Pitched at the teeming masses in Europe's largest market segment, a new generation of the Hyundai i20 hatchback city car likely will get more attention from attendees of the 2014 Paris show than it will from the press.
Hyundai emphasizes that this tater tot is entirely designed, engineered, and built in Europe and tuned for European driving conditions. They made it longer, lower, and wider than the previous i20; it rides on the same wheelbase as the Accent models that live at the bottom of Hyundai's North American lineup. It's a bit shorter overall but wider and taller than the Accent hatchback.
Europe bought more than 400,000 copies of the previous i20 introduced in 2008, nearly doubling Hyundai's market share from 1.5 percent to 2.9 in the B-segment. Styled in Rüsselsheim, Germany, and built in Turkey, the new i20 pastes the corporate Fluidic Sculpture 2.0 language onto a body only 158.8 inches long, or 0.9 shorter than the Ford Fiesta.
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Fifteen-inch base wheels (16′s are available) mount to a strut front suspension and a torsion-beam rear axle, and it boasts disc brakes on all corners for autobahn-level stopping power from the claimed 114-mph top speed. Engine choices start with a 1.2-liter Kappa inline-four making 74 or, in hotter tune, 83 horsepower. A 99-hp gas-burning 1.4-liter can hit 62 mph in a mere 11.6 seconds, says Hyundai. Diesels in 1.1- and 1.4-liter displacements generate 74 and 89 horsepower. Transmissions are a five-speed manual or a CVT, or a four-speed auto with the gas 1.4.
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