I Just Want You All To Realize

"Wobbles the Mind" (wobblesthemind) 09/30/2016 at 19:18 • Filed to: Hyundai Elantra GT, Hyundai i30

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This little car is now the most important thing with a Hyundai badge on the front for the fourth largest automaker in the world. All vehicles from the Hyundai brand will now be FWD-based only. But when you think about it, excluding age old performance cars and trucks, we are witnessing every commodity level automaker transforming their compact cars into the pinnacles of the brand. Look at all the forms of the new Civic, Focus, Golf, and now the Elantra.

In regards to the US, the days of the fullsize sedan being the flagship model are long gone, and now the midsize sedans are falling away quickly (even the Accord is being positioned as second to the Civic in the US with this new generation).

We could be seeing a very different form of future cars like the Corolla/Auris/iM, Mazda3, Impreza/WRX, Cruze, Forte, Lancer, etc. Get excited, the US about to get a huge amount of 200hp plus compact cars for under $25k with every tech feature automakers can fit inside them.

But the best part...they are all hatchbacks and their being sold in the US! Can’t wait for the European subcompact performance hatches to finally make it over here BEFORE autonomous cars takeover!

El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! > Wobbles the Mind 09/30/2016 at 19:53

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White bread people will still buy their Camry and Accord.

Wobbles the Mind > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 09/30/2016 at 20:11

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White bread is dying, whole grain is the altnerative boring future!

random001 > Wobbles the Mind 09/30/2016 at 20:13

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N30 or bust

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > Wobbles the Mind 09/30/2016 at 20:26

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I don’t think autonomous cars are going to take over, ever. They’ll be too expensive for poor people to maintain. I’d go into more detail, but I’m kind of tired of rebutting the autonomous hype train :)

Audistein > Wobbles the Mind 09/30/2016 at 20:43

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The RWD flagship sedans and coupes got moved to a new brand called “Genesis”. They didn’t go away entirely.

I don’t know if they’ll be a new, RWD, Mustang/370Z competitor or whatever that Hyundai thing was. Seems like that could go either way. There might be a RWD performance luxury coupe to compete with that Infinity coupe under the Genesis brand.

wafflesnfalafel > random001 09/30/2016 at 22:15

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yeah - I’d really like to drive an N30, see if Hyundai really has figured out brakes and a suspension set up. It sure does sound cool and it looks good.

Axial > Wobbles the Mind 10/01/2016 at 00:51

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Toyota will do nothing exciting with the Corolla. Toyota does absolutely nothing exciting with anything except once every 15 or so years. That one thing is then extremely expensive and produced in limited numbers before being cancelled and we’re back to waiting.

So much talent in the company, so little interest in investing any emotion into their products.

Wheelerguy > random001 10/02/2016 at 04:04

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This is a good badge.

RT > Axial 10/02/2016 at 07:02

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That sums up modern Toyota alright, agree with you there.

But in the 90s and earlier, they did make a lot of exciting vehicles at once: MR2, Supra, Celica GT-Four, Sprinter Trueno, Lexus SC etc.

Plus if you count their Land Cruiser and Hilux trucks, they have always been pretty good in that department. Same goes with large sedans such as the Chaser, Crown and Century - though they were never sold in the US. The first gen Lexus LS was pretty good all things considered though.