Be careful when you push the pedal,” my colleague who drives an automatic, warns me as I step in to the swanky new Hyundai Elantra SX Automatic waiting for me at the office parking lot. I soon realise why. The SX petrol version purrs like a kitten when you start the engine at the push of a button, but the moment you touch the accelerator, the tiger in the 1.8 litre engine wakes up. Before we can spell out the name and the model of the car, we are zooming at 80kmph -- thankfully on a relatively empty stretch of road. Whoa!u00a0But then this is a new toy for someone used to pushing clutch and changing gears every other minute. And which boy doesn’t like to play with a classy toy? But we are reviewing a car here. So we get down to serious business.

The Hyundai Elantra SX Automatic boasts of a sleek design and impressive head-lights that imparts it a sporty look