With a bold 3-door design it's hard to ignore Hyundai's Veloster. However, since the shape is now two years old, people are doing just that, so the Koreans got their marketing teams to make it cool once more.
The successor to the Tiburon is by no means a performance benchmark, but with a 1.6-liter 138-hp engine and prices from about $18,000, it's quite attractive. Hyundai's latest ad says that unlike other cars which are only fun to drive, the Veloster is also fun to start, fun to listen to, fun to play with and still easy on the wallet.
If that's not impressive enough, toy an always tell your friends the color you chose is called "Vitamin C". With numerous appearances in video games and a partnership with X Games pro driver Rhys Millen, Hyundai has ensured young people's attention is firmly fixated on this 3-door hatchback.
Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida. Full profile
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