Outside of the United States, it
offers models like the Hyundai i10. An A-segment city car, the Hyundai i10 was
introduced in 2007 and replaced with the second-generation model in 2013. By
that schedule, the third iteration should be hitting the streets sometime next
year.
That means that the Korean automaker must already be
hard at work on the new model, and here it is – or here they are, we should
say, because our spies at CarPix have spotted two prototypes out parked in the
snow.
Heavily camouflaged as they are, there's little to
be gleaned from these spy shots beyond their essential existence. Those holes
in the front-end camo suggest a sort of Fiat 500 look, but that doesn't
necessarily speak to the sheetmetal underneath.
And Hyundai hasn't been known to go the retro route very much.
What we can expect at this early stage is that the
new i10 will share much with its corporate cousin, the Kia Picanto. That model
was just replaced last year, and we can anticipate most of the same mechanical
bits underneath – including the 1.0-liter inline-three and 1.2-liter
inline-four engines, mated as they are to a five-speed manual or four-speed
automatic.
Cr : Carscoops