Hyundai Portico (PO) interior; Hyundai FS
More and more spy photos of the upcoming Hyundai Portico crossover have been popping up all over the web in the past week. As usual, the car is covered with heavy camouflage, so seeing the real exterior design, is something that its forbidden for now.
How about the interior? It remained a well kept secret, until today. Spy photographers have managed take a few images of Porticos interior and Leftlane published them in its latest series of spy shots.
Hyundai has been developing the Portico under the PO codename. This exciting crossover vehicle will be ready to hit the dealers in the second half of next year. It was reported that Portico is going to be built in Hyundais American plant in Alabama, and we can add that the estimated production will be close to 100.000 units.
The 2010 Portico will also be exported to Europe and other countries around the world, where it will replace the 7-seat Trajet. Hyundai expects to sell 30,000 units in USA and 70,000 units overseas.
But the Portico is not the only crossover Hyundai has been developing. We got an inside information that Hyundai engineers are working on a smaller CUV, codenamed FS, and it should be released early in 2010. At the moment, there are no spy shots available as the vehicle is still in the early stage of development. The FS will reportedly get many styling cues from HED-2 concept car that Hyundai introduced at the 2006 Geneva Motor show. [Source: Leftlane]
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August 19th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Hi! Do you guys have an email address? Sometimes I wanna give you guys a heads up for some stuff but I never know your contact details!
Thanks for keeping the site up tho!
August 19th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Maybe Portico will be next generation of Santa Fe. SUVs aren´t sold well as carmakers want.
August 19th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Nope, the Portico is a new model, that shares its platform with Santa Fe, but will not be used as a replacement model.
The Santa Fe might not sell in record numbers on US market, but its overall sales around the world is very good. Especially in Europe, where it was very well accepted accepted by consumers. But there is a lot of competition in its segment right now and consumers are moving to smaller SUVs/CUVs so this might take some customers away from Hyundai. But there will always be a lot of competition in the automotive market and what Hyundai needs is to offer better vehicles to win the new and repeat customers.
August 20th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
(Sorry … I put this comment under the wrong image earlier!!)
Hey .. Didn’t know how else to contact you - but - PLEASE remove all of our COPYRIGHTED “spy” images from your site!!! This is a very serious issue and I would appreciate your prompt attention to this matter. Thank you. If you would like to find out about one-time publishing fees - feel free to contact me at the e-mail address I listed. Thank you.
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August 21st, 2008 at 6:33 pm
I will certainly remove all of the images, and would like to know how to purchase the images from you!