'Hyundai-Kia is becoming a global car superpower to match Toyota and VW'

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    Brydo
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      Hyundai-Kia have dramatically improved in the last few decades and look set to become one of the motoring giants, says Mike Rutherford
      Japan massively changed the car game between the sixties and the eighties. China will bust out of its 10-million-square-kilometre ‘local’ patch to perform on the world stage proper from 2020 to 2050.

      But if you’re looking for the nation that’s rocked the car design/manufacturing/retail scene more than any other between the nineties and today, look at The Land of Morning Calm: South Korea.

      https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/hyundai/106585/hyundai-kia-is-becoming-a-global-car-superpower-to-match-toyota-and-vw

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    • #74780
      Rico

        the kias are ok, until you look at the ap 😛

        #74781
        Macca

          And the prize for the car with the most horrendous interior goes to ……

          #74967
          Anonymous

            They make the only EV’s worth having right now but are sold out for the year already.

            #74971
            Brydo
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              Shawn the kia e Nero is sold out for 2019 they are having problems with the supply of batteries. I have been told it will be a problem into 2020 meaning it is likely to be mid to late 2020 before any will be available to the UK general public.

              As you know there are few Bev’s on the scheme at present and I think this is likely to be the case for sometime. Most Bev’s and hybrid EV’s are very popular with the public, and there a loads coming to the market this year, however with the popularity comes a problem for motability as the manufacturers don’t need motability nor the huge discounts they ask for.

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              #74973
              Anonymous

                Shawn the kia e Nero is sold out for 2019 they are having problems with the supply of batteries.

                Robert Llewellyn doubts this is the case and they are trying to put the Genie back in the bottle. Car salesmen are being told to talk people out or BEV’s because they need no maintenance. The cars on the scheme right now are very limited range(Smarts can be as little as 50miles in winter) or very expensive old tech(Zoe). But the worse thing is I can not see anything else on the horizon for the scheme. Only hope is the MG in September.

                #74975
                Brydo
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                  Shawn I watched that episode and I’m sure he knows more than me but it makes little sense. I understand they have vast ICE capabilities that are being more and more underused but to stop supplying bevs as some sort of ploy makes no financial sense.

                  It is true that Bevs require next to no maintenance and that’s where a lot of the manufacturers profits come from but if you stop producing Bevs someone else will take your place.

                  There are a few Bev only car companies out there, the biggest being Tesla. Their cheapest model is similar to the cost of the e Nero if Kia stop producing, Tesla and other, mainly Chinese, bev only companies will soon fill the void.

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                  #74977
                  Brydo
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                    The next e nero?

                    https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/106644/new-kia-habaniro-concept-hints-and-next-generation-niro-pictures

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                    #75058
                    Brydo
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                      Shawn here is another point of view on battery supply.

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                      #75073
                      Anonymous

                        It won’t let me Quote you Brydo,maybe its because it contains a video link. I saw that in the middle of the night. Everything in the future nothing now. ?

                        #75164
                        JS
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                          The now uk available hyundai Nexo (even appears on hyundai uk now) will be interesting to see if it makes a difference to H2 availability in the UK,

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