What sort of automobile is the 2023 Hyundai Tucson? What does it evaluate to?

The Tucson five-seat crossover SUV squares off towards different compact bestsellers, together with the Toyota RAV4, Honda CR-V, Nissan Rogue, and Ford Escape.

Is the 2023 Hyundai Tucson a superb automobile?

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The newest Tucson earns a TCC ranking of 6.7 out of 10, resulting from robust expertise choices, a snug and roomy inside, and plentiful security options. Holding again the Tucson are a middling gas economic system rating, based mostly on the gasoline model, and a four-star general crash ranking from the NHTSA. (Learn extra about how we fee vehicles.)

What’s new for the 2023 Hyundai Tucson?

The Tucson SEL not provides the Premium Package deal. Artificial leather-based upholstery now covers the seats on the SEL (and SEL Hybrid) with the Comfort Package deal in addition to the XRT. Lastly, the ten.3-inch touchscreen now comes customary on the XRT, N Line, and Restricted fashions—and on SEL Comfort and Restricted Hybrids and Plug-In Hybrids.

The newest Tucson has ditched the nameless form it wore for generations. Now, it’s all folds and creases, a radical piece of origami in a distinct segment that veers towards SUV clichés when it veers in any respect. The hanging grille wears a puffy-jacket texture and hides LED lighting that emerges solely when it glows. With its honed and chamfered sides, it’s labored out an 8-bit CrossFit physique, with a metallic spline that runs throughout the roofline like Oakleys worn backward. It has our full consideration outdoors, however inside it’s a extra subdued piece of labor. An enormous touchscreen dominates a flat, plain monolithic heart console lined in shiny trim that lures fingerprints out of hiding. The purpose of the cockpit is its digital shows, principally for the higher—their interfaces are clear and straightforward to understand.

The Tucson runs the gamut of powertrains from a 187-hp 2.5-liter inline-4 and an 8-speed computerized—in front- or all-wheel drive— to a hybrid 1.6-liter turbo-4 coupled to a 6-speed computerized that places out 226 hp. In both case, the Tucson’s succesful suspension damps its physique motions nicely, and its steering has well timed responses if not a variety of really feel till it’s clicked into Sport mode. The very best Tucson is the priciest: the Plug-In Hybrid can drive 32 miles on battery energy alone from an upsized 13.8-kwh pack, and its web 261 hp feels robust and certain.

With loads of room for 4 adults and about 40 cubic toes of cargo, the Tucson has grown right into a head-on rival for automobiles just like the CR-V. It wants a finer grade of inside trim for a knockout blow: the inside’s digital shows solid a shadow on the plain grades of plastic it wears from the door caps on down.

The Tucson has customary computerized emergency braking and computerized excessive beams; SELs get lively lane management and blind-spot screens. Adaptive cruise management, blind-spot steering help, and a surround-view digital camera system come on higher-end fashions. Base Tucsons have an 8.0-inch touchscreen with wi-fi Apple CarPlay and wired Android Auto. Bose premium audio and computerized local weather management can be found, as is a ten.3-inch touchscreen with wired-only smartphone help.

How a lot does the 2023 Hyundai Tucson price?

The Tucson is obtainable in 4 trim ranges for gasoline fashions (SE, SEL, N-Line, and Restricted) and three for the Tucson hybrid (Blue, SEL Comfort, and Restricted). Costs for 2023 haven’t been confirmed, however will doubtless rise from final 12 months’s base worth of $26,135. The Tucson SEL represents one of the best worth at $27,685 in 2022 {dollars}—or a pair thousand extra in hybrid spec. It’s attainable to spend greater than $45,000 on a Tucson Plug-In Hybrid.

The place is the 2023 Hyundai Tucson made?

Hyundai builds some gas-powered Tucsons in Montgomery, Alabama, and different variations in Ulsan, South Korea.