Driven: Hyundai i30

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The Hyundai looks sharper and more upmarket, but feels familiar to drive.

Korean maker's popular small car has come a long way since its launch five years ago.

Hyundai has high hopes for the second generation of its strong-selling small car, the i30, and not without good reason.

The nuggety hatch is the Korean company's strongest seller by a long margin, and a big driver of the company's inexorable growth in Australia over the past three years.

The all-new model arrives just five years after its predecessor was launched, a comparatively short model life in car terms. Indeed, Hyundai points out that every i30 model on Australian roads is still covered by its five-year factory warranty.

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But five years is also an eon in terms of the design, equipment and dynamic improvements its competitors have delivered.

So has the i30 got the chops to not only hold its ground in Australias largest and most competitive segment, but also to steal sales from its highly credentialled competitors?

In a word, yes.

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Driven: Hyundai i30