Just like the motoring journalists who went before him – who had travelled to a rural location to drive the brand’s range of road cars – he’d just enjoyed an unexpected and unavoidably adrenaline-filled passenger ride with current British Rally Championship leader Tom Cave.

Just like the motoring journalists who went before him – who had travelled to a rural location to drive the brand’s range of road cars – he’d just enjoyed an unexpected and unavoidably adrenaline-filled passenger ride with current British Rally Championship leader Tom Cave.

At an event designed to showcase the sheer breadth of the Korean brand’s passenger car offering, it was all the proof many needed that Hyundai remains capable of delivering genuine surprises.

“It’s a great brand to find myself at,” Andrew told AM. “Hyundai is at the forefront of so many technologies and has proved itself to be so agile in the past, it’s a really exciting place to be.”

But, after beating the market in 2018 – albeit with a 3.7% decline in registrations to 89,925 (2017: 93,403) – a 10% decline in sales during the first half of 2019 and question marks over the viability of the brand’s car store concept following Motorline’s recent departure from the Bluewater shopping centre in Kent, Andrew might not have things all his own way.