
Sonata
Hyundai
Medium/high class three-volume sedan
Giugiaro was commissioned to design the external image of a medium/high class three-volume saloon, offering honest performance and supremely competitive export prices.
BRAND: Hyundai
MODEL: Sonata
YEAR: 1988
BODY TYPE: Sedan
POWER SUPPLY: Combustion
CATEGORY: Production car
DESIGNER: Giorgetto Giugiaro
Sonata is a car with a spare line, that lent an air of class and modernity to the fledgling Seul-based company. The body had a rounded front, with a bonnet which wrapped round the radiator grille and light clusters, integrating bumper and belt line. The flush line of the doors and roof made for greater aerodynamic efficiency and the windscreen wiper nestled niftily into the windscreen rake. The tail was short and high in proportion to the rest of the car and the rear light clusters were laid out horizontally.