As you’ve known, Hyundai has changed it’s naming scheme. Rather than using pretentious un-Korean names like Velacruz and Santa Fe, it has decided to adopt an alphanumeric naming scheme, ala BMW and Mercedes. All Hyundai cars will have an i prefix, a numeric segment identifier, and an alphabetical suffix to denote it’s body type. Hyundai chose i because of it’s association with technology products, as well as the association with the word inspire. As for the numbers:
i10 = A segment
i20 = B segment
i30 = C segment
i40 = D segment
i50 = E segment
If the car is a station wagon, it will receive suffixes like CW, which Hyundai says stands for Cross-Wagon. A Cross-Wagon is of course nothing more than a fancy name for a stationwagon. An example would be the Hyundai i30 CW stationwagon. A Hyundai i40 or i50 is also coming up soon, to be based on the Hyundai Concept Genesis V8 rear wheel driven sedan.
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Once a car manufacturing company undergoes developement to certain level, is good to having a standart naming scheme for its cars.
The consumer also easily to know the car type once read the car name, like Merz C, E, S, CLK, CL, ML, GL and etc..
Good for consumer
Having a standardize name sure make it easier
Haha, but the rest of the world still will notice it is a Hyundai no matter what kind of silly naming standard they are applying.
Nice going, it does help in identifying car types and makes the car line-up more formal haha.
Pretty good idea.
Makes its cars more "noticeable". And takes out the painstaking process of thinking of names to identify their range of cars.
Cheers!
what about proton saga, iswara, satria, wira, perdana, then bla bla bla or may be proton hang tuah…
the next step should be having distinctive styling for their product line-up, just like volvo, bmw or merc, so that people will know it's a hyundai at the first glance.
seancheaw said,
April 16, 2007 @ 9:08 am
Haha, but the rest of the world still will notice it is a Hyundai no matter what kind of silly naming standard they are applying.
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huh? what wrong are u? what wrong for the ppl notice is a Hyundai car?
Ada apa pada nama.
u can call a horse – the four leg with bushy tail and nick backside which you can ride during horse riding competition.
u also can all a pig – a hyundai with reddish skin, made in Korea with cheap plastic.
opss.. sorry.
The side profile looks so much like BMW 1 series.
the design looks bangle
well its easier to pronounce, then will not be on the bad end of the cool wall caused its call the "savvy" LOL
seancheaw said,
April 16, 2007 @ 9:08 am
Haha, but the rest of the world still will notice it is a Hyundai no matter what kind of silly naming standard they are applying.
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huh? what wrong are u? what wrong for the ppl notice is a Hyundai car?
—————————————————————-coz i think korean cars are rubbish, they are adoptin a name scheme based on bmw, i don like it, and its freedom of speech.so wat?
seancheaw said,
April 17, 2007 @ 3:14 pm
seancheaw said,
April 16, 2007 @ 9:08 am
Haha, but the rest of the world still will notice it is a Hyundai no matter what kind of silly naming standard they are applying.
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huh? what wrong are u? what wrong for the ppl notice is a Hyundai car?
—————————————————————-coz i think korean cars are rubbish, they are adoptin a name scheme based on bmw, i don like it, and its freedom of speech.so wat?
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so what? so so lah.. sure one have the freedom of speech and im not meant to offense..
I tot u have some poor experience on korean car to share..
since u only "THINK" that korean cars are rubbish, the go ahead to think so lah!!!
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NiceCar said,
April 19, 2007 @ 8:04 am
seancheaw said,
April 17, 2007 @ 3:14 pm
seancheaw said,
April 16, 2007 @ 9:08 am
Haha, but the rest of the world still will notice it is a Hyundai no matter what kind of silly naming standard they are applying.
___________________________________________________________________________
huh? what wrong are u? what wrong for the ppl notice is a Hyundai car?
—————————————————————-coz i think korean cars are rubbish, they are adoptin a name scheme based on bmw, i don like it, and its freedom of speech.so wat?
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so what? so so lah.. sure one have the freedom of speech and im not meant to offense..
I tot u have some poor experience on korean car to share..
since u only “THINK†that korean cars are rubbish, the go ahead to think so lah!!!
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actually if u compared hyundai to proton. i remember in the 80s hyundai cars are on par with proton like the old excel and the saga. but the new sonata compared to perdana? the gen 2 compared to verna? i think its not so rubbish after all. of course we are not comparing hyundai to bmw or even honda. they know where they stand and they are MOVING to their goals. whereas some other company has lots of talks and seem like still henta kaki