Hyundai to accelerate European market expansion through UEFA EUROTOP 2010-17 sponsorship

Hyundai Motor Company will serve as the official sponsor of the UEFA EURO 2012 and UEFA EURO 2016.A strategic sponsorship agreement with UEFA was signed today by Steve S. Yang, President and CEO of Hyundai Motor, Hyoung-Keun Lee, president of Kia Motors Corporation, and Michel Platini, President of UEFA, Union of European Football Associations, at the company’s headquarters in Seoul, extending the company’s sponsorship to cover the 2012 and 2016 UEFA European Football Championship.


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After Toyota, Honda, Maruti, Hyundai is the latest one to join the recall list. Media reports suggest that the Korean auto giant has announced that it would recall over 47,000 units of its premium sedan 'Sonata' from its home market as well as the US to rectify a door lock problem, even though the move will not have any impact in India. It is to be mentioned that the model ‘YF Sonata’ has not been introduced in India yet. Just for the record, the YF Sonata also bagged the IIHS Top Safety Award for 2011 in US. The award is presented to the car that scores a good rating in front, side, rear and roll over crashes.


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Hyundai i-Flow Concept Car to premiere at 2010 Geneva Auto Show

At this year’s Salon International de L’Automobile in Geneva on March 2nd, Hyundai will unveil an all-new concept car which pioneers a new look for a D-segment sedan. A sketch revealed today gives a first glimpse of the concept car – named i-flow – which will make its world premiere at next month’s show.
Styled at the company’s European design headquarters in Russelsheim, Germany, i-flow is expected to attract much attention, thanks to its striking appearance – the latest product of the company’s evocative new form language, ‘fluidic sculpture’. The name i-flow reflects the exceptionally aerodynamic shape and the flowing lines of the concept car’s eye-catching styling, and retains the ‘i’ prefix of Hyundai’s established nomenclature.

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Mid-size cars now to have CNG and LPG kits

Discerning the burgeoning demand for cars that run on alternate fuel like Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), a number of car companies like GM, Hyundai, etc, Toyota, Maruti, M&M are in the process of launching an array of models in such segments shortly, especially in the models of their C and D segment, reports The Economic Times exclusively.
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