Monday, May 14, 2007

Hyundai shows i30 estate




Also showing off a new compact estate is Hyundai, which has released the fist details of its new i30 estate, based on its forthcoming new Focus rival hatchback.

Like the hatchback, it has been designed at Hyundai's European design office in Frankfurt, and will make its official global debut at the Frankfurt motor show later this year.

It gets a longer wheelbase than the i30 hatch (by 90mm) and overall it stretches by 230mm. And being as the hatchback is hardly what you'd call short of space, this promises to be a seriously practical car.

We'll see the first i30 hatches arriving in Ireland by the end of the summer, and the estate shouldn't be far behind.

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