2008 Hyundai i30 –aka Arnejs or FD, leaks on the net!

Ouch, this must of hurt… See, Hyundai was planning an exclusive press presentation of its European developed i30 compact hatch on the 5th of March at the Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues at Geneva –a day before the Geneva Show press opening. Well now it won’t be much of an exclusive surprise, no thanks to a watchful visitor at the Autoscoop forum who seems to have “scooped” these pics off an Italian car site which posted them up by mistake.

Unfortunately we don’t have any information on the i30 apart from the fact that it's based on the all-new Kia Cee’d and that it will carry on the same engine range that includes 3 petrol motors (1.4 109Hp, 1.6 122Hp & 2.0 143Hp) and 3 diesels (1.6CRDi 90 Hp & 115Hp, 2.0 CRDi 140Hp). As for its design, well, it looks more like a rebadged and remasked Kia Cee’d than a production version of the 2006 Arnejs Concept. -Continued: Click “Read More…” below to see the other images

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Hyundai: "We’re not interested in Chrysler"

This past weekend we saw several reports announcing Hyundai’s interest in joining possible bidders for the Chrysler Group. Hyundai’s response was immediate. The Korean Group’s spokesperson Jake Jang told Associated Press today, "We are not considering to buy Chrysler because our hands are full", putting all rumours to an end. To be honest I found Hyundai’s interest too far fetched.

But Hyundai isn’t the only Group who’s been reported to be interested in Chrysler. GM is another hypothetical candidate. Yes GM, the firm that has a million or so problems to solve on its own wants to buy Chrysler, a competitive company that’s in the same or probably even worse situation… Apart from the fact that there’s no logic whatsoever for a move of this scale, GM couldn’t even come to an understanding with the Renault-Nissan Group let alone with Chrysler.

Talking about the Renault-Nissan Group, and if and I repeat "if", DaimlerChrysler is seriously searching for someone to “dump” Chrysler and it’s not some sort of tactic to push forward a "hands-down" restructuring plan, I’d say that a scenario concerning an alliance between the American and French-Japanese Groups sounds quiet sane to me. What do you think?

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