I30

Hyundai doesn't offer any diesel-powered cars in the US yet (a diesel V-6 is apparently coming to the Veracruz in a couple of years) but many of their overseas models use compression ignition. Also not available to American drivers is the new Hyundai i30 hatchback. That's a shame because automotive journalists down under have just named the i30 CRDi as both their Green Car of the year and overall Car of the Year. The diesel i30 won the Greenfleet category of the recent World Solar Challenge with

We've already been introduced to the Hyundai i10, a sporty city car that's coming to the UK, but we now have a bit more information on the car, which manages to spit out just 119 grams of CO2 per kilometer and gets over 60 mpg (Imperial). The small car - it's 3.56 meters long by 1.59 wide - gets some extra interior space with the wheels shoved pretty far into the corners.

Coming to the UK in January is the tasty, London-congestion-charge free Hyundai i30. Emitting just 119g/km of CO2 from a 115PS 1.6-litre CRDi turbodiesel engine, the i30 will also fit into Britain's upcoming company car band for sub-120 g/km diesels. Taxes on these cars will drop from 18 to 13 percent, and Hyundai is eying corporate buyers to some degree with this car. Hyundai also takes a swipe at the competition with this line from the press release (available after the jump):

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The launch of the new i30 heralds the next market blitz from Hyundai. With each generation of their models, they make such leaps in value and quality, that it's no longer surprising. So, yes, the i30 is a dandylicious C-segment car, and no, they won't sell it to us here in the States. Same story, different company - though it speaks volumes about Hyundai that anyone would have a twinge of jealousy that one of their cars is not part of the selection i

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There's one real easy way to tell whether the car model you're looking at online is available in the U.S. or European market. If you see these words: "a choice of three gasoline and three diesel engines, combined with manual or automatic transmission," you can bet it's not American. That's the case with Hyundai's new i30, the first Hyundai to fall under the company's new vehicle nomenclature (more details on that on Tuesday). The i30 will be available throughout Europe this summer as a 5-door ha

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