Hyundai renews the Elantra sedan (C-segment)
- The sedan Elantra (Avante in some markets) is the Hyundai model brand the most sold in the world. Created in 1990 to compete with the popular Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla in the Asian and North American markets, the Elantra is very little spread in Europe where another C-segment model of the Hyundai brand predominates: the i30 which is produced since 2007 in the Czech Republic.
- Globally, Elantra totaled nearly 950,000 sales in 2013 and nearly 800,000 sales in 2015, against less than 200,000 sales of the i30 model. Due to such bigger sales volume in the world, replacing the Elantra is crucial for the Hyundai brand. The previous generation dated back to 2010.
- The new generation unveiled in 2016 is based on the platform used by the recent Kia Forte (known as Kia K3 in some markets), as Hyundai and Kia models now share all their platforms.
- The Elantra is manufactured as previously on five production sites: Ulsan (South Korea), Montgomery (Alabama USA), Beijing (China), Chennai (India) and Kaliningrad (Russia). In 2015, Korea produced 300,000 Elantra, China 300,000 as well (for the Chinese market) and the United States almost 200,000 (for the US market).
- With the new generation, the carmaker hopes to approach the million units sold per year in the world market.
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