SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor announced on Monday that its Elantra N TCR (domestically known as the Avante N TCR) clinched the top spot in the second-last race of the 2023 TCR World Tour, held at the Mount Panorama Motor Racing Circuit in Bathurst, Australia, from November 10 to 12. Norbert Michelisz, a [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co. on Monday launched the upgraded Avante compact in the domestic market, with its performance version set to be released later this year. The New Avante, a face-lifted model in three years, comes with a 1.6-liter gasoline, a 1.6 liquid propane injection (LPI), or a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co. said Tuesday its Avante compact has been named this year’s North American Car of the Year in the passenger car segment. The Avante, the Genesis G80 sedan and the Nissan Sentra sedan advanced to the finalists for the 2021 North American Car of the [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s biggest carmaker by sales, on Tuesday launched the all-new Avante compact in the domestic market as it strives to boost sales amid the growing impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Last month, Hyundai unveiled the seventh-generation Avante in the United States ahead of its domestic [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s biggest carmaker by sales, on Wednesday unveiled the all-new Avante compact in the United States ahead of its domestic launch next month. The seventh-generation Avante comes in two versions, one with a 1.6-liter gasoline engine and one with a 1.6 liquefied petroleum gas injection [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co.’s Tucson small SUV was the carmaker’s best-selling vehicle on the global market last month, outpacing the Elantra compact, data showed Monday. In January, Hyundai Motor sold 51,784 Tucson crossovers, exceeding the Elantra’s 48,670, according to South Korea’s largest carmaker. The Elantra, which is sold in the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Domestic tech companies and automobile manufacturers are either releasing new systems or widening access to previously exclusive technology, with the race to establish control over the nascent “connected car” market heating up. Also referred to as futuristic vehicle information service or infotainment service, these systems entail the application [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The Hyundai Avante of South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. became the world’s fourth best-selling car out of 1,382 vehicle models sold last year, data showed Monday. According to the data compiled by the Best Selling Cars Blog, the Hyundai Avante, sold as the Hyundai Elantra in some [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s exports of automobiles plunged 10.8 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, data showed Wednesday, amid falling demand from emerging markets. South Korean carmakers shipped 654,494 units of vehicles abroad over the January-March period, compared with the 733,759 units posted a year earlier, the data compiled by the Korea Automobile Manufacturers’ Association [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. said Sunday that it has launched the latest version of the Avante compact designed to target the Chinese market as it strives to prop up its slumping sales. Hyundai Motor unveiled and started sales of the new version of the Avante, also known as [...]