bass and Ultraman, I guess it could be right up your alley.

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Buckshot on May 14, 2011

Nice car. It could be my next car.

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