Hyundai’s first Accent, launched in 1994 to replace the Excel and, in several markets including Australia and the Netherlands, sold under the Excel name itself rather than a new one.[1] It was built and rebadged even more widely than that: as the Hyundai Pony in France, the Bimantara Cakra in Indonesia and the Kia Qianlima in China, sharing sheet metal across brands and continents from a single Ulsan design.
The car’s own sourcing is a small lesson in how numbers are dated. Its weight is published as a range across the run (2,101-2,150 lb, or roughly 953-975 kg); the specific figure recorded here, 953 kg, comes from a Canadian government record of the two-door hatchback and sits at the low end of that range, so it describes one particular body style, not the whole model. Two engine states of tune are recorded, an early single-cam and a 1997 twin-cam facelift, and they are kept apart deliberately: Hyundai also sold a higher-output “GT” tune of the same twin-cam engine in the US, which made a different power figure and is not the trim recorded here.
