The Hyundai Accent has been with us for so very long — considering that the 1995 design 12 months in the United States — that we consider it for granted as a competent-but-unexciting commuter subcompact. The Accent changed Hyundai’s to start with American-current market presenting, the low-priced-and-crude Excel, and it proved very good ample to make the levels of competition sweat much much more than its predecessor at any time did. One particular of the rarest of all Accents is the GT version, offered through its early years of output, and that’s what I’ve located for present-day Junkyard Gem in Colorado.

Inevitably, a twin-overhead-cam motor grew to become normal on the Accent, but in 1997 you experienced to purchase the GT to get that bit of factory-sizzling-rod technological innovation.

Rather substantially the exact detail as an Acura Integra GS-R, but at about half the price tag ($21,150 vs . $10,614, or $34,626 and $17,377 today).

Actually, that ’97 GS-R had 170 horsepower and the ’97 Accent GT had 105 horsepower, but that was however far better than the 92-horse engine in the frequent Accent that 12 months.

This vehicle has the foundation 5-pace manual transmission, which would have created it fairly enjoyable to generate.

The Accent GT also acquired a stiffer suspension and this exquisitely 1990s seat upholstery.

225,781 miles is very superior for a vehicle that almost certainly didn’t get dealt with with child gloves.

By the finish, its final proprietor was just dumping cigarette butts and orange peels on the ground. 

The duct-tape residue, sheet-metal screws, and crudely installed aftermarket radio indicate that many audio devices lived in this dash.

The Tiburon took above from the Accent GT as Hyundai’s sporty car, but we can bear in mind this just one as the descendant of the Scoupe.

New Accent!