I am so glad we have options other than swoopy egg shape! This looks much better. I have a hybrid Sportage and I would take this next for sure.
Edit: Wow this hits so many of my want list items: Hybrid, physical buttons, nice interior, not swoopy, spare tire, even the door handles are not the weird pop out things. I even like the fun voice AI stuff.
Nice job Hyundai.
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- Couldn't agree more. Love the XRT in particular. Before seeing this I was a hard no on Pleos, but I'm coming around. Just wish the screen was a little better integrated.
- This is certainly how you do an interior! I drive a Mazda and I really like my physical controls. Got in the new CX5 to check out the huge tablet and was not happy with it. This looks like a great mix of large screen and HVAC buttons. Exterior is a little much but it certainly has a unique design language!
- Feels like they watched reviews of their other cars and other manufacturers, and they are addressing issues. The driver screen is above the steering wheel. No piano black in common use areas. Physical controls for major controls, or controls you want to toggle before waiting for infotainment to load up. XRT uses some interesting styling that makes it unique, without looking like generic plastic cladding used by others. Also, if that XRT was hybrid, that will be new this year.
- My 2 complaints are that lack of visibility from the thicc D pillar (take notes from Subaru, the Forester does a good job with this) and why does the front need to have such a truck-like cutoff? It makes visibility awful when parallel parking and I thought my 5th gen RAV4 was bad, not to mention “what was that speed bump that felt like I just ran over a toddler…wait…”
Spare on the hybrid though is a big win, I doubt the plugin will get that but hey, better than the current generation
- I disagree completely; Samsung's divisions are very separate. For example, Samsung Mobile "screws over" Samsung Semi/LSI and refuses to buy Exynos processors for certain models. And Samsung Mobile isn't obligated to buy displays from Samsung Display.
I would argue the infotainment system also doesn't have deep integration. It's not running One UI and doesn't have any special Bixby integration, "Galaxy AI" continuity, or other stuff. Just like how their Gen3-Gen5 infotainments run on Android* but they don't have any special integration with Android phones, just typical Android Auto and Bluetooth integration. And how the Linux-based Gen5, CCIC, and CCNC systems don't have any special integration with Linux laptops. There's a giant difference between using the same OS, and implementing continuity features between them, especially with a thick skin like Hyundai's new Pleos system.
- May Hyundai resist the ancient curse of mid cycle facelifts and preserve this glorious design for five long years. Let the winds of corporate indecision be silenced. Let the stylists’ pens remain sharp. Let no executive rise from the shadows whispering ‘soften the grille.’ For if they do… the streets will tremble, and the people will cry out, ‘WHY DID YOU CHANGE IT.’
- Toyota, Hyundai, and Honda will all eventually end up copying China in hybrids and EVs—just like Hyundai has practically already done with the Tucson, featuring the same style of interior with massive screen displays inside. In the next 10 years, you and I, along with most people, will end up buying Chinese cars.
- Hyundai desparately needs to update their actual logo. it looks extremely dated and lame. not remotely modern looking like the rest of their newer designs. they also regularly emboss them into the body work making removing them difficult (specifically thinking Ioniq5 here). Kia correctly updated theirs with the "Nine Inch Nails" logo refresh and that made a huge difference. Hyundai really needs to do the same. looks cheap.
the 4 dots on the steering wheel is much cooler but that is probably a bit too abstracted for a main logo. but it is still better than the dated H logo.
- Hyundai/Kia is absolutely running away from the entire car industry at this point. They really went from dogshit to decent budget cars to genuinely competitive mainstream cars to now around me at least they are basically the default family/value brand. And it seems like they are starting to actually become front runners in technology, maybe it’s because of their vertical integration they can react to consumer demand more like Tesla and less like Toyota
- Well the car design language from Hyundai looks hideous as they all do. And the low down lighting makes no sense. That's just no how lighting works. There's a reason the government mandated a high mounted center brake light.
But on the bright side, Hyundai does more than one thing right that's better than anyone else in the industry. That's in their bang for the buck. You get a lot of nice looking -- if not premium -- features and functions.
For one, their cars are feature rich. I love their attention to detain when it comes to functional storage cubbies and nooks. They're also smart enough to provide buyers with a camera/rear view mirror since rear seat passengers and/or cargo can block the rear view from the driver seat.
Last, but not least, the judicious use of light and airy colors and material. As someone without any small kids, I'd much prefer to have a light interior, particularly one with a light headliner. No more dark, gloomy, car interiors for me thank you.
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- Couldn't agree more. Love the XRT in particular. Before seeing this I was a hard no on Pleos, but I'm coming around. Just wish the screen was a little better integrated.
- This is certainly how you do an interior! I drive a Mazda and I really like my physical controls. Got in the new CX5 to check out the huge tablet and was not happy with it. This looks like a great mix of large screen and HVAC buttons. Exterior is a little much but it certainly has a unique design language!
- Feels like they watched reviews of their other cars and other manufacturers, and they are addressing issues. The driver screen is above the steering wheel. No piano black in common use areas. Physical controls for major controls, or controls you want to toggle before waiting for infotainment to load up. XRT uses some interesting styling that makes it unique, without looking like generic plastic cladding used by others. Also, if that XRT was hybrid, that will be new this year.
- My 2 complaints are that lack of visibility from the thicc D pillar (take notes from Subaru, the Forester does a good job with this) and why does the front need to have such a truck-like cutoff? It makes visibility awful when parallel parking and I thought my 5th gen RAV4 was bad, not to mention “what was that speed bump that felt like I just ran over a toddler…wait…”
Spare on the hybrid though is a big win, I doubt the plugin will get that but hey, better than the current generation
- I disagree completely; Samsung's divisions are very separate. For example, Samsung Mobile "screws over" Samsung Semi/LSI and refuses to buy Exynos processors for certain models. And Samsung Mobile isn't obligated to buy displays from Samsung Display.
I would argue the infotainment system also doesn't have deep integration. It's not running One UI and doesn't have any special Bixby integration, "Galaxy AI" continuity, or other stuff. Just like how their Gen3-Gen5 infotainments run on Android* but they don't have any special integration with Android phones, just typical Android Auto and Bluetooth integration. And how the Linux-based Gen5, CCIC, and CCNC systems don't have any special integration with Linux laptops. There's a giant difference between using the same OS, and implementing continuity features between them, especially with a thick skin like Hyundai's new Pleos system.
- May Hyundai resist the ancient curse of mid cycle facelifts and preserve this glorious design for five long years. Let the winds of corporate indecision be silenced. Let the stylists’ pens remain sharp. Let no executive rise from the shadows whispering ‘soften the grille.’ For if they do… the streets will tremble, and the people will cry out, ‘WHY DID YOU CHANGE IT.’
- Toyota, Hyundai, and Honda will all eventually end up copying China in hybrids and EVs—just like Hyundai has practically already done with the Tucson, featuring the same style of interior with massive screen displays inside. In the next 10 years, you and I, along with most people, will end up buying Chinese cars.
- Hyundai desparately needs to update their actual logo. it looks extremely dated and lame. not remotely modern looking like the rest of their newer designs. they also regularly emboss them into the body work making removing them difficult (specifically thinking Ioniq5 here). Kia correctly updated theirs with the "Nine Inch Nails" logo refresh and that made a huge difference. Hyundai really needs to do the same. looks cheap.
the 4 dots on the steering wheel is much cooler but that is probably a bit too abstracted for a main logo. but it is still better than the dated H logo.
- Hyundai/Kia is absolutely running away from the entire car industry at this point. They really went from dogshit to decent budget cars to genuinely competitive mainstream cars to now around me at least they are basically the default family/value brand. And it seems like they are starting to actually become front runners in technology, maybe it’s because of their vertical integration they can react to consumer demand more like Tesla and less like Toyota
- Well the car design language from Hyundai looks hideous as they all do. And the low down lighting makes no sense. That's just no how lighting works. There's a reason the government mandated a high mounted center brake light.
But on the bright side, Hyundai does more than one thing right that's better than anyone else in the industry. That's in their bang for the buck. You get a lot of nice looking -- if not premium -- features and functions.
For one, their cars are feature rich. I love their attention to detain when it comes to functional storage cubbies and nooks. They're also smart enough to provide buyers with a camera/rear view mirror since rear seat passengers and/or cargo can block the rear view from the driver seat.
Last, but not least, the judicious use of light and airy colors and material. As someone without any small kids, I'd much prefer to have a light interior, particularly one with a light headliner. No more dark, gloomy, car interiors for me thank you.
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