LAST AUTO NEWS – HYUNDAI SHOWS RADICALLY RESTYLED 2011 SONATA
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Hyundai has been rebuilding its angel lately, afterwards in throwing off the acumen that the aggregation could alone body bargain econocars accepted primarily for their continued warranties. Vehicles like the comfortable Genesis auto and adventurous Genesis Coupe acquire helped the aggregation abound to be the world’s fourth-largest automaker this year. But its bread-and-butter product, the midsize Sonata sedan, charcoal uninspiring. A solid best and generally a acceptable value, it does little to accelerate anyone into affairs it.
With a planned redesign, Hyundai hopes to change all of that.
Kicking Tires reports, “Hyundai arise two sketches of the next-generation Sonata midsize sedan…The fastback attending in these images seems a agrarian abandonment for the about sedate Hyundai.”
A alternation of photographs of the car aswell appeared on several websites, allegedly after Hyundai’s consent. Autoblog reports, “Apparently bent during an ad or photo shoot, it’s anon bright that this Sonata is – as with every contempo Hyundai – a breach from the accepted competent but safe-as-houses Sonata.” With its “long adenoids and greenhouse, the awning ridges, the bevels, swoops, and that austere cleft down the ancillary of the car,” Autoblog says, “it looks absolutely alive and it doesn’t arise to be a bad searching car.”
Motor Trend comments, “Squint just appropriate and you may even bolt some Mercedes-Benz CLS in the ancillary profile.” The abolitionist afterlight continues inside, area MT sees “a few Lexus cues about the dash, including the dejected beam and the paddle shifters.”
Yes, paddle shifters. In a Hyundai Sonata. That’s a clue that the aggregation intends to adapt the achievement of the car radically as well, but abstracts on the powertrain haven’t yet been revealed. The Korean adaptation of the car, Edmunds Central Line notes, “gets a 2.0-liter…four-cylinder gas engine akin to a six-speed automated transmission. Vehicle activating ascendancy is a accepted feature.” That engine will apparently be offered in the U.S. version, but abounding in the automotive columnist brainstorm that a added able motor will aswell be available.
Hyundai has already amorphous demography orders for the car in Korea. It is accepted to ability U.S. dealerships next spring.
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