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But, clearly, the Veloster is coming up fast. The new Hyundai coupe is into final testing with showroom-ready cars and much of its camouflage removed to check such important details as cooling and wind noise.
The Veloster has already been to Australia once, for the Sydney Motor Show, and it is expected to be on sale early in 2012. "We need to have an image car in the range and it could provide incremental sales," admits Hyundai's Australian marketing boss, Oliver Mann.
The test car caught by Carparazzi is believed to have either a 1.6- litre Gamma engine, similar to the one in the latest i20 and just installed to break the $20,000 price barrier with the i30, or a larger 2-litre Theta powerplant. And there could be turbos...
The Veloster uses the same mechanical platform as the Elantra but it is likely to be comprehensively tweaked, if only to avoid the wobbly front-end response from the latest Hyundai i45.
But Mann refuses to comment on the car. "We haven't even got as far as saying that Veloster is coming to Australia," he says.
"Yes, there is a car. But I would almost lump it in with all the other opportunites. It's in consideration, but there needs to be a business case."
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