Comments on: 2009 Hyundai Grandeur Review

By: Baddass

Baddass — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:51:42 +0000

Get me a bucket. Some people in Australia like their car to be good looking and good to drive, hence the massive sales of the VE Commodore and FG Falcon. The Grandeur falls down on both accounts.

By: Baddass

Baddass — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:45:30 +0000

Yeah, who’s going to break into your car at 45km/h?!

By: vikea

vikea — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:58:43 +0000

you are all(with a few exeption) JOKES.

By: Neeb

Neeb — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:49:03 +0000

According to the sixth paragraph of the report below, Japan has no tariffs on cars.

http://edition.cnn.com/2002/BUSINESS/asia/09/12/japan.cars/index.html

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 06:17:02 +0000

Hello. As far as I know, Japan does have tariffs on foreign vehicles unless a free trade agreement has been made between the two countries which I am not aware of. In this case however, I’m quite sure Japan does tax Korean cars because in return Korea taxes Japanese cars quite heavily.

By: ralph

ralph — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:35:49 +0000

> Due to taxes on imported cars, Korean cars like Hyundai
> are priced around the same as Honda and Toyota.

Care to elaborate on this? I thought Japan didn’t have any tariffs (taxes) on imported vehicles.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:47:31 +0000

Just to reply to Tack’s comment on Hyundai’s failure in Japanese market…
Generally speaking, Japanese cars are better than Korean cars. However in markets around the world, because Korean cars are cheaper than Japanese cars, this makes them competitive. However in Japanese domestic market, due to no tax on Japanese cars, Japanese cars are the cheapest to buy for ordinary Japanese. Due to taxes on imported cars, Korean cars like Hyundai are priced around the same as Honda and Toyota. That’s the reason for Hyundai’s failure there. On the other hand, when the Korean companies first put their hands on automotive industry, they borrowed and bought outdated Japanese engines before they could develop their own. Because of this, Koreans have a lot of respect for japanese cars. You wouldn’t believe how expensive Toyota Camry and Honda Accord are there!!! Around the same price as the BMW 3 series. But they sell well.
So, context of market plays more important role than the car itself.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:36:36 +0000

Australian market is one of the most conservative to have any new openings in a large car segment. To give us an idea, Grandeur has been doing quite well in US. The buyers of Grandeur seem to know what they want; stylish design in both exterior and interior, quiet engine and smooth ride. This car is surprisingly quick (7.2 sec to 100km/h) and the general opinion in the us among critics is that this is better car than Toyota Aurion but not Lexus ES(unsurprisingly). To be successful in Australia though, I think Hyundai needs to improve its performance image overall. Perhaps a perfomance version in sonata and grandeur would siginificantly improve the image. They’re quite capable of this as seen in Genesis in US. Now that car’s going to put a lot of overpriced cars to shame.

By: Sharyn

Sharyn — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:06:34 +0000

We bought a 2000 Grandeur brand new and we loved it so much we brought it back to NZ with us. Yes we still drive it and it has proved itself very reliable and still drives very smoothly. We did a lot of long distance Aussie trips in it and we always commented after driving 7-8 hours that we could easily do another 6 hrs. I’m disappointed with the exterior styling of this latest model. IMO the earlier grandeur models were great looking cars with a Jaguar-esque look to them. This model looks pretty nondescript. I guess we’d still consider a grandeur again as we’ve really enjoyed the model we have as long as the interior and engine was also the same quality of what we got the first time round.

By: Baji

Baji — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:59:51 +0000

The grandeur is actually quite a nice car, even though it looks a bit dated. The build quality i think is a step up from the maxima, aurion, falcon and commodore. For the price, you have just as many features if not more than its competitors. But its just a pity that the looks are quite old and dated. The interior quality may be good, but the design falls short of interesting. The grandeur is a very underated car though. But like many have said, for the money, there are a lot more attractive options out there. I say ditch the grandeur and bring on the Genesis.