HYUNDAI makes all kinds of automobiles for all kinds of individuals.
Like Ford used to do.
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The £15k i10 is a corking little runaround for younger and previous. Outgrow that and there’s the i20 hatchback and the even-bigger-still i30 – plus correct enjoyable sporty variations known as i20 N and i30 N.
There’s a household of crossovers in sizes S/M/L – Kona, Tucson and Santa Fe.
Kona is petrol hybrid or EV. Your selection.
The mega-selling Tucson and seven-seat Santa Fe have plug-in hybrid variations that may do all of it with ease: Lengthy-haul journeys house to the household and quick runs round city on battery energy alone.
Then there’s the Ioniq electrical automobile household. Ioniq 5 is a sci-fi hatch and Ioniq 6 is an arc-shaped saloon.
They’ve pixel lights impressed by Eighties video video games and super-fast charging tech matched solely by Porsche and Audi. And sister agency Kia, in fact.
The box-fresh Ioniq 5 N is a face- melting 650hp and High Gear’s Automotive of the 12 months. Ioniq 7 is an enormous, boxy SUV coming in 2025.
Like I stated, Hyundai does considered one of every little thing, for each price range.
Kia apart, the one different producer with this stretch of motors is Toyota. However Toyota has been slower to get into electrical.
Proper, let’s focus on the brand new Kona Electrical pictured right here. The previous one was fugly. This one isn’t fugly. But it surely’s nonetheless not stunning.
Though it has adopted the pixel lights from the Ioniq automobiles, which is cool however complicated.
It’s additionally somewhat greater than earlier than.
You’ll like the additional boot area. Your youngsters will like the additional knee room within the again and the flat ground.
Up entrance, every little thing is precisely the way you’d need it to be. There’s a good mixture of screens and buttons. The seats are squishy. There’s plenty of storage for telephones and drinks and the same old ins and outs.
If you will be caught in visitors, it is a good place to be.
Like Ioniq 5 and 6, you would possibly discover the same old Hyundai badge on the steering wheel has been changed by 4 dots – which is Morse code for H.
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Additionally like Ioniq 5 and 6, there’s a three-pin plug socket within the again. Which is helpful for a kettle or an air pump.
And you may cost one other EV together with your Kona, ought to they run out of juice in the midst of nowhere.
Intelligent stuff.
Kona is on the market in two battery sizes. The 48kWh model at £34,995 and this 65kWh long-range model at £38,595.
Each have warmth pumps, making vary a lot simpler to foretell in winter.
However I’d go for the 65kWh for an additional tenner per week on finance.
Not able to go electrical but?
The 1-litre petrol Kona begins at £25,725. Cheery 120hp and 48mpg.
You possibly can have one outdoors your entrance door from £295 a month.
Like I stated, it’s good to have the selection.
The i10 is £198 a month.
