2023 Hyundai Grandeur revealed | CarExpert

Keep in mind the Hyundai Grandeur? It was the corporate’s flagship sedan in Australia between 1999 to 2011 throughout a number of product generations.

Whereas it was retired from native showrooms, the nameplate troopers on at residence in Korea, with a model new model revealed in a single day.

As soon as once more the Grandeur might be known as Azera in export markets.

Earlier than we get into it, there’s no probability of this seventh-generation Grandeur/Azera coming to Australia – we checked in with the model’s native arm.

The all-new mannequin comes six years after the sixth technology launched in 2016, and boy is it some departure.

Regardless of the futuristic look, its engines are old-school inside combustion – to start out with at the least. Choices embody a 2.5-litre four-cylinder petrol, a 3.5-litre six-cylinder petrol, and a 1.6-litre petrol-electric hybrid.

“We’re creating a brand new commonplace for the premium sedan market by means of emotive design and a refined buyer expertise,” reckons Head of Hyundai’s Design Middle SangYup Lee.

“The seventh-generation Grandeur expresses our respect for the previous and dedication to maneuver on to the longer term.”

Up entrance there’s a little bit of Staria in regards to the full-width slim gentle bar – “impressed by the primary gentle of daybreak” – above the parametric-patterned-mesh grille, flanked by rounded-square decrease lights.

The facet profile is outlined by a single character line working horizontally from headlight to tail-light, over clear and uncluttered flanks, with frameless doorways and flush handles.

Slightly than a conventional three-box form, the D-pillar has a gentler slope to lend a fastback silhouette. That is positioned behind the outstanding body-coloured C-pillar, which means there’s a 3rd facet window.

The entrance gentle bar’s ‘Seamless Horizon’ design ethos can also be utilized to the full-width rear lighting, considerably harking back to the i30 sedan however a lot thinner.

The cabin is billed as “an oasis for leisure and restoration”.

Ambient temper lighting spreads softly throughout the door trim and the entrance of the dashboard, and interactive lighting on the higher proper of the show gives “a brand new consumer expertise”.

Particulars on the door trim are designed with “a fragile Korean aesthetic,” the corporate provides.

Designers used actual wooden, aluminium, and naturally dyed Nappa leather-based quilted in a conventional Korean sample.

The American-car-inspired steering wheel was apparently impressed by the single-spoke design of the first-generation Grandeur, whereas the gear shifter curiously sits on the column.

Multimedia shows on two screens sharing a single body, under which sits a slim financial institution of shortcut buttons and dials, and what appears like a haptic touchscreen for local weather controls.

Hyundai Australia’s sedan vary contains the i30 and Sonata, plus the Genesis G70 and G80. The Ioniq 6 EV sedan will launch in early 2023.

What do you reckon? Is the brand new Grandeur’s design a winner?