THE NEW ACCENT: VERNA

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The word has been out for a while that Hyundai Accent has a successor, and it will be called the Verna. There were talks of selling the old Accent and the Verna side by side, similar to Ford's Ikon and Fiesta, but it may not be so, as Accent's production has already stopped. Verna is likely to be out in the Indian market sometime in the later half of 2006.

Verna is supposed to be a much bigger car than Accent, somewhere the size of the Honda City. The Indian Verna is still not out of Hyundai's test track, and there are no reports about it. But a few lucky auto journalists have already had a look at the international versions of Verna, and the response is mixed. The folks at Autocar India got a chance to play with the Verna at Singapore and do not seem to be very impressed, while the guys at BS Motoring who drove it in Korea seem to love it.