Hyundai i20

This is the catalogue record of the Hyundai i20, 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 2008. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Hyundai i20 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. 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 Nissan Nissan 370Z, the Tesla Tesla Roadster, the Nissan Nissan GT-R — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Hyundai i20 reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1.2 L Hyundai Kappa engine / Kappa Straight-four engine / I4 CVVT DOHC Multi-valve#Four valves / 16v / 1.25 L Hyundai Kappa engine / Kappa I4 CVVT DOHC Mu; kerb weight is recorded at successor = Hyundai Accent#RB / Hyundai Accent (RB) hatchback (Australia) / Hyundai Grand Avega (Indonesia); drive goes through 5-speed manual / 6-speed 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.

Its place in the Hyundai story

Within Hyundai's own catalogue the Hyundai i20 sits alongside the Hyundai Accent WRC, the Hyundai Accent, the Hyundai Aslan, the Hyundai Atos. The record names the Hyundai Getz / Hyundai Accent hatchback as its predecessor and the Hyundai Accent#RB / Hyundai Accent (RB) hatchback (Australia) / Hyundai Grand Avega (Indonesia) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Thomas Bürkle. Assembly is recorded at Plainlist| / Turkey: İzmit (HAOS) / India: Chennai (HMIL) / Indonesia: Bekasi ( ).

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

The catalogue records what the Hyundai i20 was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.