Hyundai Veloster Coupe – opening doors to a new take

Hyundai Veloster Coupe – opening doors to a new take
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It does get convoluted with doors, sometimes, what with two-, three-, four- and five-doors to contend with, mentally speaking. You can imagine a coupe or hatch for the first two designations, a sedan for the third and a hatch for the last.

Now, if you were told that the Hyundai Veloster Coupe, which is set for its world premiere next week in Detroit, has three doors, or four if you will (see, it gets confusing), what would you imagine?

Not quite what you would, really, because the Veloster isn’t exactly quite shaped up like the 2007 HND-3 Concept, even if it does retain the name, which is an amalgamation of velocity and roadster.

This one features two doors on the passenger side and a single, larger door on the driver’s side. A bit like the Clubman, but this one is a full-sized offering, which translates to far easier ingress/egress for the rear occupants even with right-hand drive compared to the Mini. A large tail gate makes it four doors, if you want to be sticky about designation.

No details have been announced, aside from the teaser photo released by Hyundai, though reports are that the car will come wearing a 1.6 litre direct-injection four-cylinder pot and a dual-clutch tranny. More to come next week when the Veloster arrives.

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Anthony Lim believes that nothing is better than a good smoke and a car with character, with good handling aspects being top of the prize heap. Having spent more than a decade and a half with an English tabloid daily never being able to grasp the meaning of brevity or being succinct, he wags his tail furiously at the idea of waffling - in greater detail - about cars and all their intrinsic peculiarities here.

 

Comments

  • raydenz on Jan 06, 2011 at 11:09 am

    it would be nice if we can see the car…
    but i’ll bet..it is nice

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  • Mozilla Chrome on Jan 06, 2011 at 11:16 am

    That’s weird..

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  • Chilavert on Jan 06, 2011 at 11:19 am

    wow the back door opening is too high
    need a ladder everytime we want to close it.

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    • jackspeed on Jan 06, 2011 at 11:48 am

      or maybe it comes with remote control boot?

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    • maybe having an electronic button to press for closing that door.. =P

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    • Goproton on Jan 06, 2011 at 12:13 pm

      agree man…haha…too high….==’…maybe have to close from the side…

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    • handsome*dude on Jan 06, 2011 at 12:23 pm

      its not like your car, just make sure it has the car battery, its a power boot…

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  • Johndeep on Jan 06, 2011 at 2:25 pm

    although it is powered boot, carpark with roof or underground carpark can be a problem.

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    • rossi46 on Jan 06, 2011 at 4:08 pm

      same prob for most MPV pwner except this veloce will be less problematic due to its lower roof line compared to most mpv

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  • arcana on Jan 06, 2011 at 6:14 pm

    very unique……and definitely cant use the boot in a low ceiling parking zone…

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