Focus group: 2012 Hyundai Veloster

The Focus Group on Autoblog met a year. This unique form of collective evaluation, test and where readers are saying about the latest developments in the market, celebrated its first anniversary on Saturday with a new experience: once selected readers were privileged to be among the first people in Argentina know and handle the new Hyundai Veloster .

This is the compact hatchback coupe, or aesthetics door compact coupe asymmetric, as he calls the Korean brand, which will be released in Argentina in March and April 2012.

Our country will come with the only engine available at the moment for Latin America: 1.6 16v MPi with 130 horses of power, in combination with a manual gearbox or automatic, both with six speeds.

The price has not yet been defined, but estimates could start with a value around $ 30,000 , but all depend on the equipment.

And here lies another of the unique traits of this Focus Group: the configuration of the versions that come to our country have not yet been defined and the people of Hyundai Motor Argentina decided that they were the participants of the event, they assemble your ideal Veloster with a wide range of options, but with a limited budget ( $ 5,000 to label extras).

For this reason, in the opinion of the readers, which is reproduced below, is added a special section with the items of equipment you choose for your virtual Veloster.

In short, this survey are publicly open to all stakeholders, through a special website on which and inform you.

Although the Veloster still is not approved in Argentina, and, therefore, unable to be patented or insurers Focus Group participants had the opportunity to have a brief experience of management within an armed track in facilities Hyundai Motor Argentina, in Olivos.

Before turning to the views of participants, it is good to thank Paula Cavicchioli , Paula Artagaveytia , Ernesto Cavicchioli and Arturo Ramirez , without whose cooperation, trust and hospitality this sixth Focus Group Autoblog would not have been possible.