The Hyundai i40 is a 5-door estate/wagon / 4-door sedan/saloon from Hyundai, built from 2011 to 2019, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Under the bonnet: Petrol engine. Thomas Bürkle drew it.
How it came about
The Hyundai i40 (Korean: 현대 아이포티) is a large family car designed primarily for the European market by the South Korean manufacturer Hyundai between 2011 and 2019. Sharing its platform with the Hyundai Sonata, the i40 sedan was unveiled at the 2011 Barcelona Motor Show.
The hardware
Power comes from Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 1372 -. It shifts through a 6-speed manual transmission / manual / 6-speed automatic transmission / automatic / 7-speed Dual-clutch transmission / DCT. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2770 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Hyundai Sonata (Europe); assembly was at Ulsan. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Lamborghini Aventador, the Peugeot 208, the Lexus LFA — show what else the money bought that year. Its Hyundai stablemates include the Hyundai Accent WRC and the Hyundai Accent.