Hyundai PassoCorto Concept has a Bright Start

With the Geneva Motor Show right around the corner, we are starting to find "sneak peeks" of different concept cars out of the big brands.  But not every new concept has a beginning like the Hyundai PassoCorto.

Hyundai bringing compact sports concept to Geneva
Student-designed PassoCorto concept is aimed at millennials.
By Alex Nishimoto of Motor Trend

The designs coming out of Korea lately have shown drastic improvement, but everyone can use a little help now and then. Help is exactly what Hyundai got after tapping the European Institute of Design in Turin, Italy to come up with a sports car that's "extremely compact" and appeals to millennials. The car will make its debut next month at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show.

Called the PassoCorto, the two-seat, mid-engined sports car features a 1.6-liter turbocharged I-4. The design study is the 10th full-scale model produced by the school, designed by 16 students in the Transportation Design Master's program in collaboration with Hyundai. The Korean automaker provided the students with design requirements, which specified that the target customer would be young individuals who are "always connected."

Each student submitted their own design, and two were chosen from the bunch and merged into one ? using 70 percent of one design and 30 percent of the other. The result is the curvaceous two-door you see here, which took one year to design and build.

It's difficult to say whether or not the design would be within financial reach of many millennials if produced, but we like what we see so far. The PassoCorto will make its debut on March 4 in Geneva. What do you think of the design?  Tell us in the comments below.

For more out of the Geneva Motor Show, stay tuned to the home of your Virginia Beach Hyundai store, Checkered Flag.com.

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Funny Stuff: Men vs. Women on Oil Change

Did you know you can bring any vehicle to ANY of our Checkered Flag service centers for maintenance?  That's right.  Need an inspection, tire rotation, or an oil change?   Stop by one of our Virginia Beach or Norfolk service centers. 

Some things in life are just too funny to keep to one's self.  I hope you enjoy this little bit of automotive humor as much as I did.  Here we take a look at the differences between women and men, when it comes time to change the oil.  

Women:

1. Pull up to Service Center when the mileage reaches 3000 since the last oil change.
2. Drink a cup of coffee.
3. 15 minutes later, swipe the debit card and leave with a properly maintained vehicle.

Men:

1. Go to auto parts store and write a check for 50 dollars for oil, filter, oil lift (AKA kitty litter), hand cleaner and scented tree.
2. Discover that the used oil container is full. Instead of taking it back to auto parts to recycle, dump in hole in back yard.
3. Open a beer and drink it.
4. Jack car up. Spend 30 minutes looking for jack stands.
5. Find jack stands under kid's pedal car.
6. In frustration, open another beer and drink it.
7. Place drain pan under engine.
8. Look for 9/16 box end wrench.
9. Give up and use crescent wrench.
10. Unscrew drain plug.
11. Drop drain plug in pan of hot oil; get hot oil on you in process.
12. Clean up.
13. Have another beer while oil is draining.
14. Look for oil filter wrench.
15. Give up; poke oil filter with Phillips screwdriver and twist it off.
16. Beer.
17. Buddy shows up; finish case with him. Finish oil change tomorrow.
18. Next day, drag pan full of old oil out from underneath car.
19. Throw oil lift (AKA kitty litter) on oil spilled during step 18.
20. Beer. No, drank it all yesterday.
21. Walk to 7-11; buy beer.
22. Install new oil filter making sure to apply thin coat of clean oil to gasket first.
23. Dump first quart of fresh oil into engine.
24. Remember drain plug from step 11.
25. Hurry to find drain plug in drain pan.
26. Hurry to replace drain plug before the whole quart of fresh oil drains onto floor.
27. Slip with wrench and bang knuckles on frame.
28. Bang head on floor board in reaction.
29. Begin cussing fit.
30. Throw wrench.
31. Cuss for additional 10 minutes because wrench hit Miss December(1992) in the left boob.
32. Clean up; apply Band-Aid to knuckle.
33. Beer.
34. Beer.
35. Dump in additional 4 quarts of oil.
36. Beer.
37. Lower car from jack stands.
38. Accidentally crush one of the jack stands.
39. Move car back to apply more oil lift (AKA kitty litter) to fresh oil spilled during step 23.
40. Drive car.

For an easier time with your next oil change, contact the ASE Certified professional technicians at Checkered Flag, and save your time, sanity, knuckles, posters, and beer.. sometimes we ladies do know best! 

You can set an appointment at any of our service centers by calling (757)490-1111.