AOL has an excellent first drive of the 2011 Hyundai Sonata. The car has been getting rave reviews generally, as expected. But this article is good journalism to boot. Particularly, in the section titled The audacity of limiting choice, Reilly Brennan analyses the wisdom of doing away with a V6 engine option, in the current US market.

There's an uncompromisingly negative review of the Hyundai i20 1.2 in today's Guardian (via www.hyundaibuzz.com). While its i10 and i30 sisters have mainly broken past the lingering doubts in European minds over Korean cars, the i20 still gets a decidedly mixed bag of reviews.

A Korean TV commercial shows the new Hyundai ix35 SUV crossover. To me this seems like the most exciting new car from Hyundai yet.

4 days
1545 miles
30 hours of driving
15 cups of coffee
200 liters of petrol
39.8 mpg

Having recently bought a spanking new Hyundai i20, I was initially excited by the claimed fuel consumption figures, then duly disappointed that my own real-world results seemed pretty far off. But then I found out a few things about how the official figures are measured.