An all-Korean trio battled it out for the coveted annual AJAC honour of ‘Canadian Car of the Year’. We have to give props to almost 2200 AutoBlog Canada readers who participated in our online Poll and successfully predicted the winner with over half of our voters choosing the Hyundai Elantra over other finalists Kia Optima [...]
Congratulations to Winnipeg, Manitoba resident Randy Granger for winning Hyundai’s global Musical Shorts online video contest. The contest was run on YouTube and took submissions from all over the world. The main criteria for entering was to produce an 80-second video that used a Mason Bates music track called “Mothership”. Hyundai assembled a panel of [...]
Hyundai-Kia is truly on a roll and they’re breaking new sales ground across the board. In the U.S., Hyundai-Kia claimed over 10% of the U.S. market in May for the first time in its history. Now the South Korean automaker is blazing a new trail in Canada. Hyundai-Kia usurped Honda and Toyota in May by [...]
With so much attention and focus on gas-powered hybrids or full electrified vehicles, one can be forgiven if Hydrogen-power had slipped from your mind. However, at least one car manufacturer (and there are others) have continued developing Hydrogen fuel cell alternatives and Hyundai in particular now appears ready to go mainstream with their Hydrogen vision [...]
We’ve been very impressed with the evolution of the Hyundai Sonata in recent years and their latest offering continues this positive trend. Good design, solid performance and excellent value are all traits of the Hyundai Sonata and now you can add ‘Hybrid’ to the mix. Hyundai has just announced $29,999 Canadian pricing for the all-new [...]
2010 was a banner year for Hyundai sales in North America. They moved 110,000+ vehicles in Canada which is a new record for the Korean automaker. Leading the growth was the Hyundai Sonata sedan which hit the 200,000 sales milestone in North America for the first time. “Sonata has delivered some pretty incredible results for [...]
Hyundai recently unveiled the Russian assembled new Accent sub-compact sedan at the Moscow International Auto Show. It is widely expected to make its North American debut at the Montreal International Auto Show in January 2011. The completely redesigned Accent sedan is both longer (2.3 inches) and wider than its predecessor and boasts a slightly more [...]
