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2024 Hyundai Elantra N Review – Tightening Up

The Truth About Cars

Perhaps the 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N we featured isn’t your speed. Well, the 2024 Hyundai Elantra N satisfies all those requirements, and if you don’t want an automatic transmission, you don’t have to have one. Full disclosure: Hyundai flew me to Monterey/Carmel, California and fed and housed me for two nights. No paddles for you!

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Consumer Reports Lists Least/Most Expensive Car Brands to Maintain

The Truth About Cars

This included oil changes and necessary repairs, but would exclude everything covered under recalls or warranty. Lincoln was close behind them at $5,040 over 10 years and followed (listed lowest price to highest) by Ford, Chevrolet, Hyundai, Nissan, Mazda, Honda, and Kia.

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Hybrid Sales Falter in S. Korea while SUV Sales Climb

Green Car Congress

February sales included: 266 units of Hyundai’s Avante hybrid, just more than half of the 526 sold in January. “The relatively high price tags of the models and the recent recalls of Toyota’s hybrid cars seem to be negatively affecting consumer sentiment toward the new type of vehicles.”

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Why Tesla competitors will need more than affordability to take EV pioneer’s crown

Teslarati

.” But there’s a reason the 2023 Nissan Versa, which is priced at $15,730, isn’t the most popular car in the world: consumers want more than a nice, low price tag. Even the Model X managed to outsell things like the Kia Niro, the Hyundai Ioniq, and the Volkswagen ID.4, But it goes much further than that.

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2023 Toyota Corolla Hybrid Review – Sensible Shoes

The Truth About Cars

And that was before I compared the car to its rivals, such as the usually solid Honda Civic or the ever-improving Hyundai Elantra. That took the $26,600 price tag and, along with destination fees, bumped it to $29,231. * Toyota has no press shots of that trim available and I didn’t shoot this particular car for reasons I don’t recall.

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MIT Professor’s IoT Sensors Make Roads Safer

Cars That Think

“I told him we should start a research project that takes sensors that we both know a lot about, attach them to cars, measure what’s happening, and then try to understand the data,” Balakrishnan recalls. CMT recently partnered with Hyundai to offer its customers real-time roadside assistance and repair services.

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