Hyundai Excel

The Hyundai Excel was a car produced by Hyundai Motor Company from 1985 to 1999 and was the first front-wheel-drive car made by the South Korean manufacturer. It replaced the rear-wheel-drive Hyundai Pony. It was based on the second generation of the Mitsubishi Mirage but received its own sheet metal designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro, and it was sold as a three- or five-door hatchback and as a four-door sedan with a four-cylinder engine. The Excel was the first Hyundai exported to the United States, where Mitsubishi also sold it from spring 1987 as the Precis. It carried other names in other markets, including Pony Excel for the Korean hatchback and Presto for the sedan, and it was replaced by the Hyundai Accent in 1994 after the planned Elantra replacement slipped.