Hyundai Set to Become Sixth Biggest Automaker in the U.S. In 2011

In the realm of U.S. automotive sales, 8% is a magic number. When an automaker hits 8%, they know they’ve become one of the big guns. Ford, Chevrolet, Toyota, Honda, Dodge and Nissan have all made it, and 2011 is expected to be Hyundai’s year.

So sayeth market research firm Polk, and I’m tempted to agree. Hyundai and its partner-brand / internal rival Kia have steadily been evolving into truly world-class carmakers. They’re keenly priced, inoffensive to look at and comprehensively covered quality-wise – everything the vast majority of new car buyers want in this day and age.

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2011 Hyundai Equus photos

The 2011 Hyundai Equus is picking a battle with the most fit official-class sedans in the globe, but would it be able to quite topple the Lexus LS, BMW 7-Series and Mercedes-Benz S-Class from their grandiose roosts?
2011 Hyundai Equus


2011 Hyundai Equus


2011 Hyundai Equus


2011 Hyundai Equus


2011 Hyundai Equus


2011 Hyundai Equus


2011 Hyundai Equus


2011 Hyundai Equus


2011 Hyundai Equus


2011 Hyundai Equus


2011 Hyundai Equus


2011 Hyundai Equus

2011 Hyundai Equus

The response depends expansively on what amount of the retreat has attacked your 401(k). Since you're dribbling over a German, but throbbing seriously for some sort of financial help, the Equus transports a knockout slam on those auto partialities and gives you the front you ought to purchase a Hyundai alternately.

The math is effortless. Hyundai's revamped Equus moves the same number of folks, spits out practically indistinguishable efficiency numbers, and hustles itself in about as swiftly as the similar forms of the proposed time-regarded sedans. What it doesn't do is destroy your Quicken record entirely as seriously, inasmuch as its base cost of $58,000 is what you'd pay in above all cases, for the moderate size sedans from those marks. BMW's 7-Series begins from $82,500 for an aggressively powered 750i; the Mercedes-Benz S550 soars even higher at $91,600.

New Hyundai Equus Limo Spotted in Dubai

Either a Hyundai executive in Dubai received an early example of the Korean firm's all-new flagship limo that was revealed in Korea in mid-February, or the company plans to include the United Arab Emirates among the countries that will receive the new Equus sedan as these pictures from the folks over at "Gulf4Cars" suggest. According to an earlier statement from the company, there are no plans to export the Equus, which is heavily based on the rear-wheel drive Genesis sedan, to North American or European markets.

Via: Gulf4Cars , Thanks for the tip Ashur!

Hyundai's Equus Flagship Sedan Launched in Korea, could make it to the U.S.

What you're seeing here is the all-new Equus, Hyundai's Mercedes-Benz S-Class-sized flagship luxury sedan that was unveiled today in Korea. Not surprisingly, the actual production model features a much less dramatic design than what we were promised by the teaser sketches released by Hyundai earlier this year. While the outgoing model used a front-wheel drive architecture, the new Equus is based on a modified version of the rear-wheel drive Genesis platform with power coming from the same 3.8-liter Lambda V6 and 4.6-liter Tau V8 engines.

In the second half of the year, Hyundai will also introduce a long-wheelbase version of the new Equus equipped with a 5.0-liter variant of the Tau V8.

Compared to its Asian-market predecessor, the 2010 Equus is longer, wider and taller measuring 5,160mm in length, 1,900mm in width and 1,495mm in height. Technological highlights include a second-generation Vehicle Stability Management System (VSM2), a Lane Departure Warning System (LDWS) that employs a vision sensor to monitor traffic lane markers and a Pre-Safety Seatbelt System which on detecting an imminent front-end collision, automatically reels-in the safety belts.

Even though Hyundai has officially announced that there are currently no plans to export the 2010 Equus to the North American or European markets, Korean news outlet Ohmynews claims that the Equus will be launched in the States, most likely as the 'Genesis Prestige'.

Via: Worldcarfans