Hyundai has enjoyed unprecedented year on year growth in Europe despite the continent’s declining new-car market. Much of that is owed to its recent design overhaul, and with Peter Schreyer now overseeing both Kia and Hyundai’s design centres, things are looking rosy for the Korean carmaker.
Dynamic prowess has long eluded the company however, an issue that it wishes to resolve by opening a purpose-built Hyundai test centre at the Nurburgring track in Germany. The new permanent facility is due for completion by August 2013, and is a natural extension to Hyundai’s current R&D centre in Rüsselsheim, also in Germany.
Convenient access to the world’s toughest circuit will provide Hyundai (and by extension, Kia too) the needed capacity to complete accelerated durability tests as well as assessing steering, suspension, ride and handling characteristics to produce set-ups suited to the preferences of European drivers.
The €5.5 million test base will house the on-ground development work of future Hyundai models. Eleven new vehicles are set to benefit from the facility this year alone, which may include production versions of Hyundai’s most recent concepts, the HND-9, HCD-14 Genesis and i-oniq pictured below.
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Where is Proton test center? Sepang? Batu Tiga?
Proton fanboy will test it out in street racing at nite ala Fast n Furious.Test centre tak main…
Roundabout in Jalan 222.
probably on an abandoned airport runway (hint: top gear).. or any public road perhaps.. the more potholes and speed bumps the better..
why??????????? even for performance cars….since when the green hell is the sort of place we all usually race in? come to Malaysia ulu yam or bukit tinggi la
hyundai n kia is out to d world but our “potong” still kampung hero only…. d point is not on d test center but they shd come out with a more reliable, low fuel consumption engine instead of d stupid campro…….