Wheelers Blog & News tagged "Hyundai"

First off, let’s establish some basic definitions:     What’s an electric car?  To keep it simple, an electric car runs entirely on batteries and needs to be charged up every now and then- No diesel or fuel is involved whatsoever.    *Just a little something you’d like to know, we now have a Medco electric car charging station in Downtown Beirut that’s suitable for all car models and brands. It’s fast charging and it’s supposed to charge e-vehicles in about 20 minutes- that’s a...

So we kind of saw this one coming since Hyundai has already teased a preview of this model through the RN30 concept revealed in the Paris motor show last September… Well, minus all the bodywork of course.   Hyundai aims to enter the hot hatch market this year with this model hoping to compete with the Ford Focus and the Volkswagen Golf. It is set to go on sale in Europe in the second half of March 2017 (which is any day now).   The new body and facelift are not too dramatic, this model...

Let’s face it. Speeding is dangerous. If you’re a fan of speed, go on a track. If you’re on the track it doesn’t mean you’re safe, but you certainly are speeding legally. Now, if you’re a professional driver, on a legalized track, and a tractor, yes a tractor comes your way; then you have no luck at all. Hyundai driver, Thierry Neuville survived from a terrible accident that was going to either end his career or end his life. Out of nowhere, in the middle of the rally, a tractor came out...

  Hyundai has set a new Guinness World Record for “largest tire track image” in their latest “A Message to Space” campaign. The South Korean company used 11 Genesis sedans to draw an image big enough to be seen from space; the image was a message from an astronauts’s daughter to her father who spends most of his time away from home, in the International Space Station.   The message, which was written on the Delamar Dry Lake in Nevada, covered 5.5 square kilometers – making it more than...