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The 2020 Hyundai Sonata Is a Shockingly Quirky Midsize Sedan

Feb 22, 2020
this is the new

2020

hyundai

sonata

and it is the completely redesigned version of

hyundai

's

midsize

sedan

nowadays everyone buys suvs and crossovers but if today you are looking for a

midsize

and this one has some pretty cool quirks and some awesome features and some not so good things too and today I'm going to review the

2020

sonata

and show you what I want to say first a little history the sonata first went on sale here in North America for the 1989 model year which means it has It's been around for over 30 years, but it wasn't until the 2011 model year that the Sonata really started to gain momentum in sales.
the 2020 hyundai sonata is a shockingly quirky midsize sedan
It was finally a truly competitive car to take on established rivals like the Toyota Camry, Honda Accord and others, and this model continues the trend of the 2020 Sonata. It has been completely redesigned inside and out and is the sixth generation of the Sonata that It is sold here in North America. Pricing starts around twenty-four thousand dollars, but this is a fully equipped, top-of-the-line Sonata limited model with a sticker price of just under thirty. five thousand dollars, the latest sonata has a high-performance version and a hybrid model that will arrive in a few months, but right now it offers two engine options and pay attention because it is strange, the base engine is a 2.5-liter four-cylinder that makes 191 horsepower or you can upgrade to a 1.6-liter turbocharged four-cylinder that makes 180 horsepower.
the 2020 hyundai sonata is a shockingly quirky midsize sedan

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Yes, you heard right, the upgraded engine has less power than the base engine, which is a strange quirk of the Sonata. Another is the style we will obtain. in a minute and today I'll cover everything else about the new Sonata 2. First, I'll take you on a tour and show you all of its interesting quirks and features. I'm going to take it out on the road and drive it and then give it an excellent rating. I'm going to start with the peculiarities and characteristics of the new sonata with, without a doubt, its most peculiar peculiarity and that would be the fact. that I can move it while I'm standing here, okay, look at this to start this process, first you have to press this button on the key fob and that will start the car remotely.
the 2020 hyundai sonata is a shockingly quirky midsize sedan
It's not too unusual, a lot of newer cars have that and the Sonata does it too now, once you've started it press this button on the key fob that has the top of a car and then a p with an arrow and then the sonata will begin to move forward. Now you might be wondering why exactly anyone would want this feature. and it's a reasonably good question, but there are situations where you could use it, for example, if you're in a tight parking space or a tight garage and there's not enough room to easily open the door and get into your car, just use your keychain. to move it forward and then you will be able to have more space and of course you can also use your keychain to move it backwards just press the opposite button and the car will start moving backwards in case you want to move it in the other direction and you can fully control this from the keychain I'm not in the car I'm not touching anything I'm just standing here now of course I know what you're thinking which is good what will happen if the car is about to hit something? actually hit something, so let's take a look and try it.
the 2020 hyundai sonata is a shockingly quirky midsize sedan
Now I'm pressing the forward button and it goes forward and I'm going to try to walk in front of it and it stops, it actually senses that it was there and it stops and doesn't go forward anymore if I move out of the way of course the car will continue its way forward once you press and hold the button again. You might wonder how you stop it any other way when no one is walking. facing it, the answer is to simply release the p button on the key fob and it comes to a complete stop quite easily.
In fact, I have now shown you this feature on a few other cars, the new BMW M760i luxury

sedan

and the Tesla. model 3 performance but both are much more expensive than the sonata at only 35,000 this is the cheapest car where you get this cool party trick and the next interesting quirk of the sonata is that the sound system comes preloaded with sounds and I don't mean music, I mean sounds, go to the nature sounds icon on the infotainment system, tap it and then you will have several different options of nature sounds that you can listen to.
Let's start with the animated forest that sounds like this below. you have calm ocean waves that sound like that and then you have a rainy day that sounds like that and then there's a kinda weird outdoor cafe but it sounds like that anyway and then a warm fireplace that sounds like that but the weirdest one is definitely the last thing that would be a snowy town, what exactly does a snowy town sound like? Apparently this, oh yeah, is a nice snowy town, anyway, the theory here, I guess, is that if you're driving and you don't want to listen to the radio or music or podcast, you can listen to these relaxing sounds of snow instead. nature including my favorite nature sound an outdoor cafe and then another quirk of the sonata would be the blind spot cameras.
You have your usual cameras in the infotainment system on the center screen. Nothing. It's too strange, but when you turn on your turn signal, a camera in the gauge cluster turns on that shows your blind spot in whatever direction you just pointed. This is a brilliant idea that allows you to see if there are cars behind you without having to do it. resorting to dangerous over the shoulder control where you take your eyes off the road, it's a brilliant feature and of course it signals the other direction and the other side of the gauge cluster places a camera that shows the blind spot on the other side.
Now I have shown you this feature on some Kia and Hyundai models. It's really brilliant and I really hope all car manufacturers adopt it. It's a huge safety upgrade, one of the best I've seen in recent years, and every time I get out of a car that has that feature and get back to my car, I'm always thinking I really wish I had those blind spot cameras with signs. of turning and then I'm going to move on to another notable quirk of the Sonata and that would be the front styling, but I'm going to start with the headlights and specifically the running light.
The running light on the front not only goes along the bottom of the headlight but it comes to this line right here, like it goes halfway up the hood and then it fades out and stops, but then after it the light goes out, you can see this line extends across the rest of the body, which is something I haven't really seen before, a very distinctive sonata feature. Now I really like this idea. seeing it in the dark gives the sonata a very particular lighting signature that doesn't match any other car it looks cool but it's certainly been talked about a lot as an unusual touch on the new sonata but there's nothing more unusual in terms of the styling of this one car than the front, this car has this giant wide front grille and it gets to these weird spots at the end that stick out, it doesn't look that weird on a dark colored car like this, but on a lighter car, it looks like it has a big wide fish mouth at the front and it definitely looks like the latest sonata is a bit of a victim of over styling and next we move under the hood of the new sonata where you can see this one.
It is equipped with a turbo engine with smart stream g what is smart stream g? you might ask, no one knows and even less the type of people who buy a sonata who don't care about that, but this car has it now, Sonata owners may be interested in Odd engine options for this vehicle, as I mentioned the base engine is a 2.5 liter 4 cylinder with 191 horsepower or you can upgrade to the higher trim levels which have a 1.6 turbo 4 cylinders with 180 horsepower less power in the best engine, now it's worth it. Considering that the optional engine has more torque than the base engine, this powertrain has 195 pound-feet, while the base engine has about 180.
So, the optional engine has 10 less horsepower but 15 pound-feet more torque and Hyundai says that will make people choose the optional engine personally. I think acceleration will be virtually identical with either engine. Now you might be thinking, maybe the upgraded engine will get better fuel economy than the base engine. The optional engine is smaller after all, 1.6 liters versus 2.5, but that's not the case. It's true that the base engine gets 32 miles per gallon and combined city and highway driving, the optional engine gets 31 miles per gallon, so if you spend more money to get the optional engine you'll get less horsepower and less economy of fuel, which is definitely an interesting quirk. the sonata and then head back inside for some more interesting quirks and features, starting with the fact that the sonata always tells you the current weather, it's in the gauge cluster next to the time temperature your speedometer has the current weather you can see.
It's foggy right now and it says foggy. The strange thing here is that you don't really need the car to tell you the current weather because knowing that you are driving the car and being able to see what the weather is like would probably be more useful. It did show you the future weather, but I admit I like the idea of ​​the weather in the gauge cluster next to your time and temperature, it seems pretty logical. That said, one problem with weather on the gauge cluster is that it's not always exactly true, for example it now says cloudy and um well yeah, so maybe it needs a little more fine-tuning before you're really ready to go. start looking at that instead of looking at the actual weather while driving the car and then let's talk about the interior of the sonata, I have to say I'm a little mixed about this interior overall, it's a pretty nice place to be and there are a few points Really bright, for example, the turn signals feel good and look good with these types of beveled ends.
For them, also the climate controls, buttons and switches look and feel very good, but there are also some low points in this interior, for example, there is a lot of plastic on the dashboard, something textured that doesn't look so good. the center of the steering wheel, so this interior is kind of a mix of good and bad. I wouldn't call it the best in its class, but it's certainly far from the worst. It's a pretty decent place to spend time mixed in with some interesting buttons and switches. Here one is the shift lever, which is no longer a lever, but actually these four buttons on the center console you have left park, reverse, neutral and drive, and that's how you go between gears.
More and more cars are switching to these buttons. the shift paddles and the sonata is another and the next, another unusual control in this car is the heated and cooled seats because it's integrated into the climate controls, this little switch to the left and right of the climate controls climate will turn on or off. your heated or cooled seats you push up to turn on your heated seat keep pushing up for more and then push down to turn on your cooled seat same thing just keep pushing down for higher levels of cooled seat this It's by no means a problem and in fact, I think it makes intuitive sense to integrate the heated and cooled seat controls into the climate controls.
I just hadn't seen it before and thought it was worth mentioning and the next notable control on the center console is the drive mode switch. which is quite large, it's about two inches wide, strange considering not many Sonata owners will ever use it. One thing I like when you use that switch to go into sport mode, there's like an explosion in the gauge cluster, an explosion to indicate all the sport driving. you'll do it in your 180 horsepower sonata, and next, speaking of the gauge cluster, it's worth noting that it's a display that has no more analog gauges than the sonata.
You have a full screen here and it is reasonably configurable, although not as much as you could. Wait, considering it's a screen, some other automakers give you the ability to move things around and really configure the gauge cluster more depending on your preferences and then here's another interesting element of the gauge cluster if you get out of the car with the engine running and If you have the key with you, the car will turn off after 30 minutes and the moment you get out, a timer will appear in the gauge cluster to let you know how much time you have left until the car turns off.
I guess the theory here is that people may occasionally park their car and drive away forgetting to turn it off and don't want it to run out of gas or cause other problems, so there is an automatic shut-off feature after 30 minutes of driving. keyless idle and then we move on to The infotainment system, which in this car is quite good, it is very responsive, as you can see instantly, among the best I have seen, just like a telephonesmart, Tesla used to have a big advantage with touch responsiveness, but now basically every car manufacturer also has a really responsive infotainment screen, including this car, and you can see the navigation system.
It is very easy to move. It has a very simple pinch to zoom, just as you would expect on a smartphone map. You can also see that as you zoom out from your current map. position, shows the little line exactly how far the current map view is from where you are sitting in case you want to plan a trip and see how many miles it is. It's a cool little touch that I haven't seen before and next. It's worth knowing that in addition to being responsive, the infotainment screen is also very intuitive. Your home screen has these three panels.
You can set them to be basically whatever you want right now. It shows the map, radio and weather, but you can change those if you want, but then from there you can swipe and see all the other controls in a sort of smaller format for things you're less likely to use more frequently. It's a pretty good way to do it, it makes things easier and next we're going to talk about some of the interesting quirks and features of the infotainment system, including possibly the strangest configurable element I've ever seen, you're driving and you spray fluid windshield washer in a normal car, if you have the climate control set to send outside air into the cabin then you will smell this washer fluid, but in the sonata you can set the infotainment system to turn off the outside air temporarily after washing the windshield so the smell of the windshield washer fluid doesn't get into the car and after a few seconds I guess it goes back to normal and can send outside air back.
I've never seen that configurable before and I can't imagine what crazy letters Hyundai got to make that a feature, but it's one in case you really don't want to smell the washer fluid on those five. times a year when you use it and then another interesting sonata song, there is a blue light filter so when it gets dark you can limit the amount of blue light in the infotainment system to make it easier on your eyes and you can adjust it . How much do you want to limit blue light, which is a pretty cool feature? I haven't seen this on any other infotainment system except Hyundai models, but it can be good if you do a lot of night driving and reduces the strain on your Eye and then we move on to the back seat of the new Sonata, where the most Notable here is the fact that it is surprisingly spacious.
I have the front seats where I would sit. I am quite tall. I have more than enough space. I have plenty of head room for my knees back here, this is a good back seat, especially for a midsize sedan, it has plenty of room for most families other than the interior space back here, although there is literally nothing interesting in the back. rear seat of the sonata. The only thing that could be said to be slightly interesting is the fact that there is only one storage net on the back of the passenger seat, on the back of the driver's seat, you don't get it.
I see that in some cars I find that it is like that. It's a strange place to cut costs, but some companies do it and then we move on to the trunk of the sonata, which is actually a little annoying because there's no trunk release mechanism here, you have the car unlocked, there's nowhere to that you can go to open the trunk. From the outside, which is a bit annoying, but there is a feature in the infotainment system called smart trunk. If you turn it on, you can set the trunk to open whenever you approach it with the key in your pocket, so I'll do that.
Now except I've tried it for a few minutes here and it doesn't seem to work, so the only way to get into the trunk is with a button inside the car or by holding down the button on the key fob. It's not really ideal, but anyway, once you open the trunk with the remote, you'll see that it's a pretty standard trunk, roomier than you'd actually expect for a mid-size sedan, but a relatively average trunk. However, there are some interesting elements worth mentioning. here are little tabs that you can pull that will free up the back seats so you can fold them down.
The problem is that the tabs only release the seats, they don't fold them. You have to pull the tab and then walk to the back seat and folding the seat down is an annoying two step process that could be solved with just a tab, you pull it and the seat goes down. The other interesting thing with the trunk and the folding seats is that when the seats are down you can see. The trunk opening is actually relatively small, many cars have several inches more opening for this passage between the trunk and the seats for larger items, but in the Sonata for some reason it's a little tight on the sides. and it is much narrower than the trunk itself which seems strange now, another annoying thing about this trunk is closing it and I don't mean there isn't an electric trunk lock.
I wouldn't expect that at this price there is no latch or handle you can use to close the trunk on the inside to make sure your hands don't get dirty, so basically you have to close the trunk by touching the paint, if the car is dirty, you will get your hands dirty if the car is dirty. the car is clean then you will have fingerprints on your freshly washed car it's easy to do it right it's a shame this car doesn't do it now that being said with the trunk closed I really like the style of the rear of this car, you have this light bar that crosses the back, which is the new luxury vehicle trend and I also like to see it on the sonata and it looks very good in the dark, you can see this light bar illuminated very well, I think that the styling of the rear of this car is very distinctive in a good way, especially compared to the front, so those are the quirks and features of the 2020 hyundai sonata Limited.
Now it's time to take it out on the road and see how well it drives when you drive the new Sonata now. A couple of things I want to mention before we start experiencing driving. One of them I made fun of the engine options and it's a little ridiculous that the upgraded engine has less power, but there is a high performance version of this car coming called the n line. which is reported to have almost 300 horsepower should be pretty good and there will also be a hybrid version very soon in the next few months which will also be attractive to people who want better fuel economy so there will be more power options. engine another thing I want to mention, I want to talk a little bit about autonomous driving, this car has a pretty sophisticated autonomous driving system, now at higher speeds you have to touch the steering wheel from time to time, just like any other car that has a steering assist system, but I found that at lower speeds in bumper to bumper traffic the car did its job for a long time, slowing down and accelerating with traffic, if we stopped it would stop for 10 to 12 seconds and then restart, would drive really, really, great system for bumper to bumper traffic, steering, driving, braking, start, stop, one of the best I've seen, especially at this price, pretty strong experience wise Driving itself, I have to say to be honest.
It's pros and cons, let's put it that way, but the biggest drawback for me is definitely performance. For thirty five thousand dollars you can now buy a camry that does zero to sixty in about five point seconds, this car is way off the mark in terms of acceleration and performance, it feels slow, it's slow, especially at this price, and I understand that the Performance version is coming, but I think it will be almost like a year between the launch of the Sonata and the launch of the Performance version, while the Camry is launched with all its engines almost immediately, so which seems like for a while they're really holding back this lineup and shouldn't be with that, two really important things said, one, uh, it's very comfortable here.
The ride is very comfortable, very smooth, the seats are comfortable and plush, very supportive, good to sit on. It could use a little more thigh support but it's really not that big of a problem, this car is also unusually quiet for a midsize these days and especially at this price I've been surprised at how quiet it is, especially in terms of wind noise. Road noise. The tire is heard on average for a medium sized car, but the wind noise is not heard at all. There is no loud music from the cars around you. There is no construction noise. or planes flying overhead, it's pretty good at keeping those things away, as well as handling normal, fairly simple things, like any other mid-size car, not very athletic, you put it in sport mode, it tightens up the throttle response, it doesn't seem to do a lot.
Plus, this car has a lot of great benefits, a lot of wonderful things about it. It's just that not many people are interested in midsize sedans anymore. I have two and a half million views and I have my review of the Hyundai. Palisade, which is Hyundai's new midsize family SUV. I strongly suspect the Sonata won't fare as well. The market just isn't what it used to be, even five or six years ago, so that's the 2020 Hyundai Sonata. Beautiful, it's not fast, but it has some pretty compelling things, there's a lot of technology in this car, for example, and it's a pleasant and comfortable driving experience.
The price is quite reasonable, you get Hyundai's famous long warranty, and it has some pretty cool quirks and features. I was shopping for a midsize sedan this would definitely be on my short list and now it's time to give the new Sonata a Doug Score starting with the weekend categories and the styling is okay it could be better and it gets a 4 out of 10 Acceleration is 0-60 in 8.2 seconds, giving it a 1 out of 10. Handling is average for a mid-size sedan, getting a 4 out of 10. The fun factor is basically non-existent, that's not it. It's the goal for this car and it gets a 1 out of 10.
Finally a cool factor and once again there isn't one. This car has some interesting tricks, but ultimately it's just a family sedan and gets a 1 out of 10 for a total weekend score of 11 out of 50. Following are the diaries. categories and features, it is surprisingly well equipped and gets a 9 out of 10. Comfort is average for a car like this and gets a 6 out of 10. Quality is good, interior is only okay, but Hyundai's excellent warranty is good tranquillity. Note that it gets a 7 out of 10. Practicality is average for a midsize sedan and it gets a 6 out of 10. Finally, it's a value and this one is a good one, it has plenty of equipment and good interior space and a relatively affordable package. it just needs more power, it gets a 7 out of 10 for a total daily score of 35 out of 50.
The total score earned is 46 out of 100. I've never reviewed a family sedan before, but here's how it ranks against a Hay Many other family cars, the Sonata is great if you're interested in a midsize sedan, but as tastes shift toward crossover cars like this one they become less relevant to most buyers.

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