New Hyundai Verna Transform (facelifted Accent)
The model that we know as the Hyundai Accent has been updated in Korea and called the Hyundai Verna Transform, a naming scheme that seems to echo the Sonata facelift which was also called a Sonata Transform.
Most of the equipment and engines remain the same and the only other change from the exterior looks seem to be an Eco indicator on the instrumentation panel which lets you know when you are driving economically, a revised dash design and blue backlighting for the dashboard instead of green. Those stuff they put on the grille don’t really look too good on such a narrow grille.
While its sibling Kia’s cars are all very aesthetically pleasing now, it looks like Hyundai still has to work hard on establishing its own corporate design language. It went one direction with the i30 and i20 but everything suddenly changed with the Genesis, and then now we have this. Kia’s design language thanks to Peter Schreyer is very stable with its simple but sleek and dynamic-looking designs and the Schreyer grille identity.
Check out more photos after the jump.
June 5, 2009 @ 2:34 am
1st!!
June 5, 2009 @ 2:35 am
First word comes in my mind…..not transfomers, but ugly
June 5, 2009 @ 2:36 am
Yeakks!!…looks abit like the old Kia Spectra…but the chicks are pretty,hek hek…
June 5, 2009 @ 2:41 am
model look nicer then the car!!
June 5, 2009 @ 2:48 am
design disaster
June 5, 2009 @ 2:50 am
design disaster.
cheers!
June 5, 2009 @ 2:52 am
lol.. i’m not looking at de car.. but the show girls.. haha. the car is drop dead ugly -.-
June 5, 2009 @ 3:09 am
It looks like some kind of angry crab or prawn.
June 5, 2009 @ 3:13 am
models show, look at my boobs. Car is real ugly. The logo area spoilt the whole thing
June 5, 2009 @ 3:14 am
omg….its super ugly….
June 5, 2009 @ 3:29 am
LOL should not be allowed to be sold here.!!! Tighter security is needed in all our international borders to prevent the smuggling of this, er,.. angry crab, or something…
..just kidding
June 5, 2009 @ 3:30 am
BTW I think our Gen2 front profile look much nicer than this one.
June 5, 2009 @ 3:42 am
If the car could speak… “Somebody whack my designer, please!”
June 5, 2009 @ 3:48 am
Damm its looks more uglier then dugong… I guess the designer got his idea after having a seafood meal thtz y it looks like some kinda angry crab,prawn.. lolz……
June 5, 2009 @ 4:05 am
All those crab and prawn allso come from sea lah, but they are not a mamalia like dugong. This is Hyundai Altis Vios aka pawn crab dugong.
June 5, 2009 @ 4:45 am
[quote comment="243151"]It looks like some kind of angry crab or prawn.[/quote]
it looks more like some kind of retarded crab or prawn to me.
haha
cheers!
June 5, 2009 @ 8:49 am
Woo… dude, I thought the other car (V**S) is ugly but this one already book its place in the ugliest car award.
Have nothing positive to say about this car accept… Yucks!
The chick is hot by the way..
June 5, 2009 @ 8:51 am
not nice at all…
what were the designers/stylist thinking wen they come up with this design???
June 5, 2009 @ 9:00 am
Vios married with Gen2, and their son named Verna
June 5, 2009 @ 9:03 am
it just me or why the head lamp look like the Gen2/persona one???
the front design look like Gen2/persona(head lamp)+vios(front grill)+insect???
weird design……
June 5, 2009 @ 9:19 am
the front design look complicated..
June 5, 2009 @ 9:19 am
i suddenly ’sakit kepala’ when looking at the front of this facelifted Accent.
Hyundai is slowly moving to become “T No. 2″ – no engine improvements, just more makeup (and markup!)
however, thanks to the models, my “sakit kepala” hilang instanteneously.
June 5, 2009 @ 9:23 am
Spoiled the current model pleasant look. Thought they have got some good direction for their lineup, this is going backward.
June 5, 2009 @ 9:33 am
the 7th and 8th picture soooo nice..with the babes..hehe..
WoooW.. big and marvellous…hehe!!
so, later Gen2 and Personas’s owner can convert their headlamp an bumper to this new brand Hyundai.. rite?
and also, Hyundai owner can also get sparepart by using gen2 headlamp..
June 5, 2009 @ 9:40 am
current facelift Accent is much-much nicer than dis “transformation”…
June 5, 2009 @ 9:53 am
ugly car ever.
The front grill kinda weird bcoz using big blade.
head lamp like my persona lah..
i give 1/10. firm..
June 5, 2009 @ 10:20 am
Looks like pouty lip. Start making the Accent SR concept laaa, aiyohh!!
June 5, 2009 @ 10:33 am
very bad..current verna looks nicer..
June 5, 2009 @ 10:34 am
Hyundai seem not to know which direction they would want to go design wise. The current range all seem a bit bubbly and soft, lacking a distinct character which started with the jelly bean Santa Fe
FWIW though, the Genesis is a good looking car.
June 5, 2009 @ 10:59 am
import the girls! not the car~!!
but angry crab.. this is funny!!
June 5, 2009 @ 11:00 am
nice….i mean the girl…:)
for a minute i thought this was the facelifted dugong…
June 5, 2009 @ 11:10 am
Will sell well in China. I guess they should employ a bunch of Americans or Europeans and open a design center overseas too. Just like Proton. Must mention Proton maa..;) in any thread…ahakss
June 5, 2009 @ 11:14 am
damn. The new sonata spyshot also features this double-jaw grille thing.
June 5, 2009 @ 11:30 am
Haha, Ya, facelift front esp. the grille look like back to old century type. See
where the fingers of the Model pointing at better ! not the front of the car.
How is the back look like ?
June 5, 2009 @ 11:36 am
Looks like a ugly looking reptile. This looks like they are going back to the older organic like design of the past model. Reminds me of the first Hyundai coupe.
June 5, 2009 @ 11:44 am
hyundai accident
June 5, 2009 @ 11:45 am
I think it is better than the Dugong wo…
June 5, 2009 @ 11:47 am
[quote comment="243210"]Haha, Ya, facelift front esp. the grille look like back to old century type. See
where the fingers of the Model pointing at better ! not the front of the car.
How is the back look like ?[/quote]
Dude, Which back? car or girl… hehehe
June 5, 2009 @ 11:55 am
Aiyo! Tis truly fugly – besides being a crabby prawn it also resembles some ancient Korean trishaw. Yep the model is pointing to her boobs…
June 5, 2009 @ 11:58 am
Wau, love the girls… but the car, err…..not seems to get my attention.
June 5, 2009 @ 12:18 pm
Looks more to angry crab to me.. Just kidding.
The current Accent nicer than this facelift.. IMO
Salam..
June 5, 2009 @ 12:45 pm
aweful , wat wer they thinking ?
June 5, 2009 @ 1:26 pm
it looks like there just put the bumper near a fire and it melts .
June 5, 2009 @ 2:00 pm
i wont say its ugly xz if u look more careful, it doesnt have similarity with Pesona, which I find quite ok.
June 5, 2009 @ 4:11 pm
Is okay.Safety come first. Hyundai Accent aka Hyundai Accindent.
June 5, 2009 @ 4:26 pm
i hope all the crab society around the world will not feel annoyed when they see this design…huhu..
crab or crap?…whatever..
June 5, 2009 @ 5:25 pm
nice lady..
June 5, 2009 @ 6:06 pm
[quote comment="243158"]All those crab and prawn allso come from sea lah, but they are not a mamalia like dugong. This is Hyundai Altis Vios aka pawn crab dugong.[/quote]
emmmm, what’s mamalia?
June 5, 2009 @ 6:31 pm
wow!! nice boobs..
June 5, 2009 @ 7:53 pm
[quote comment="243240"]
emmmm, what’s mamalia?[/quote]
Kawan, try google tanslate to translate Indonesian to English.
http://translate.google.com/translate_t
The crab pawn are so Korean as well the girl.
The girl need dressing the Naza brand shirt before import.
I think you all got wrong mistake, this is really Korean’s dugong species came from Korean’s great sea but it really look like crab pawn.
June 6, 2009 @ 1:26 am
Geez guys.. Just turn off ya light and view the car at night.. man its scary… Whatta design.Aiyoo… whatta hack went wrong wif the designer….Well i this if this car is used in the movie transformers, It wouldn’t be called bumblebee but BULUBABI.. Lolzzzzzzz
June 6, 2009 @ 1:54 am
Better than the Balik Kampung Proton, after transformed still looks same ..haha!
June 6, 2009 @ 8:22 am
[quote comment="243148"]design disaster[/quote]
Agreed. looks scary
June 6, 2009 @ 8:36 am
Dont hits me mr Verna Transform.. Please!
June 6, 2009 @ 10:25 am
name it anything…
“what r the new and old accent have in common?”
answer : terrible design..
but paul, where’s the rear pic?
June 6, 2009 @ 11:27 am
looks like the creature in Ultraman series~~
June 6, 2009 @ 1:57 pm
so ugly ’seafood’ car
June 6, 2009 @ 2:23 pm
Hyundai Lobster!!! In red, ready for dinner serving.
Hyundai design work really gone the wrong way. They should look up to brother KIA how to go forward with their styling dept!!!
June 6, 2009 @ 2:30 pm
looks great mostly the last 2!!!!!
June 6, 2009 @ 3:47 pm
accent design never looked good. it will win ugly car of the year award always
June 6, 2009 @ 4:26 pm
the front, to me an odd amalgamation of the gen2 and current vios, strangely brings to mind some kind of insect
June 6, 2009 @ 6:28 pm
the front is so damn weird and ugly, no wonder the promo girls rather point their own boobs, not the car…..
June 6, 2009 @ 8:00 pm
soft shell crab
June 6, 2009 @ 10:26 pm
headlamps and bumper is not bad……..but the grill is ugly
June 8, 2009 @ 11:34 am
The front grill look damn urgly, like those A Beng aftermarket face lift.
June 8, 2009 @ 5:53 pm
remind me of Kia Sephia front grill.. Maybe hyundai admiring Kia Sephia design… haha
June 9, 2009 @ 10:37 am
i like the chick in the pink top.
June 9, 2009 @ 1:18 pm
This crab is crap
June 17, 2009 @ 12:24 pm
since when hyundai hired an “ah beng” to do the facelift jobs for the Accent/Verna?