Hyundai
This is the catalogue record of the Hyundai Atos, one of 150 models Hyundai has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 1997. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Hyundai Atos properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1990s were the decade of refinement — airbags and ABS became universal, Japanese build quality set the world standard, and the modern SUV segment was effectively invented. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Toyota Toyota Prius, the Subaru Subaru Forester, the Ford Ford Focus — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Hyundai Atos reads like this: the record lists its engine as 0.8 L Hyundai Epsilon engine#G4HA / Epsilon G4HA Straight-four engine / I4 (Petrol engine / petrol) / 1.0 L Hyundai Epsilon engine#G4HC / Epsilon G4HC I4 (petrol) / 1.1 L Hyundai E; kerb weight is recorded at 845 kg; drive goes through 5-speed Manual transmission / manual / 4-speed automatic; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Hyundai's own catalogue the Hyundai Atos sits alongside the Hyundai Accent WRC, the Hyundai Accent, the Hyundai Aslan, the Hyundai Aura. The record names the successor = Hyundai Eon / Hyundai i10 (for Hyundai Atos) / Kia Picanto (for Kia Visto) as its predecessor and the Hyundai Eon / Hyundai i10 (for Hyundai Atos) / Kia Picanto (for Kia Visto) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to class = City car (A). Assembly is recorded at South Korea: Ulsan / India: Chennai (Hyundai Motor India Limited / Hyundai India) / Malaysia: Kulim (Inokom) / Mexico: Campeche (Bering Company) / Egypt: Cairo (Ghabbour Group) / P.
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