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The Hyundai Veloster Turbo - An affordable 'coupe' that may not make it here

The Hyundai Veloster Turbo - An affordable 'coupe' that may not make it here

Rigval

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Hyundai has unveiled the European specced Veloster Turbo at Geneva. This turbocharged version of the quirky Veloster brings a little more power to the car that has all the styling of speed but saddled with only 140 horses from its normally aspirated 1.6-litre engine. With the application of a turbocharger, the Hyundai Veloster Turbo makes 183bhp and about 270Nm torque. Good for the affordable single rear door coupe to have a 0-100km/h time of 8.4seconds compared to the 9.7seconds of the 1180kg normally aspirated car.

 

blogentry-61716-1330997451_thumb.jpg - The normally aspirated Veloster-

This is actually an affordable fastback cum coupe for the masses but unfortunately for us over here, Hyundai has not even brought in the normally aspirated model pictured above. The right hand drive variant has been launched early 2011 and it is already being sold in the UK and Australia. This brings us to the problem of affordability


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GrandCruiser

There's already D-CVVT version available as a test car. GDi will be here in mid-2012. T-GDi is said to be coming here according to the ST. You should know this news since you are a motoring journalist mah?! :)

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Rigval

my apologies...but we have been waiting for that D-CVVT base model since mid-2011. I simply forgot to check about that car till news of this turbo variant came out.

 

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