Hyundai heads for a day of Golf

‘It looks like a Golf,” my friend said to me as I pulled up outside his place in the car you see here, the brand new for 2017 Hyundai i30.

And you can’t disagree too strongly with him, can you? Certainly when viewed from the rear or rear three quarters, the new i30 has more than a hint of the German car about it — a comparison we doubt Hyundai is unhappy about.

But move around to the front and you’ll discover that the Korean company is keen to forge its own brand identity, defined for the first time in the new i30 by the so-called cascading grille.