Hyundai Tiburon?, More like... Hyundai Copycat Options

[Cutrara]

Celica GT-FOUR



Hyundai Tiburon


They totally jacked our front end...

[darksecret]

Hyundai designed the newest Tiburon, the Korean automakers are still somewhat in there adolecence, Hyundai is pulling a Mitsubishi, partially because D-C owns I think 26%-37% of the company (I can't remember I quit working for Hyundai a year ago) same as Hyundai owns some of Kia (6%, I think). The new Tiburon shares a similar 2.7 Litre V6 engine that is in the Stratus R/T, and actually has some references to Mitsubishi in their design (overall, not just Tiburon). Saleeka is right about the Ferrari insperation though. Hyundai did just close the gap on Japanese automakers by building the new US factory.

[BlackSTX]

The new Tiburon shares a similar 2.7 Litre V6 engine that is in the Stratus R/T, and actually has some references to Mitsubishi in their design (overall, not just Tiburon). [right][snapback]288070[/snapback][/right]

I'm pretty sure the Stratus R/T shares a 3.0 with Mitsubishi. Dodge and Mitsubishi have been platform sharing since the 80's starting with the mirage/colt, laser/talon/eclipses, eclipse/galant/avenger/sebring, and now the eclipse/stratus/sebrings. The Avenger had a different engine than the Eclipse turbos at the time, but I think the new Stratus shares engines with the Eclipse. Wait, just looked it up, the coupe shares the 3.0 with the Eclipse, and the four-door has a 2.7. I don't know where that engine comes from though.