The VERY Rare "Tuscani" exotic car... :)

It's a Tuscani, but that's it's name outside the US iirc. Tiburon is the US name for it. Kind of like 350Z in US, Fairlady Z in Japan.

 

Yes, the Tuscani is the revised Hyundai Tiburon for 2005. The name comes from Cani, meaning Dogs and Tus meaning breakfast in Latvian. Hence the Hyundai Dogs Breakfast.

 

http://www.tuscani.be/

 

Isn't TUSCANY the name of a TVR ?

 

it's tuscan.

 

I didn't care for it.

Transiently, it stays flat. But steady state, it'll just flop on a side. (kind've the reverse of an audi). The 6 speed is a rediculusly close ratio. I think I was 1/2 through third before I got to 60. Pretty underpowdered as well :shrug:. It's a girls car here in Michigan. I think Hyundai makes some pretty decent cars. That car will hold itself together for a long time.

 

It is a Hyundai.

In Europe, they think they drive a F456, so they wanna play big guys...

 

LOL

 

I thought Tuscani was a "limited" edition Tiburon, without the spoiler and in yellow?

 

In Australia they are about $AU 35K, so thats about $50K in your money.

 

lol dog's breakfast elsewhere, shark here.

 

That's disgusting. They can be had for $18,000 USD here in michigan :shrug:

 

I don't know where you got that to be $50k USD, but $35k AUD is $26,901.89 USD. That's also $33,274.42 CAD.

 

oops, I converted it the wrong way.

That should make things a little less disgusting for you Luke.

 

yes yes

 

It's just a Hyundai, also known as a Tiburon. Slow as a slug, although it looks OK. There are no real Korean performance cars.

This car looks the part of a performance car, but it's nowhere near as fast as a WRX or an Evo, which *are* really fast, but don't look the part.

 

Only because it's styled by Pininfarina.

 

That's neither here nor there, because Pininfarina has supposedly styled some monstrous looking Hyundais too, e.g. the Matrix :

And there are Asian cars that are pretty good looking, and are definitely not styled by Italians, like the 350Z :

I think the Tiburon was a sort of fluke, frankly. And it still doesn't look all that nice to me, just looks sort of "OK".

 

Not true! The early Tiburons had the drivetrain out of the 1st DSM cars!

 

If that's so, a swap is easy to do ? I'd rather like to have the new "nice looking' exterior with a serious powerplant.

 

Where its true its not on Ferraris level of power it is certainly not slow as a slug. My car which is supercharged has around 270 whp. It is certainly as fast as an EVO or wrx in fact my car is quite a bit faster.
I read an article where a stock Tiburon ran on the track against a Porche Boxter. Even with the Hyundai giving up 70HP it was under 2 seconds behind the Boxter on a 2.5 mile track. I would say thats a real Korean performance car IMO.

 

Is your's a 6speed or a 5speed? I test drove a 6 speed. I think I had to put it in 4th before I got to 60mph...... Geared way to short for me.

 

The 6-speed has a 4.33 in the rear end. So it's a good distribution of performance in acceleration and top speed. My car, though not having been on the drag strip in months should run around a 14.7. Not super fast, but not slow. I have raced a couple 350Z's and G35 coupes and usually run about even with them, if not, ever so slightly behind.

I have also reached the top speed of 150 mph in my car. So it has some top end .