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2021 Hyundai Sonata Redesign Speed Test – 2021 Hyundai Sonata Redesign
When the redesigned 2015 Hyundai Sonata mid-size auto was unveiled, a new amalgam archetypal was not a allotment of the lineup.
Instead, the Sonata Amalgam will backpack on through the 2015 archetypal year application the beforehand design–but now we apperceive there’s a new adaptation on the way.
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Hyundai apparent the new Sonata Amalgam in Seoul this week, with adapted administration to bout the blow of the calendar and a revised powertrain.
2015 Hyundai Sonata 2.4 Limited
The accepted model’s 2.4-liter Atkinson-cycle four-cylinder agent is replaced with a 2.0-liter direct-injected four, forth with an adapted six-speed automated transmission.
Hyundai lists ability achievement as 154 application for the gasoline agent and 38 application (50 hp) for the electric motor, but hasn’t appear a accumulated achievement figure.
(Just abacus the abstracts for the gasoline agent and electric motor calm isn’t consistently authentic because of their differing ability curves.)
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The new Sonata Amalgam additionally gets a revised lithium-ion array backpack that Hyundai says is 13 percent lighter than before, but with hardly added accumulator capacity. It’s additionally now amid beneath the attic of the block to chargeless up burden space.
There are some administration differences–including a different and added grille, automated admixture wheels, and an underbody tray and diffuser.
Overall, however, the new Sonata Amalgam looks rather added like its accepted gasoline analogue than the antecedent archetypal did. The 2011-2015 amalgam Sonata has a abnormally shaped grille and different aboveboard appearance.
Hyundai says the Sonata Amalgam will barrage in “major markets” alfresco Korea in the aboriginal bisected of 2015–meaning it could accomplish it to the U.S. as a 2016 model. It will accomplish its North American admission at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show in January.
2015 Hyundai Sonata 2.4 Limited
The Sonata Amalgam will additionally be abutting by a new constituent amalgam version, which Hyundai affairs to altercate at the Detroit Auto Show as well.
That car will affection a powertrain aggregate with the abutting Kia Optima, and will attempt with constituent hybrids from Ford, Toyota, and others.
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The amalgam and constituent amalgam mid-size auto models are allotment of a beyond plan by Hyundai and Kia to grab the all-around cardinal two aperture in blooming cars by 2020.
The Korean carmaker additionally affairs to acquaint its aboriginal committed amalgam archetypal after abutting year. We may apprentice added capacity about this in Detroit, area Hyundai is accepted to altercate its green-car strategy.
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