Hyundai has reinvented its best-selling Tucson crossover with a daring new 4×4-inspired search for its fifth era.
Revealed in a single day in Korea, the brand new Tucson is described as “bolder and extra sturdy” than right this moment’s automotive, which is without doubt one of the hottest mid-sized SUVs on sale, rating within the UK’s prime 10 best-selling automobiles for the previous 4 years in a row and changing into the world’s seventh-best-selling automotive in 2025.
The Toyota RAV4 rival’s chunky new look is in line with Hyundai‘s new Artwork of Metal design language, which was launched with the second-generation Nexo and can be rolled out throughout the line-up over the approaching years.
Defining options embrace an upright, two-box silhouette that departs from the outgoing automotive’s rounded type, and distinctive lighting signatures together with a brand new H-shaped motif at each ends fashioned by a slim, wraparound gentle bar and vertical daytime-running lights.
Dramatically swollen arches, decrease physique cladding and a distinguished skid plate, in the meantime, add a component of off-road flavouring and assist to provide the “steady stance attribute of an SUV”, says Hyundai.
At 4700mm lengthy, the brand new Tucson is a major 180mm longer than the present automotive, which successfully bumps it from the C-segment into the D-segment, the place it should extra immediately compete with the likes of the Skoda Kodiaq, Honda CR-V and Renault Austral.
It is also round 100mm longer between the axles, with a wheelbase of 2785mm, and 40mm wider, which Hyundai says means it affords “best-in-class inside house”.
Head room can be up within the second row by 29mm – most probably a results of the flatter roofline – and the again doorways now open wider to make it simpler to get out and in of.
The cabin itself is a dramatic departure from that of the present automotive, following the brand new Ioniq 3 in adopting a cleaner and extra minimalist remedy centred on a considerable touchscreen, with a slim digital show above the squared-off steering wheel stated to “minimise driver distraction”.
Hyundai has given no particulars but on which powertrains it should provide within the new Tucson; the present automotive affords the selection of gentle, full and plug-in hybrids, in addition to a less expensive pure-petrol engine.
