Hyundai Trajet

This is the catalogue record of the Hyundai Trajet, 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 1999. 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 Trajet 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 Škoda Auto Škoda Fabia, the Toyota Toyota Yaris, the SEAT SEAT León — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Hyundai Trajet reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 2.0 L Hyundai Sirius engine#G4JP / Sirius II Straight-four engine / I4 / 2.0 L Hyundai Beta engine#G4GC / Beta II I4 / 2.7 L Hyundai Delta engine#G6BA / D; drive goes through 5 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 Trajet sits alongside the Hyundai Accent WRC, the Hyundai Accent, the Hyundai Aslan, the Hyundai Atos. The record names the Hyundai Santamo as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Assembly is recorded at South Korea: Ulsan / 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.

Why concepts and prototypes are in the library

Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.

From catalogue to ownership

The catalogue records what the Hyundai Trajet 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.