Monday, April 30, 2012
Check out the 2012 Hyundai Veloster at O'Hare Hyundai
Thursday, April 26, 2012
You've seen the 2012 Hyundai Sonata, now see the revolutionary 2012 Sonata Hybrid!
Be sure to read the unprecedented details that this hybrid offers as you watch the video.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
The Hyundai Spring Event Ends Soon! Don't Miss Out!
Hurry in and drive away in one of Hyundai's award winning models by April 30th!
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Monday, April 23, 2012
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
HYUNDAI MOTOR AMERICA BREAKS ALL-TIME MONTHLY SALES RECORD
"March was the best month in Hyundai's history and capped the best first quarter we've ever recorded," said Dave Zuchowski, Hyundai Motor America's executive vice president of national sales. "Improving vehicle availability, particularly among our most fuel-efficient vehicles, Sonata, Elantra, Accent and Veloster, has fueled this record growth.”
Overall retail sales through dealerships rose 33 percent over last March. Sales of Accent, Sonata and Elantra saw sales increases y-o-y of 28 percent, six percent and eight percent, respectively. Fleet mix remains low at 11 percent for the month.
“As Hyundai continues to offer more fuel-efficient vehicles, we are seeing more and more consumers in our showrooms, resulting in greater 40-mpg highway vehicle sales than ever before,” said John Krafcik, president and CEO of Hyundai Motor America. “Our 40-mpg vehicle sales are up an astonishing 67.5 percent over last March.”
Hyundai’s RWD premium products, Genesis and Equus, saw an outstanding sales increase of 30 percent over March 2011 and are up 35 percent over February. While sales in the CUV segment remained relatively flat, the launch of the all-new 2013 Santa Fe at the New York International Auto Show will bring increased interest and demand in Hyundai’s CUV segment.
Hyundai achieved a corporate average fuel economy level of 37.7 MPG (28.4 MPG label value) in March, while selling 28,636 vehicles (41 percent of total sales) with 40 MPG window label highway fuel economy ratings.
Monday, April 16, 2012
Come and see our full line of all-new Hyundai vehicles at O'Hare Hyundai.
Friday, April 13, 2012
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Hyundai debuts the new 2013 Santa Fe...twice
The first debut was the Santa Fe Sport, a small crossover that seats five. Under its hood, drivers have a choice between either a 190 horsepower direct-injected 2.4-liter engine that should net an estimated 33 highway mpg or the turbocharged and direct-injected 2.0-liter engine that outputs 264 horsepower at the expense of a pair of highway mpg. If these engines sound familiar, it's because they're the same that you can find powering the Hyundai Sonata. Whether this shared architecture means we'll ever see a Santa Fe Hybrid, remains to be seen.
Like the Sonata, the Santa Fe defaults to a front-wheel-drive configuration with a six-speed automatic transmission. Unlike the sedan, however, Hyundai's new crossover can be optioned with an all-wheel drive system that sends power on demand to the rear axle. Through a combination of true torque vectoring and torque braking, Hyundai claims that the Santa Fe Sport can control traction to each individual wheel without the driver ever knowing the system has intervened.
Hyundai also features an interesting Driver Selectable Steering Modes (DSSM) feature that gives users the choice between three settings for the power-steering system. Comfort decreases steering effort by 10 percent from the baseline normal mode for easy one-handed parking lot cruising. Likewise, the Sport setting increases steering effort by 10 percent, while also increasing steering feel for tackling winding roads.
In the cabin, the Santa Fe features the third generation of its navigation and infotainment system and the automaker's BlueLink telematics service, displaying its interface on what is rapidly becoming an industry standard, a large 8-inch touch screen. There's also a mid-tier cabin tech package that uses a smaller 4.3-inch display. However, stepping down from the top-tier also ditches the Santa Fe's Infinity 550-watt, Logic 7 audio system with 11 speakers and an 8-inch powered subwoofer.
When it was done showing off the Santa Fe Sport, Hyundai gave us "one more thing" and pulled the wraps off of a second, long wheelbase version of the crossover, dubbed plainly the Santa Fe. The longer wheelbase makes room for a third row of seats, bumping the capacity up to seven passengers. The bigger vehicle also gets a bigger heart in the form of the 3.3-liter GDI V-6 engine that we saw previously debut under the hood of the Hyundai Azera. Power is estimated at 290 horsepower and the towing capacity is increased to 3,500 pounds. The Santa Fe also gains blind-spot detection to help users cope with the longer chassis. (Blind-spot detection is not available on the smaller Sport.)
Otherwise, the Santa Fe is identical to the Santa Fe Sport, offering the same cabin tech options and all-wheel drive system. Expect to see the 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport hit dealerships in late summer of this year with the larger seven-passenger Santa Fe going on sale in January 2013. Hyundai has yet to release pricing for either model.
Monday, April 9, 2012
The 2012 Hyundai Accent is here at O'Hare Hyundai
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Enjoy awesome pre-owned specials at O'Hare Hyundai
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Hyundai's Tucson is a dynamic drive
Only recently have most crossover suspension designers managed to arrive at a better balance between the size, weight, higher centre of gravity and additional load-carrying requirements of these new-age station wagons and the provision of improved levels of ride comfort allied to handling qualities that actually make them more enjoyable to drive.
Which is the case with the 2012 Hyundai Tucson in its redesigned second-generation form, shape-shifted from SUV-pretender stodgy into something very tasty looking. It also acquired an improved interior and enhanced mechanicals.
Way back in the 1980s, when Hyundai first began to lay down some rubber on the world market skid-pad (and for too long afterwards), it seemingly based its notion of handling on manoeuvring through traffic in congested downtown Seoul and its ride comfort target on 1960s-era Buicks.
And its passenger car suspension tweaks still haven’t entirely managed to find the sweet spot in this balancing act. But the Tucson, perhaps because this generation’s design and driving dynamics were created in Germany rather than South Korea, now has a more competent and confident feel. And a subtler approach to dealing with pavement disturbances.
The suspension design didn’t change significantly, it’s still MacPherson struts up front and an independent multi-link system at the back, although it is attached to a much stiffer body structure. But you sense a more refined orchestration of the interplay between spring rates and dampers (SACHS Amplitude Selective type on the LTD), sway bars and bushings when you take it through an on-ramp arc or a bumpy back-road corner. Or down a typically lumpy city street.
At least in the almost top-of-the-line $32,349 LTD AWD tested. The ride is still decidedly firm as the springs have to support a 1,582-kilogram curb weight, a few kilos more than a loaded mid-size Sonata. And it does cause your body to react to spring road surface frost heaves but it absorbs sharper jolts without transmitting nasty shocks to your personal on-board sensor system.
What’s more to the point is that it brakes hard without front-end-dive, turns-in to corners, even on winter tires, with admirable directness, and stays flat through them. The only thing that lets things down a bit is the electric power steering that changes effort level with engine rpm. Most of the time effort is okay, but at highway velocities it has an artificially heavy feel and odd on-centre behaviour that requires almost constant niggling corrections, particularly in cross winds.
The other major mechanical components in the driving mix are, of course, the engine and transmission. With the second-gen Tucson, Hyundai eighty-sixed its 2.7-litre V-6 in favour of a 2.4-litre four that makes 176 hp and 168 lb-ft of torque, a little more power but a tad less torque than the V-6.
But the power is fed to the wheels more effectively through the new six-speed automatic that can also be shifted manually. Acceleration from 0-100 km/h is in the mid-10-second range, about average for the class, and drivability is good in city traffic.
New for 2012 is ActiveECO mode that electronically manages engine and transmission response and promises an up to 7 per cent improvement in fuel economy. Response using this system isn’t as prompt, but you can live with it, although I’d switch to normal mode around town.
Fuel economy ratings are 10.1 litres/100 km city, 7.1 highway and 8.7 combined. With ActiveECO engaged, I averaged 10.1 litres/100 km over a week and 9.2 at cruising speed on a long section of four-lane highway through rolling hills.
The Tucson’s all-wheel-drive system is of the on-demand type and operates in front-drive mode until it senses a traction need and sends power to the rear wheels. It also has a 50/50 lock mode for serious traction situations.
The cabin is roomy, attractive and functional; with the sunroof and fixed glass rear panel, it’s also bright and open, although rear vision is a bit restricted for the driver.
Front seats are well-shaped and the rear seat fits two comfortably with the hatch out back accessing a useful-sized load area. And on LTD versions there’s lots of stuff, including auto climate control and a good sound system.
There may be some other small crossovers out there that offer a little more practicality but the Hyundai Tucson likely delivers enough of this commodity to suit most needs and wraps it up in one of the most stylish packages available. But what really won me over were its driving dynamics.
Monday, April 2, 2012
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