Hyundai Philippines Should Convey Inwards The Venue Small-Scale Suv
Hyundai’s smallest crossover to date, the Venue, made an appearance at the Singapore Motor Show end week. It’s a hopeful sign that the Korean carmaker volition select its nigh affordable crossover to to a greater extent than Association of Southeast Asian Nations markets, including (fingers crossed) the Philippines.
The Venue takes on the Hyundai SUV household unit of measurement await alongside its upright cascading grille in addition to composite headlight design. It’s 129 millimeters shorter in addition to thirty millimeters narrower than the Kona, even in addition to thence thank you lot to its design, it has a larger-than-life appearance.
The Singapore marketplace position model, similar its North American counterpart, gets Hyundai’s novel Smartstream Gamma 1.6-liter 4-cylinder engine. The 121-horsepower, 153 Nm of torque engine features Dual Port Fuel Injection (DPFI) in addition to tin hold upwards mated to either a 6-speed manual or Intelligent Variable Transmission (IVT) automatic.
The IVT is basically a CVT gearbox alongside a proprietary shift command strategy that enhances shift answer yesteryear matching a gear ratio alongside engine operating weather condition resulting inward a set out of benefits such equally smoother engine performance in addition to improved fuel efficiency.
For other markets though, the Venue gets a wider breadth of choices from a 83-horsepower 1.2-liter gasoline engine, a 90-horsepower 1.4-liter diesel, to fifty-fifty a 120 horsepower 1.0-liter turbocharged engine. These engines though are mated generally to a manual gearbox, except for the 1.0-liter turbocharged motor which gets a 7-speed dual clutch option.
Inside, the Venue’s decidedly back-to-basics alongside a focus on infinite in addition to utility. Compared to the Kona, the Venue doesn’t surrender much inward price of interior volume: full infinite is simply downwards 76 liters (62 liters for the rider area) compared to its bigger brother. Convenience features include dual USB ports, a 3.5-inh TFT musical instrument cluster, a rear-view camera, leather wrapped steering wheel, in addition to Bluetooth hands-free.
