The Hyundai i10 is a 5-door hatchback from Hyundai, built from 2007, in the decade of stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids. Under the bonnet: Petrol engine. Thomas Bürkle drew it.
The background
The Hyundai i10 is a city car produced by the South Korean manufacturer Hyundai since 2007. It replaced the Hyundai Atos in the model line-up, and was initially available only as a five-door hatchback body style. The third generation i10 was unveiled in India on 7 August 2019 and launched on 20 August 2019, offered in 10 variants across petrol and diesel engines as well as manual and automatic transmissions. There are also sedan derivatives, the Hyundai Xcent and the Hyundai Aura.
The engineering
Power comes from Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 925 -. It shifts through a 5-speed Manual transmission / manual / 4-speed Automatic transmission / automatic. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2380 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Hyundai Atos; assembly was at Chennai. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Volkswagen Tiguan, the Nissan GT-R, the Nissan Qashqai — show what else the money bought that year. Its Hyundai stablemates include the Hyundai Accent WRC and the Hyundai Accent.