Over and out for slick i30
The Hyundai i30 Fastback was the last member of the i30 family to be introduced by Hyundai and is the first to be dropped. At least, in the Netherlands.
The previous generation of the i30 that Hyundai presented in 2011 was available as a five-door hatchback, as a station wagon and as a three-door hatchback. The current generation Hyundai i30, which made its debut in Frankfurt in 2016, had to do without a three-door version. Nevertheless, the i30 received a third body variant. The five-door hatchback was joined by the i30 Wagon in early 2017 and the Hyundai i30 Fastback came into play later that year. With that ‘liftback with a sharply sloping roofline’, Hyundai had a completely new variant for the i30. Remarkable; Kia also introduced a more dynamically designed body variant for the current generation of its sister model of the i30 – the Ceed – the Proceed. You can still order the Kia Proceed in the Netherlands, but the curtain has now fallen for the Hyundai i30 Fastback.
In fact, Hyundai has not been supplying the i30 Fastback in the Netherlands since mid-2022. The Dutch importer has tacitly taken the i30 Fastback off the market. Why? For the simple reason that not enough copies were sold. Of the 763 Hyundai i30 registered in 2022, only a few were an i30 Fastback, according to the Dutch importer. Hyundai tells AutoWeek that it has adjusted the offer “[…] because it mainly focuses on models that are low in terms of CO2 emissions and are sold well.” The latter was no longer the case.
The Hyundai i30 family was facelifted in 2020 and the i30 Fastback also benefited from a series of optical and technical adjustments. In its last Dutch phase of life, the i30 Fastback was only available with a 160 hp mild-hybrid 1.5 T-GDI petrol engine. The five-door hatchback and i30 Wagon are also available with a mild hybrid 1.0 T-GDI. Like the i30 Hatchback, the i30 Fastback was also available as a sporty N version. The i30 N Hatchback was available with 250 hp and 275 hp, the i30 N Fastback only came to our country in 275 hp form.
The Hyundai i30 is now more than six years old and it does not seem that the current generation has to last for years. After the disappearance of the current i30, the i30 series is not over. Recently Michael Cole – head of Hyundai Motor Europe – indicated that cars such as the i10, i20 and i30 can simply look forward to a new generation.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl