8/17/2023 0 Comments New 2017 hyundai modelsI won’t go into detail about its driving dynamics as that would give away the real meat of our upcoming road test review, but let’s just say the brand’s new engineering team is doing as much for chassis development as its design team has improved styling. (Photo: Karen Tuggay, Canadian Auto Press) Leather seats, a superb infotainment system, and yes, that’s right, you’re looking at a 6-speed manual in an upscale Elantra. We drove that car way back in September of 2015 as its ushered in a new grille design for the 2016 model year, and then in March of 2016 we reviewed the completely redesigned 2017 Elantra Sedan in Limited guise as well, but since then Hyundai released new Sport trim for the four-door model and it’s been a breath of fresh air. Just the same the Elantra has a lot going for it, including the five-door Elantra GT. A well laid out and refined cabin makes the Elantra Sport easy to live with. It’s running in third so far this year at 4,334 units despite being second in 2016 with 48,875, but 2017 is still young so we’ll just have to wait and see how things come out in the wash (we should really include Veloster sales in with the Elantra as it’s a sporty compact that effectively does battle with the Civic Coupe, although its miniscule 229 deliveries over Q1 2017 and 1,831 last year won’t help it measure up to the Corolla family second-place sales lead). How about Hyundai and its Elantra? Thought you’d never ask. Hyundai backs up the racy looking Elantra Sport with a 201-hp turbo four and superb handling. With Q1 behind us we probably shouldn’t forecast 2017 as the year of the car’s return, as SUV growth is still at unprecedented rates, but some models give the future of ground-hugging models hope.Īfter hovering around the 65k mark for the past half decade Honda’s Civic once again shows that the market for cars is ripe if you build something people want to buy (consider that thought for a moment Dodge), the ever-growing compact finding 7,251 buyers so far this year and 64,552 during calendar year 2016, while Toyota’s new Corolla family (it now includes the orphaned Scion iM in its ranks) was good for 5,996 deliveries over the first three months of 2017 and 48,195 last year. This good looking compact Hyundai sedan is one of the best performing cars in its class.
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