Hyundai ix35

The Hyundai ix35 is a compact SUV that was the official successor and also the predecessor of the Tucson in most markets. It follows the numeric naming begun with the i30 and was shown at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show with the fluidic sculpture design that also appears on the sixth-generation Sonata and the i40, with sales from March 2010; Germany registered 10,703 in 2010. In South Korea it was sold as the Tucson ix, and Egypt Ghabbour Group built a Tucson ix35. The European car came from Kia Motors Slovakia in Zilina from September 2009 and from the Czech plant in Nosovice from July 2011. It had front or all-wheel drive, petrol engines of 1.6 and 2.0 litres, 2.0 litre common rail diesels of 136 and 184 PS and a 1.7 litre diesel, plus a 2.4 litre petrol in North America. A hydrogen ix35 Fuel Cell was offered from 2013 to 2018, a facelift came in September 2013, and Beijing Hyundai built the ix35 in China from 2010 to 2018.