2024 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid refresh will embrace sporty facet

Hyundai on Sunday previewed the course of a mid-cycle refresh due for the midsize Sonata sedan—and Sonata Hybrid—for the 2024 mannequin yr, with further particulars as a consequence of be revealed on March 30.

Hyundai describes the refresh as “greater than a easy facelift for the present technology of the midsize Sonata sedan, which arrived in early 2020 in Sonata Hybrid guise, after a slightly conservatively styled earlier technology Sonata that had arrived for 2016.

With this new look, the super-aero look will get a little bit extra aggressive, in keeping with Hyundai, with an exterior influenced by the automaker’s performance-oriented N Line, maximizing the low-slung look and low entrance finish. 

2024 Hyundai Sonata

2024 Hyundai Sonata

2024 Hyundai Sonata

The important thing to creating the 2024 Sonata Hybrid look contemporary from the surface seems to be the skinny strip of outstanding horizontal lighting in entrance—and a transfer from the trapezoidal-grille look that has distinguished the Sonata for the previous a number of generations. With it comes a broadened horizontal emphasis to the lighting in again. 

Alongside the car, the designed-in vent is an odd design element, however it matches in as a cue that opens out to the beltline that extends to the again of the car.

From an interface standpoint, probably the most noteworthy change is Hyundai’s resolution to maneuver the shift lever behind the steering wheel—to create extra space within the heart console space, it says. Enabled by this, the console will get a brand new palm relaxation for the driving force, extending the armrest, in addition to a big cupholder and tray. However simply as noteworthy is that Hyundai hasn’t achieved away with an array of arduous buttons for the necessities—or a quantity knob. 

The Sonata will get a brand new twist on the model’s 12.3-inch twin shows, with a panoramic curved interface, and under the display house the instrument panel emphasizes the horizontal. 

2024 Hyundai Sonata

Hyundai additionally notes that the cabin has been upgraded with new shade mixtures to emphasise the sporty and premium sides of the Sonata without delay. 

Since this technology of Sonata Hybrid was launched, the competitors hasn’t modified a lot. Main rivals nonetheless embrace the Toyota Camry Hybrid, though a brand new 2023 Honda Accord Hybrid is a possible disruptor. The 2023 Sonata Hybrid earns an EPA mixed 47 mpg mixed—and we’ve noticed that freeway effectivity is a forte.

2024 Hyundai Sonata

Inside and outside, there are tie-overs to Hyundai’s Ioniq 6 electrical sedan—a sign, maybe, that the automaker doesn’t see EV and ICE design as mutually unique.