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Hyundai increasing European production to 500,000 a year

Hyundai are upping production in Europe to 500,000 per annum There’s an awful lot of sense in car makers designing and building cars for the markets they serve locally, and it’s a route Hyundai has followed in Europe, where the majority of their sales are of European built models, not imports. With Hyundai sales still growing despite the European car market meltdown, Hyundai are increasing capacity in Europe to keep up with demand with further investment in their plant in Ízmit, Turkey. Originally, the Ízmit plant produced just 60,000 cars a year, but in 2007 that was increased to 125,000 and now it is being increased to 200,000 so the new i10 can be built there as well as the latest i20.

Mitsubishi ASX compact SUV (2010) first pictures

By Tim Pollard First Official Pictures 19 January 2010 08:18 Mitsubishi Motors Corporation will show its new ASX compact crossover at the 2010 Geneva motor show on 2 March.It's the new Euro version of the Japanese-market RVR, landing in showrooms in the east from February 2010. It's a five-seater and will arrive in Europe in late spring 2010.Another Mitsubishi SUV!Yes, they have a burgeoning range, if you're being polite. A wide and confusing one if you're feeling critical.

SEAT Leon X-Perience price & spec – costs from £24,385

The ‘Allroad’ SEAt Leon X-Perience goes on sale. SEAT hasn’t got round to building its first SUV, but the new SEAT Leon X-Perience is a half-way step – for SEAT and its customers – with added butchness and off-road pretensions in a high-riding estate car. SEAT has gone the usual ‘Allroad’ route for the X-Perience by fitting new bumpers, adding skid plates, extra plastic cladding and pumping up the ride height to give an estate that actually looks quite alright and, with 4WD and diff locks, can actually walk some of the walk.