Hyundai Accent
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8 model years with exact configuration records. Latest available year: 2022, with 3 listed configurations.
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General nameplate overview
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The Hyundai Accent is Hyundai's subcompact, front-wheel-drive entry model, sold in the United States since the 1995 model year as the replacement for the Excel. The name is an acronym for "Advanced Compact Car of Epoch-making New Technology," and the same basic car has been sold as the Verna across most of Asia and as the Solaris in Russia. Through six generations it has always been the cheapest car in Hyundai's American showroom, squaring off against the Honda Fit, Ford Fiesta, Nissan Versa, Chevrolet Sonic and its corporate cousin, the Kia Rio.
The fourth-generation RB car, sold in North America for the 2012–2017 model years, sat on the Hyundai-Kia PB platform and offered both a four-door sedan and a five-door hatchback, with one engine — a 1.6-liter Gamma direct-injected four rated at 137 horsepower — and a six-speed manual or automatic. The fifth-generation HC car arrived for 2018 on the K2 platform, sedan-only in the U.S., with output down to 130 hp but with genuinely modern equipment for the first time: a touchscreen with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, forward collision-avoidance assist, proximity key entry and heated seats. For 2020 Hyundai swapped in a 120-hp Smartstream 1.6 DPi and an IVT continuously variable transmission, and dropped the manual after 2021.
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