Photos of the 2020 Hyundai Venue

The detailing around the roof pillars is interesting,

The Venue only comes with front-wheel drive and a single engine option, a 1.6-liter inline-four—a configuration that throws the Hyundai into direct competition with Nissan's Kicks, which also uses a 1.6-liter four-cylinder engine to power its front wheels.

The pronounced shoulder line running the length of each body side gives the Venue a substantial appearance despite its size.

The Venue is roughly the same size as Hyundai's Accent sedan; since that model's hatchback sibling was discontinued two years ago, the Venue more or less fills in for it, albeit with a more appealing pseudo-SUV appearance.

The usefully shaped Venue's body affords 19 cubic feet of cargo space.

Hyundai is targeting a combined rating of 33 mpg on the EPA's fuel-economy testing cycle.

Hyundai has seemingly copied Nissan's approach with the Kicks, loading the Venue with content and streamlining its trim-level structure to only SE and SEL variants.

Hyundai has realized that the hottest venue in the industry is the under-$20,000 crossover space.

Although pricing has not been announced, we expect the Venue to come in just under $20,000 to compete against the Nissan Kicks.

Hyundai will offer a six-speed manual transmission as well as a continuously variable automatic (CVT)—which is the only transmission Nissan sells the Kicks with.

What the Kicks is to the larger Rogue Sport—a less expensive, barely smaller alternative that lacks optional all-wheel drive—the Venue is the Kona. Jeep has similar overlap between its Renegade and Compass models. The point is, people are flocking to small crossovers, so the more an automaker can offer, the better.