For all the gearheads out there, Auffenberg Hyundai has the details on the Hyundai Veloster’s turbochargers! Twin-scroll turbocharger designs have two exhaust gas inlets divided by split walls inside the turbine housing, with both gas passages controlled by a waste-gate. A twin-scroll turbo recovers even more energy from the exhaust than a single-scroll turbocharger, thanks [...]
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Hyundai says Veloster Turbo’s unique design takes inspiration from a custom high-performance sport bike. One of the most popular sport bike upgrades is to modify the exhaust. Hyundai designers removed the Veloster’s trapezoidal center exhaust and replaced it with two larger free flowing circular pipes. These new pipes and the new intake manifold also allowed [...]
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Kia has announced its best ever annual sales for the year ending in 2012. Kia reports that the Optima led the brand’s sales, selling more than 150,000 units. From Kia: “Kia Motors America (KMA), which previously announced it had surpassed its best-ever full-year sales total in less than 11 months, today reported all-time record sales [...]
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The Kia Sorento and the Kia Sportage have claimed top honors on Strategic Vision’s Total Value Index® (TVI). From Kia: “This week, the brand’s two CUVs received a different type of recognition when Strategic Vision revealed that new car buyers identified the 2013 Sorento and 2013 Sportage as the number one ranked vehicles in Total Value in [...]
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AOL Autos has named the Ford Fusion as its Car of the Year! Ford Media reports: “The 2013 Ford Fusion continues to earn industry kudos. AOL Autos has awarded its second annual Car of the Year honors to the all-new car. AOL reports Fusion is boldly redesigned to not only raise the bar, but to meet [...]
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It’s been a banner year for carmakers in the US, and Hyundai is no exception. Hyundai has announced that both the Elantra and Sonata broke annual sales records in 2012: “Hyundai’s benchmark-setting mid-size Sonata broke its all-time yearly sales record this week, surpassing the 225,961 sales it logged in its record-setting performance last year. Sonata [...]
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