From September starts selling urban SUV of Hyundai, the Hyundai Kona, with a new platform, much electric future and an image that will not leave you indifferent.

simultaneous launch in Seoul and Milan, photo shoot next to the Prado and Almudena Cathedral, name of the resort town of Big Island of Hawaii … who definitely want the Hyundai Kona is a global SUV?

Another small SUV fight to conquer the city, this time from the hand of Hyundai, cousin brother of debutante Kia Stonic. The Hyundai Kona comes to fight directly with Peugeot 2008, Opel Mokka X, Renault Captur, Nissan Juke and other small SUV hits or urban SUV. With their 4.16 meters Opel Mokka will only exceeded (long), but this list of sales in Spain means that the size does not really matter. In fact, the big man ready Opel has a little brother, the Opel Crossland X and this week has unveiled the C3 Aircross Citroën with the same platform as the Opel, with a length calcada the new Hyundai Kona. Kona Hyundai prices will not be known until marketing in Spain will be in September. Korea is the market starting in July, to continue with Europe and America.

According to its makers, the Hyundai Kona, younger brother of the Hyundai Tucson, Santa Fe and Grand Santa Fe, stand out from the competition by interior refinement and its great space and comfort. The Kona also aims to set new benchmarks in connectivity and security measures. These include the assistant frontal collision based on data from the camera and front, can automatically stop if risk of collision radar. The front camera is based on three other systems, Lane Assistant, that of beam and the Detector driver alertness. By the Hyundai rear radar warning Kona offer dead angle and reversing maneuvers, will alert collision risk by passing traffic.

Inside are the screen, floating on the dashboard, which the equipment and markets will 5, 7 or 8 inches, the presence of more head-up display -premiering at Hyundai, where speed information, navigation, audio and lane departure warnings will be shown. It will feature an Infotainment system compatible with Android Auto and Apple carplay, with optional DAB digital radio, rear view through camera.

They seek a clean style inside, but functional, and enough space behind despite the downline body. Rear seat backrests folding feature (1 / 3-2 / 3) to form a flat platform if necessary. The trunk has two load levels.

Hyundai engines Kona

No mechanical stated for each market, but the engines shown in the launch of Hyundai Kona shows an ambition to “large car”. In Europe basic petrol version will be the 1.0 T-GDI we know of other models of Hyundai, i30 as a three-cylinder turbocharged, direct injection of 120 horses and a maximum torque of 172 Nm at 1500 rpm and 4000 rpm. It will go with a six-speed manual transmission and offer an acceleration 0-100 km / h in 12 seconds. The maximum speed of Hyundai Kona 1.0 T-GDI will be 181 km / h.

It is placed above the well known 1.6 T-GDI Family Gamma engine with 177 horses and 265 Nm maximum torque, offered between 1500 rpm and 4500 rpm. This engine will be attached to dual clutch seven-speed 7DCT and allow 0-100 acceleration in 7.7 seconds, with a tip speed of 210 km / h.

Without specifying details of power (in September come into force the new Euro 6c standards and even numbers must be in phase confirmation) if they have reported that the Hyundai will offer the famous Kona 1.6 CRDi Diesel, in the Hyundai i30 it is provided with 95 and 110 hp, and consumption (approved) about 4 liters.

an engine will also be offered in petrol Atkinson 2.0 of 149 hp, whose operating cycle (or Diesel or Otto) boasts low fuel consumption and reduced emissions. Coupled to a six-speed automatic transmission, promises to Kona accelerate Hyundai O to 100 km / h in 10 seconds and a maximum speed of 194 km / h. The maximum torque is not very high, typical of Atkinson engines, with a value of 179 Nm at 4,500 rpm.

Mechanically Kona will be available with Hyundai 4×2 and also offer AWD 4×4. The rear suspensions change in each case (front McPherson rely on usual), with a torsional axis for front-wheel drive versions and multilink for more sophisticated all-wheel drive Hyundai Kona. They say new platform Kona It is optimized to allow a distance to ground of a SUV own, without requiring the data.

Hyundai aesthetics Kona

Kona safety refer not only to multiple electronic accessories that offer, also in structural rigidity. To do not hesitate to boast of being the Hyundai only manufacturer capable of producing its own steel. Half structure Hyundai Kona (51.8 percent) shall be made using steels very high resistance, hot stamped, for rigidity and lightness. The body rigidity is crucial in order to shocks, also for the absence of noise and for the proper working of the suspensions. This trust unite in Kona bacheo good comfort and great road holding, also relying on a long wheelbase for a small car, 260 cm, just 5 centimeters less than the Hyundai i30.

The key point of the small SUV is the style that the Hyundai Kona has a lot. Responsible for the design of Hyundai Kona are the Belgian Luc Donckerwolke (you know what to spare as the father of a bestseller like the Seat Ibiza you’ve seen during the nine years and we now abandoned) and one of the current stars of car design, the Korean SangYup Lee (if not ring a bell, responsible for the Camaro you saw in Transformers, among others).

Seen from behind, the Hyundai Kona has the air of a Hyundai i30 wagon that had gone through a bodybuilding room and the same feeling of muscle on muscle can be seen on the wheel. Come on, You will like. Best view photos of Kona, to explain the peculiar interpretation of the plastic shrouds in the wheel arches. Ahead is more than the above, with a evolution grill Hyundai, Hyundai to alienate those criticisms that seemed an Audi (reproaches certainly not disliked). You will not be short again comparisons with thin LED daytime running lights at the top, next to the hood, separate from the main opticsYes, reminiscent of Citroën’s latest designs. The Hyundia Kona offers two-tone paint, with black ceiling, as is becoming customary in the small SUV segment.

The black marks all, giving contrast to each of the five double-spoke wheels, the front grille, but also to the air intake for the engine in the upper part of the bumper. If aesthetically conveys strength, better air will feed the engine compartment.

If that were not enough muscular, for release they have teamed up with Marvel to present a special edition Ironman, which seems to provide armor to Hyundai Kona. On wheels 19 inches and a width 40 mm greater, it may be in the showcase Motorstudio Hyundai in Seoul, for a month.

From 2018 also it will be offered electric version of Hyundai Kona, which autonomy not less than 390 km with a recharge. It integrates within the intention to release 31 models electrified Hyundai (between hybrid, plug-in hybrid and fuel cell), 2020. In the first half of 2018 Hyundai release a SUV fuel cell hydrogen occasion of holding of the winter Olympics.

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