2015 Hyundai Sonata Sport 2.0T

2015 Hyundai Sonata Sport 2.0T

Over its life compass, the Hyundai Sonata has once in a while put forth a capable styling expression. (We're not including the influentially appalling ones.) But the last Sonata remained as the looker in its set until it was obscured by its exquisite Kia Optima stablemate and Ford's new David Brown Fusion Martin. For 2015, the Hyundai has dialed back the radical for a car assembled to mix.

In light of a legitimate concern for tractability (and mileage, most likely), the specialists have gone light on force at the highest point of the line, preparing the top-spec 2.0-liter motor with a more modest turbocharger. Thus, torque drops to 245 from 274, and the new Hyundai Sonata surrenders a critical 1.9 seconds to our 2011 long haul 2.0t in the 0-to-60-mph sprint. The base auto sallies hence with a commonly suctioned, 185-hp 2.4-liter four, while a turbocharged 1.6 lands as the Eco-badged fuel-recluse uncommon. The 2.4 and the 2.0 turbo are combined with a six-velocity autobox, yet the 1.6 gets Hyundai's seven-pace double grasp unit. The crossover fighters on with the old body style until 2016.

Once more on the theme of styling, Hyundai Sonata appears to have lost some energy here with the Sport adaptation. The new outline essentially doesn't hang together and did the past slashed from-soapstone model. The chrome on the ledge enlargements of our stacked Sport 2.0t looks unnecessary and somewhat chintzy, while the back spoiler appears to be as though some individual stuck it on as a test and after that neglected to evacuate it. The lesser autos are all the more stylishly effective.

2015 Hyundai Sonata Sport 2.0T : Design

Conversely, the inside is pleasantly thoroughly considered. There are no glaring ergonomic imperfections, and the materials are in any event normal for this exceptionally focused class. Back seat inhabitants pick up an inch of legroom over the friendly auto. The Sonata registers BMW 7-arrangement calm on the decibel meter, in spite of the fact that the clamors that get in aren't the most average. Wind thunders around the A-columns, and clear turbo whoosh matches dissonantly with a few '90s-aftereffect motor whip. The perceivability's great and the seats are agreeable, and family people and voyaging sales representatives won't discover driving the auto exhausting.

Our test auto was a preproduction unit that Hyundai had determined out to California from its Montgomery, Alabama, plant, and it did endure a noteworthy accident. An undertorqued hose clip let go between the turbo and the intercooler. The resultant absence of help at elevation in the Angeles National Forest left the auto with what felt like a third of its evaluated torque.

We limped to a corner store for an impromptu repair with an the under size screwdriver, which held until our 30 to 50 mph test run at Hyundai's high-betray demonstrating ground. Office techs torqued it back up and the auto exhibited no further issues. In any case the greater part of this could have brought about traded off read: slower—execution numbers, and we will be executing our battery of tests on an alternate 2.0t at the earliest opportunity.

We can't say that the Sonata Sport shone as splendidly as the Mazda 6 or Honda Accord on the mountain country terraces preceding its misfortune of help, yet its just as compensating to drive as a Fusion. Nor would we be able to container it as a separated machine. The grasp disinclined tires, that which served up 0.80 g on the skidpad, the still transmit enough cautioning to keep things from going hairball, while criticism through the wheel was available, welcome, and shockingly dynamic. The Koreans have frequently been abraded for designing the numbest directing in the business, however the Sonata Sport 2.0t is an alternate indicator after the 2015 Genesis vehicle that the pattern may be turning around. The rack—extraordinary among 2015 Sonatas—even betters those in some substantially more costly iron from Europe.

The case changes are striking, and braking endures stand out bad mark: a pedal that is a bit excessively energetic to chomp from the start. Whatever remains of the pedal's travel is pleasant and straight, and our measured halting separation is class-aggressive at 178 feet from 70 mph.

Still, we doubt the organization's choice to call this model "Game," unless the game to which they're alluding is twisting. With that additional back legroom and a trunk measuring 16.3 cubic feet, the Sonata will joyfully convey a beefy four-man squad, a supplement of stones, a set of sweepers, and enough icy ones to keep the diversion warmed.

So will it mix? Hyundai is wagering that clients in the portion will like the smoothie it has served up. We like it fine and dandy, notwithstanding the Sport model's unique nonattendance of liveliness. In spite of the fact that we have an inclination its blended sack of qualities and bad marks would put it midpack in a vast correlation test, its better qualities are at last those that win.

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