Buying your first car is an exciting experience, even more so if your first car is a new car. You are the first person to sit there, it’s your choice of colour, your choice of trim… It’s your car. You don’t need to spend a fortune these days either, as the revamped 2016 Hyundai Accent Active proves.
Ticking a lot of ‘good first car’ boxes, the entry-level Hyundai Accent Active automatic is currently priced at $15,990 driveaway.
Well-priced small hatches are how Hyundai made their mark in Australia. Wind the clock back 20 years and if, like me, you spent part of the 1990s on P-plates, you would surely have known someone (if not yourself) who owned a Hyundai Excel.
The cheery, curvy three-door hatch was the go-to first ‘new car’ for over 200,000 Australians between 1994 and 2000 â€" when it was, coincidently, replaced by the first-generation Accent. From just $15,690 (automatic, plus on-roads), the basic Excel Sprint was a near perfect first-car for the time. Bright colours, modern looks, reliable and economical â€" what more could you ask for?
Not a lot as it happened. The Excel was pretty basic. No airbags, no aircon, no ABS and Bluetooth audio wouldn’t make its way into cars until the turn of the millennium so you had to make do with the two-speaker stereo and a glovebox full of TDK mix-tapes.
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