A marriage of advanced technology and daring design, the all-new Elantra is a wind of change in the automotive industry. Hyundai’s reputation for superior build quality and reliability add the crowning touch for this new leader in the compact class segment.
While subjective, it still might very well be the most attractive car in its class. The new Focus is a strong style rival, however, with its gaping front opening. The Cruze, while handsome enough, doesn’t really pop and the Civic, well, it looks just like Civics have for a very long time.
Perhaps an even more significant transformation comes in the car’s interior (shown here in Limited trim) with a genuinely modern cabin that gives a feel like it doesn’t share a single button with the previous generation car. The same can’t be said about the Civic, or about the Cruze. In the fuel economy wars the Elantra still remains the unrivalled champion. While the Cruze advertises a special 42-mpg Eco model, that’s only for the stick shift and it costs thousands more than the base model. For 2012, automatic transmission versions will get 38-mpg on the highway, an improvement of 2-mpg. The Focus gets the same and both come up one short of the Civic with 39-mpg. The real world difference between these models isn’t all that significant, but Hyundai’s ability to claim that magic 40-mpg number puts the Elantra in a whole new marketing league.
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