That’s right folks, Ford’s EcoBoosted hot hatch, the little brother to the Focus ST, will start at just $21,400, undercutting both the Hyundai Veloster Turbo ($22,100) and the Fiat 500 Abarth ($22,000).
With the extra power on tap, we found the Turbo to be very forgiving. Shifting too soon and landing too low in the revs was not a huge problem. Just lay into the accelerator, and the forced induction makes up for any errors. Yes, we were surely slower when we did that, but the engine didn’t feel...
My wife, Catheryn, and I recently spent the week in Arizona visiting some family. Our car for the week: a Vitamin C (read: orange—and it got a lot of looks from passersby) Hyundai Veloster. I was happy to finally get a chance to spend some time with the car, as I had missed out on any decent...
Hyundai took the wraps off the hotly anticipated Veloster Turbo at today’s North American International Auto Show. The Veloster Turbo is destined to go toe-to-toe with the Volkswagen GTI, Honda Civic Si, and Mini Cooper S.
We were on hand for the debut of Hyundai’s newest hot hatch, the 201-horsepower Veloster Turbo. It looked striking in its matte gray paint (which is actually going to make production), and we got plenty of snaps of the new car.
According to Hyundai’s twitter feed, we’ll be getting the souped-up Veloster that we’ve always wanted. Yes, there will be a turbocharged Veloster, and we’ll be seeing it first hand at the 2011 North American International Auto Show. Giving additional credence to this statement are three...
Hyundai can do popular styling—this we know. If we’re judging by word on the street, the response of our readership, and our own personal tastes, we can say with some level of confidence that recent Hyundai newbies like the Sonata and Elantra are widely viewed as attractive cars. Even the...
In advance of our upcoming drive of the Veloster, Hyundai has put the sales configurator online. Of course, we had to go in and see how expensive we could option out this 138-horsepower compact hatchback.