What is it?
Hyundai’s family-sized Tucson SUV is its best-selling model to date, now in its fourth generation since its 2004 debut, so you’d expect it to come in plenty of versions. Most are two-wheel drive, but there are basic petrol and diesel powertrains, lots of mild hybrids, several levels of full hybrid, and a plug-in hybrid a few months away.
However, there’s less choice if you want a four-wheel-drive Tucson. You’re restricted to the spec of our test car, a 178bhp mild hybrid whose smooth and efficient transverse 1.6-litre four-cylinder petrol engine is assisted by a 48V integrated starter-generator driving through a seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox. It’s fulltime four-wheel drive, like its many rivals, bristling with traction controls and a selectable hill descent function.
The all-new Tucson is a little bigger than the outgoing model (20mm longer, all of which appears to go into rear leg room) and it has a new, rakish design style that lifts it out of the crowd. Its 4.5m overall length fits neatly between a Nissan Qashqai and Volvo XC40.
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Can anyone except Steve Cropley see two 10.25 inch screens in the centre console? I see one and a very small digital temperature screen similar to a digital watch. I like the look of this. Koreans are running way ahead on hybrids at the moment.
The "from price" in your article is misleading to the point of just wrong, the Hyundai official UK website has the price from £28,495.
The as Tested price of £37,500 is more realistic and should be the headline price
I wonder if a reviewer has every driven a base car from a manufacturer - and yes I know that you get what you are given but you should make a point of this in the review.
autocar claim ignorance but its a clear bait and switch scam to trick customers into showrooms with misleading underpricing , you cant even buy a i30 from that price. sure this disgusting suv cost 18k… back in 2010..heck car reviewers also NEVER review poverty spec cars as that will put the car in a bad light so they are always given loaded spec cars horrible car, typical korean rip off design with no cohesive design language of their own entire car is a cheap Ripoff of the Merc eqc buy a Toyota rav 4 over this, better residuals and better build quality than this overpriced turd
That side on profile is not great. The huge angular wheel arches look awful to me. Shame, because overall, it is quite a striking design
I guess it's in the eye of the beholder. The asymmetrical contour of the wheelarch is carried over from previous tucsons, whereas the fact that they bulge, in 944 or Integrale style, is aggressive, sporty and currently quite fashionable, in a brutish kind of way, as seen in the recent GR Yaris or the Dacia Bigster prototype.
From other angles, they don't look so bad, but that side on profile, to me, looks awful. The wheels look like they are casters. Otherwise, i like the car's front and rear ends