Hyundai Tuscani?

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Today I was walking through a parking lot (going to grab some D_Skins) and saw what appeared to be a standard Tiburon, but it had these wierd-azz badges on the hood and decklid and said 'Tuscani' on the back. They were pretty authentic-looking. What up with that? Is that the car's SKDM name?
 
There was a car (tiburon) at my GFs school that had that same badge on it. I never really went to the effort to find out what it was, but from the little looking that I did, it's just a bodykit or something like that.
 
Tuscani is the name of the concept for the new Tiburon, the hard-top convertible. It was on Worlds Greatest Car Shows on Speed TV.
 
The359
It's called the Tuscani in Asia and Coupe in Europe I believe.
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That's it exactly. Got to hand it to Hyundai for the thoughtful name for Europe.

I'll never understand why Hyundai-Kia changes perfectly good car names for the three major markets. If it can work as Optima here, it can work as Optima there too. Magentis is just a ****ing stupid name, like Taylor for a girl.
 
Strange, I was watching Speed TV (no nascar was on) and it was the 5th Gear episode that had a review of the Tiburon...and they called it the Tiburon.
 
Rumple Foreskin
The "Tuscani" is an option package.

Tiburons come in 'base', 'se' and ridiculously over priced 'Tuscani 5 spd' or 'Tuscani 6 spd' options.
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It's an optional package in Canada only, however. I believe they only come in yellow.

There's a local-ish Hyundai dealer selling a "Racing" edition of both the Accent and the Tiburon... with a big aluminium wing, fake hood scoops and tacky graphics on the sides. I kid you not.
 
well, apparently i've been told that Tiburons are tearing up their class in SCCA racing.... but i haven't researched it. I am seeing more an more of the new ones around here though.
 
The Tuscani name is only used on its domestic market (in Korea), the Coupe name is used most parts of the world, but the Tiburon is only used in the North American market.
 

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