Luxury Cars
The production version will appear at the , scheduled for next September, with the first version to be a three-door, four-seater model with a range of petrol and diesel engines. The Up family will expand in the future to include a five-door version and a fully electric, battery-powered model in 2013 – the same year the electric Golf and Jetta are expected to appear.
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Although it looks like a regular Santa Fe with a fancy paint job and a glass roof, this SUV is Hyundai’s technological showcase. Inside, it harbors a proprietary parallel-hybrid drive system that will be the foundation for all future Hyundai hybrids.
Sometimes, when you probe too deeply into his Corvettes, Zora Arkus-Duntov goes opaque. It happens when you question an engineering change that perhaps required a measure of political finesse — and compromise — with the cost accountants. Or when you encounter some detail that he feels strongly about but is afraid the majority will misunderstand. Then Duntov pulls down the shade and becomes inscrutable.
South Bend, IN, April 30—
"Go West, young man!"
Horace Greeley said it in the 19th century, an exhortation to young men to climb aboard their covered wagons and seek their fortunes in frontier America.
But Brock Yates said it just this morning at Tire Rack headquarters in suburban South Bend, as he outlined the route for the 21st annual One Lap of America.