2015 Hyundai Sonata 1.6L Eco

2015 Hyundai Sonata 1.6L Eco

Efficiency is more paramount than at any other time in the moderate size family-vehicle section. Each automaker is pursuing those subtle additional mpg in every model—and not simply with crossovers. Witness this new Eco release of the 2015 Hyundai Sonata. A hybridized variant of the new auto will land one year from now the cordial Sonata half and half will be sold until then—yet the Eco is expected to give those searching for effectiveness a less entangled alternative at a somewhat lower purpose of entrance.

The Eco gets a 1.6-liter turbocharged four-barrel set up of the standard Sonata's commonly suctioned 2.4-liter four, and it puts a seven-velocity double grasp programmed gearbox where the normal auto has a six-rate torque-converter auto. Contrasted and the 2.4-liter Sonata, the Eco is assessed to return upwards of 4 more mpg in the city and 3 more mpg on the roadway, for sums of 28/38.

2015 Hyundai Sonata 1.6L Eco : Econata

Albeit like the six-pace double grasp auto Hyundai offers in the non-turbo Veloster, the new DCT—Hyundai's initial seven-speeder of this sort has electronically incited gearchanging instead of the Veloster's water driven activation. This change alone has a colossal effect in the Sonata Eco's drivability. The double grip Veloster tries its hardest to mimic a customary programmed to poor impact yet the Sonata's DCT grasps its personality and works more like the double grasp automobiles from Volkswagen. Despite the fact that this present transmission's mind isn't especially expedient at reacting to quick boots of the throttle, once the gearchanges are started, they're fresh and brisk.

The transmission's conduct from a stop is especially overall tuned, with next to zero grasp babble and speedy takeup for prompt quickening. Movements took care of in programmed mode are firm and brief, and if the driver chooses to ring degrees physically, he'll be compensated with far speedier rigging swaps than are conceivable with the Sonata's standard programmed. Better still, the turbocharged, immediate infused 1.6-liter four flexes its extra 18 lb-ft of torque and revs more openly than does the base 2.4-liter four. (The Eco has eight less strength.) This auto imparts its suspension tuning to the fine-driving 2.4, too, which implies it conveys almost no taking care of punishment as an aftereffect of its eco-fication.

Temperate Position

Beginning at $24,085, the Hyundai Sonata 1.6L Eco involves a decent place in the Hyundai Sonata valuing pecking order. The base 2.4-liter SE model begins at $21,960, yet the Eco gloats a not too bad EPA mileage knock and a huge amount of additional substance, including programmed headlights, a 10-way power driver's seat, the 5.0-inch focus stack show with Blue Link telematics capacity, and a reinforcement Polaroid. A likewise prepared SE costs $925 less. That value differential is like Ford's $795 upcharge for the 1.5-liter Ecoboost motor in the Fusion versus the base regularly suctioned 2.5-liter.

Purchasers can fit their Hyundai Sonata Ecos with the $4100 Technology bundle, which brings chrome outside trim, a blind side location framework with back cross-movement caution, path change support, a closeness key with pushbutton ignition, without hands trunk opening, cowhide for the seats and directing wheel, warmed front seats, double zone programmed atmosphere control, a 8.0-inch touch-screen infotainment framework with Blue Link, and an auto-darkening rearview mirror. All in, a completely stacked Eco won't break $29,000.

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