Having sorted out the looks of its offerings and shoring up things on the quality front, Hyundai now has its sights fixed on improving the ride and handling aspects of its vehicles, and that of Kia as well.
News reports indicate that the company has begun construction of a 10,000 sq ft test centre at Nürburgring. When completed, the US$7.3 million facility will provide the perfect stomping ground for the Korean carmaker to evaluate its new designs and improve on something that has been – and remains – that bit elusive.
That’s all set to change with the arrival of the facility. Access to the track will not only allow work to be carried out on developing driving dynamics, but will also provide a perfect means to evaluate reliability and durability. Feedback gained from the test centre will be channeled to engineers at the European R&D centre in Rüsselsheim, Germany.
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aioyoo. Now I know why I am losing a lot of Toyota sales. Toyota has become so comfortable and has stopped investing. Koreans on the other hand have upped their game by doing a lot of research and development. If this continues, Hyundai will eventually overtake Toyota in sales several years down the road. To be honest, I have tried Altis and the new Elantra, and the Elantra beats the Altis to kingdom come when handling is concerned.
elantra ride&handling is suck as well
how about the resale value? :P
I started to feel sick with this resale value comment..unless real sam loo can came up with new idea to make it fun again !
Does Cologne (Marsdorf) rings any bell to you? If not, well..
Time to sell Hyundai then. Also good lah, can tell seller poor resale value, press down the price, and when you sell again get higher price cause more demand.
Time to resign and sell Hyundai.
Test facility at Nürburgring?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
You got to be kidding to say Elantra beats Altis in handling..Altis is not good in this area but Elantra is far worst.
Fake Fella
No need Germany R&D.We Protong R&D in Tanjung Malim also can..Why spend more??
Proton R&D is done by Lotus. So of course it will be good.
thats why Protong selling in 1 country only, and the Korean are selling in 1 globe.
Proton has Lotus and years mastering Lotus skills in Ride Handling. Why need to waste another billion of tax payer money to built a Nurburgring facility?
Even our Sepang Curcuit is not fully utilise.
cant wait to hear James May’s (Top Gear UK) comments on this.. hehehe
Bad news! Hyundai is testing their cars on the Nordschleife.
I thought Top Gear is fine with the current gen of Korean cars.
Splendid
Ok, I’ll start buy Hyundai/Kia brand after output from the test facility applied into their cars..
You will say shoot! I made a mistake. Now the ride is hard as rock!
Hyundai, just go to Lotus and ask for assistance. That’s all. Lotus was always known for Premium ride handling and comfort.
Nurburgring based haven’t met Lotus ability.
I don’t know weather this is good or bad news. good news because all Hyundai have rather bad dynamics for a car, Bad news because will they solely focus on dynamics and ignore driving comfort as most Nurburgring cas have or according to Mr MAy
Well you can’t have the extreme both end of the world (unless you are on adaptive suspension). The korean’s suspension has always been on the soft side, a little nordschleife should be able to stiffen it up and make it sharper.
Really hope they don’t overdo it
To be fair though the Nordschleife is a relatively uneven racetrack. Haven’t had the chance to drive on it, only watched a race there. But the roads leading up to it are bloody brilliant. Great fun. Anyway yes the reason the track is so popular is because it sort of resembles normal roads. They might optimize for comfort too there, at least to a certain degree (no pot holes, no speed bumps).
Hyundai and kia know they already take the world with their european designer, now the tackle one of their weakness. The ride and handling. Once done, toyota will eat dust
The real Sam Loo is here, and that Sam Loo is not the real one, some Korean fans never cease to amaze me.
Bluff. I am the real Sam Loo. Toyoda forever and ever.
How many times James May stress out cars from Nurburgring based are rubbish as daily commute cars. It made the car hard and not comfortable for daily commute. If Hyundai can make it abit softer, than it would be great.
Or add Lotus terminology to it “Add Lightness and stiffer under chassis”
Haha. James May is gonna love this. He is never getting inside a Hyundai.
To all proton lover and owner by the next 10 years proton will closed shop locally. Whereas kia n hyundai maerket globally.
Yes yes. You and your close shop terminology. Even if the pakatan rule, then you will still say close shop.
Tell that to all Malaysian companies out there to close shop so you have no job and whining that Africa is richer than you.
If Pakatan wins, which we do hope they do, what makes you think theyll reduce proton protectionism?
Jobs are at stake, and jobs= votes. Do you think theyll risk that? Not delivering promises doesnt cost you votes, but making people lose their jobs as a result of your direct action will.
Look at Obama, he got his second term. He didnt deliver all his promises but he kept the GM factory alive.
Its all rhetoric mate. Politicians promise the sun moon, earth, Megan Fox… But crunch time theyll just disappear.
Guys and girls… with all these investment of Hyundai here and there, it won’t be long before their price rises above the others.
Thats what they were saying in Europe, the usual advantage of Hyundai being cheaper is gone.
So many people like to imitate me. Looks like you guys are trying to join the bandwagon selling used kimchi ?