List of Australian Car Clubs and Specialists, New Car Releases and Owners' Car Reviews for Aussie motoring enthusiasts
Honda has announced plans to have a completely new manufacturing plant on line in 2009 to produce 150,000 Civics and Fit models for the North American market. Reports suggest that the new plant will have the capacity to increase production to 300,000 models a year bringing Honda’s total capacity in North America to something around […]
Hyundai outsold Mitsubishi and moved up another place to claim sixth spot in the Australian car market in April with 3965 vehicles sold and a 5.8 percent share of the market, up 1.1 percent over April 2005. Year-to-date, Hyundai has overtaken Honda and also moved up a place to sixth with 16,073 sales, accounting for […]
The all-new 2007 Elantra makes its world debut today at the 2006 New York International Auto Show. Hyundai’s 2007 Elantra is the seventh all-new model from Hyundai in just 24 months, giving Hyundai the freshest lineup in the industry. All new from headlight to taillight, Elantra brings more refinement, safety and interior space to compact […]
The March US sales figures must be rather perplexing for executives at Hyundai. Sales of the Elantra dropped 9.6%, sales of the Accent dropped 44.6% and sales of the Santa Fe and Tucson dropped a combined 22.9%. But sales of the Sonata increased by 53.8% and that meant that total Hyundai sales for March were […]
At last I have actually seen one up close and personal and my wife and I sat in one at the Brisbane Motor Show while an eager young salesman practiced his sales pitch on us. And our impression was for $42,990 we will quite happily stick with our 2000 model.. My wife’s impression of the […]
Despite what we were told by a salesman at our local Hyundai dealer several weeks ago the new Grandeur is here and it is being advertised by the local dealer. So what do we have and is it really going to be worth the money. Sadly if you go to the Hyundai website you’re not […]
If you’re thinking of buying a small car and price is the only consideration then here are a few baseline prices that might interest you. Ford Fiesta $13,990 Holden Barina (a rebadged Daewoo Kalos) $12,990 Hyunda Getz $13,990 Kia Rio $14990 Toyota Yaris $14,990 So obviously the Holden Barina is definitely going to interest you […]
The motoring industry in the United States is going through it’s annual round of car awards and one of the first is the Road and Travel Magazine International Card of the Year Awards. Typically the Americans give a world title to something that only applies in the US but still it’s interesting to see what […]
Back in November Aussie Motoring posted some comments about the Hyundai Sonata. It seemed to attract mixed reviews from motoring journalists here in Australia that were somewhat at variance with what Sonata owners that we have spoken to have to say about the car. Those reviews are also at variance with what motoring journalists in […]
Motoring journalists do not have an easy job. You might think that there would better job than driving around in new cars all the time. But it must be so difficult to remain objective about each individual car when you do that all the time. I mean how can you remain objective about a Kia […]
Hyundai’s Getz has reclaimed the title of Australia’s Best Small Car – its second win in three years – in the annual Australia’s Best Cars awards, the car industry’s most rigorous and comprehensive rating regime run by all the state Royal Automobile Clubs and the NRMA. In the Large (formerly Family) Car class, mostly the […]
In a major announcement the chairman of Hyundai Automotive Group revealed that by 2015 is aims to be selling 100,000 Hyundai and 50,000 Kia cars in Australia. The chairman, Chung Mong-koo suggested that by the end of 2007 the company would be selling 70,000 units in Australia and by 2010 it would have doubled it’s […]
The new Hyundai Sonata has been out on the streets for a short time now and, despite what some reviewers think, the new Sonata is proving popular with owners. The Sonata comes in either a 2.4 litre 4 cylinder version or a 2.7 litre V6 and each version comes in various levels of creature comfort […]