2017 Hyundai Sonata 2.0 Elegance

Take a look at videos featuring traffic in South Korea and you will find that 90% of cars are in silver, white, grey, or black. The cars of Seoul tend to lack some (ahem) soul and if you ever spot a car in a bright shade, they are usually taxis. The most common taxi model is the Hyundai Sonata and following the launch of the facelifted eighth-generation DN8 model in 2023, the taxi version has just given an update for the South Korean market. Unlike the regular Sonata, the Sonata Taxi is imported

As this blue and green third rock from the sun completes its orbit around the pulsating red giant heat sphere, another year passes. 2023 could also see another record-breaking year of automotive sales in Malaysia. Still, as we get accustomed to writing 2024 (or 2023A for the superstitious) on our calendar dates, we also would like to remember the key models that did not make it. Bar certain variants that have been discontinued like the Mazda 3 1.5-litre variants and the Volkswagen Golf R-Line, w

Despite Hyundai focusing more on its growing lineup of SUVs and the range of Ioniq electric vehicles (EVs), the evergreen Hyundai Sonata is not exactly forgotten by the italic H brand as it has unveiled a facelift of the D-segment sedan. Currently in its eighth generation, the DN8 2023 Hyundai Sonata facelift receives a sportier exterior design and a new badge. The pre-facelift was introduced in 2019 when the Sonata was “reborn” as a stylish four-door coupe. The Sonata’s low-slung exterior exemp

Sales of the Hyundai Sonata, once Korea’s most popular model, has been falling to dangerously low levels. The Hyundai Motor Group’s Asan plant, which makes the Sonata, is sitting idle for one week as inventories of the slow-selling Sonata are piling up at dealers. Production will only resume on Monday, 15th of March. Hyundai ended 2020 with 48,067 units of the Sonata sold, down 26.3 percent from the year before. Covid-19 was not an issue as Korea was one of the few major automotive market in the

After 8 generations, the Hyundai Sonata may have reached the end of the road, as a report by South Korean publication Chosun mentioned that Hyundai has no plans to develop a next-generation model. According to a Hyundai Motor official, “The development project for the DN9, the next-generation Sonata model, is not in progress.” DN9 is the codenamed for a vehicle based in Hyundai Motor Company. D stands for D-segment mode, while N stands for sedan. 9 would mean the 9th generation of the Sonata. Th

According to USA’s J.D Power IQS survey, the highest quality car is not made Mercedes-Benz or Lexus, but Hyundai’s Genesis brand, which has unseated Toyota’s Lexus to claim to the top spot for the last four years. In Europe - the spiritual homeground for good handling cars - the Hyundai i30N is now more popular than the BMW M135i, and it's rated higher by the automotive press there too. Hyundai cars don’t just match the best of Germany and Japan - they are actually better. It is hard to imagine