My first car was a Hyundai Pony - as they named the Excel here in the UK. Red with a light brown interior. 1.3l petrol engine, 4 door hatch. It was 9 years old when I got it in 1997 and I gave it up in 2001 when the engine repair was going to cost more than the car was worth. It felt big with loads of room for my mates and our camping gear. Went fast enough for me and held its own on the long motorway journeys. When I visited the US in 1998 I was surprised to see the same model, colour and trim, but with the controls in reverse!

The joy of being Canadian: we had the Pony before we had the Excel. I never had the chance to own a Pony but I bought a ‘91 Excel SE brand new. It was a decent car which gave me seven years of trouble free driving.

When my wife was in college she bought a new 2 door hatchback blue Hyundai Excel. She paid $50 per month. No air conditioning and stick shift. About 65,000 miles the Korean rubber engine seals started to leak. A Hyundai service manager confided about that about that mileage "They all do." No shims like Toyota. I adjusted the valves manually just like I had to do on our later Honda Civic SI cars. The top of the plastic dashboard developed a nasty crack. The Excel did the job. See also a movie "My Fellow Americans." Jack Lemon and James Garner are former Presidents who have to drive in a rented Excel as it was the last working car on the rental lot. As they are driving through rural mountains one of the headrests is vibrating mercilessly. 😄 A good film on the history of the Excel.

My dad bought a brand new Excel in 1986, a Beige GL Sedan. It was a great car and did its job, but it started having issues the last year he owned it.

When I was in High School the Hyundai Excel was the car you drove because you couldn't afford anything else, and you dumped it the moment you could get ANYTHING else. Some other high school kid would end up with it and the cycle would repeat. Even a 10 year old Ford Escort or Chevrolet Citation was a HUGE step up from an Excel.

I was 20 in sophomore year of college and bought a 1986 4 door GL chocolate brown no A/C> It went 100k with only brakes and alternator....5 speed ...got me through college. 4 years old...started to rust. They had an engine fault faulty king pins (screw the rod heads together. The engines were known for a Lower engine noise. Many of the engines failed early due to this defect. The part was produced by a subcontractor. I got 40 mpg on the highway and had no problem cruising at 80 (I was 20 ). The interior held up well and the build quality was no worse than an american car of that time. I did have a couple of creaks and rattles in the dash which were easily fixed by a well placed quarter. The stereo was not bad but the speakers were awful, once I replaced them the sound was excellent. It was a great 1st car. I think back now and I bought a new car at 20 while in school full time and working. Something that is near impossible today.

My family bought a new one in the US in 1986, it was pretty basic but it was on the showroom floor. 4 speed manual transmission and no tachometer, but it did come with a cassette tape deck 😂

I had a fully loaded 1988 Hyundai Excel GS 3-door hatchback 5-speed. The "sports" car version of the Excel. Bright monochrome red. 68 whopping horsepower. It only caught fire once at 110,000 miles on the clock. 🔥 Fixed it and drive it another 45,000 miles. It was my first car. I loved that car.

When I graduated for college I got salesman job selling Hyundais in 1986. I sold 16 of these in about 2 months. I thought the car was far better than what was discussed in the press and superior to anything in its price class. Still do. I hated the sales job and resented the sales management being nothing more than old lot lizards who still dressed in polyester and who twice told me to kiss off a customer because "they aren't going to buy today." Well, I sold both of those customers a car. And then a week later I turned in my D plate and kissed them goodbye without remorse. I hate the process of buying a car because I know the games that are played.

“Hit the scene” 😂👊🏻👍🏻

Had an '89 Excel as my first brand new car, 4 door 5 speed, no A/C no power steering. It was a shitbox, but it was mechanically reliable, had 150K commuting miles on it when I traded it with no major problems. I believe it was a Mitsubishi powertrain. But man was it pitifully slow. You hit even the slightest of hills, you were passed by grannies on the sidewalk in their wheelchairs. The paint sucked, it chipped and peeled everywhere but the body didn't get the bad corrosion that the '82 Honda Civic I had prior to it did.

I still see a white Hyundai Excel from time to time in Dunwoody, Georgia. That’s the only one I have seen in over a decade lol

I'm on my second Hyundai - a 2018 Elantra GT (hatchback version) following a 2007 Elantra sedan. The quality is indeed much better and I would never have even considered the brand, after living through the crap Excels of the 80s, if they hadn't started fleet sales, so I ended up renting a couple of Sonatas on business trips and realized they had greatly improved their products.

We used to have them in my country , the Ac was really cold . I don’t see any of them now .

4:47 This car was not built in America. "Imported by Mitsubishi". States it right there on the hatch.

still have one google 1989 hyundai excel lowrider it’s a white hatchback

I was watching other video, I didn't watch the first version, what did you changed?

I actually still have a 91 with 70k miles i drive quite often