Sub-£20k price tag for new Hyundai i40
Hyundai has announced the pricing and specifications of the heavily facelifted i40, which will arrive in showrooms later this year.
Prices for the saloon will start from £19,600, while the Tourer estate will command a £1,250 premium, coming in at £20,850.
For that money, customers will get a basic S model, which comes with an impressive standard specification including 16in alloys, air conditioning, a multi-function steering wheel, Bluetooth and automatic headlights.
Sitting above the S is the £21,600 SE Nav, which adds satellite navigation, climate control, heated front seats, a reversing camera and a seven-speaker audio system to the S specification. Upgrading further to SE Nav Business (£23,100) will provide keyless go and a memory function for the driver’s seat.
At the top of the range is the Premium model, which costs £25,600 and includes 18in alloys, a panoramic sunroof, lane departure warning and a ‘super vision’ instrument cluster with an LCD colour display.
As standard, the i40 will come with a 1.7-litre diesel engine producing 113bhp and 110g/km CO2 emissions, but an extra £800 outlay will buy the more powerful 139bhp version of the same engine. It’s only slightly less economical, spewing 114g of CO2 from the exhaust pipe every kilometre, so road tax will be just as cheap and it falls into the same 20% company car tax bracket.
Opting for the double-clutch automatic gearbox (available as a £1,900 extra on all but the entry-level S), however, will have a profound effect on the emissions, upping them to 129g/km. That’s enough to put company car tax up to 23% and road tax up to £110 a year.
Hyundai is taking orders for the new i40 now.