Hyundai does not build many cars like the Hyundai Excel: a 3-door hatchback / 5-door hatchback / 4-door sedan with 1.3 , built from 1985 to 1999 in the age of turbocharging and the first electronic engine management. Its designer of record is Giorgetto Giugiaro at Italdesign.
The background
The Hyundai Excel (Korean: 현대 엑셀), also known as the Hyundai Pony, Hyundai Pony Excel, Hyundai Presto, Mitsubishi Precis, and Hyundai X2, is an automobile which was produced by Hyundai Motor Company from 1985 to 1999. It was the first front-wheel drive car produced by the South Korean manufacturer. The Excel range replaced the rear-wheel-drive Hyundai Pony.
The engineering
Under the skin sits 1.3 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. The gearbox is a 4-speed manual / 5-speed manual / 3-speed automatic. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 93.7 in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Where it sits in Hyundai's history is not in doubt: the Hyundai Pony came before it; the Hyundai Accent followed it; it was built at Ulsan, South Korea. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the SEAT Ibiza, the Toyota MR2, the Ferrari Testarossa. Its Hyundai stablemates include the Hyundai Accent WRC and the Hyundai Accent.
The money
There is no federal ownership record for the Hyundai Excel — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.