Ioniq 5 named NZ Car of the Year
/Motoring Writers’ award for five-seater under spotlight for potential update.
Read MoreMotoring Writers’ award for five-seater under spotlight for potential update.
Read MoreA homage to a Kiwi hero’s most famous rallying ride finally hits the street.
Read MoreFuel cell big rigs are the future, brand proposes, but commercial availability is still years away.
Read MoreNow Hyundai’s high-brow division has three battery-pure products as potential candidates for local sale.
Read MoreMassive electric sports utility sister ship to Ioniq 5 is fully revealed.
Read More'Parametric Pixel' lights and a lounge inside are features of a design study that previews the make’s next member of the Ioniq electric car family.
Read MoreSign-off to allow new model to act as a mobile power station almost reached.
Read MoreEven with it being given build prioritisation, solid supply of the latest electric car from Hyundai to Kiwis is far from certain.
Read MoreHyundai explains why it’s not yet making much of a local song and dance about the Ioniq 5.
Read MoreThis electronic device has facial recognition and fingerprint recognition smarts … and it isn’t your phone.
Read MorePricing of the Kona N raises potential for sibling rivalry within Hyundai’s expanding ‘N’ performance model family.
Read MoreSouth Korea’s biggest carmaker has dropped a seriously large H bomb.
Read MoreFirst look at the car that might bring Hyundai’s premium marque back to New Zealand.
Read MoreHyundai’s new van arrives in two eight-seat formats for family use and three commercial models.
Read MoreSEVERAL legislative amendments tied to Government’s push to clean up vehicle emissions might be impossible to enact in the cited timeframes and will cost consumers and hugely disrupt vehicle supply, Hyundai’s NZ boss contends.
Read MoreAN entry version of Hyundai’s crucial new Ioniq 5 electric car will achieve eligibility for Government’s EV feebate, according to pricing and information on the brand’s website.
Read MoreTHE Hyundai equivalent of a popular Kia sports utility, now pulling mainstream media interest as result of its recall, is also at risk of catching fire due to an electronic fault in the engine bay.
A remedial action for the current generation Hyundai Tucson sold here posted nationally in early April, so almost five weeks ago, though the brand was taking questions about it much earlier – MotoringNZ.com first publicised the matter in a story on February 11.
Read MoreAN Australian team has, by driving a Hyundai Nexo fuel cell electric vehicle somewhat conservatively, broken the world record for the longest distance travelled in a hydrogen-powered vehicle on a single tank.
Brendan Reeves, an Australian rally driver, drove a production specification Nexo for a claimed distance of 887.5km, exceeding the previous world record of 778km set by a Frenchman, Bertrand Piccard, also at the wheel of a Nexo, and the manufacturer-claimed range of 666km (measured on the WLTP scale).
Read MorePOTENTIALLY more than half of the 800 electric Hyundai Konas so far sold in New Zealand are set to require a battery transplant, with surgery unlikely to start before August.
Even this is still something of a guesstimate for Hyundai New Zealand, with the Auckland-based distributor admitting it is still chasing up vital information from the factory, two months after Seoul announced a worldwide plan to replace the drivetrain-vital battery pack.
Read MoreTHAT look of excitement you should feel when driving a steroidal performance model?
Hyundai reckons it’s worthy of a special button in its latest N model.
Revealed internationally overnight and set for New Zealand introduction later this year, for an as yet undisclosed price, the high-performance edition of the Kona crossover has many features to distinguish itself from the mainstream models – including what they taken to call the ‘N Grin’ button.
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