Hyundai Grandeur test drive since 2005 sedan
Formal business
Is it higher than Sonata? In the voice of the traffic police inspector, I felt obvious notes of doubt. Formally, the Hyundai Grandeur business sedan, of course, is higher, but in reality my answer was not very confident. The word Grandeur in English means wealth, luxury. Everything seems to converge, and the car looks very good. Remember, what was the luxurious back of the previous generation Grandeur: two tiers of the trunk lid, the shoulders of the wheeled arches? Now everything has become even more elegant, take a look at the stunning folds of the horsepower and the rear wings and successfully inscribed in the bumper of the ending of exhaust pipes. The jumper traditional for this model between two blocks of dimensions is also preserved.
But something is still missing. In my opinion, individuality. All modern Hyundai is very similar to each other. Needless to say, even Audi has not yet been able to solve a similar problem. In the absence of any large-scale landmark, it is hardly possible to understand what kind of car in front of you i40, Sonata, or still Grandeur. The latter, for example, compared to the sonata, is slightly wider than the headlight of the head light, and the chrome stripes coming on them are longer. Run with roulette and study nameplate? No, not for this the client will pay almost 2 million rubles for the business class sedan. The machine should be released in large strokes and be recognizable.
The interior pleases the eye with a cream tint, and the body with cool chairs and a convenient planting with outstretched legs and a floor gas pedal. It is a pity, a huge panoramic roof ate a lot of space above the head. Yes, and the littered front racks clearly do not help improve visibility. The steering wheel is lined with so slippery skin or its imitation that it is possible to turn it in the parking lot only for the insert a la piano varnish on the rim. The same finish on the central tunnel and selector of the 6-speed guidrotransformer machine of its own production is a miracle how good is. Firmly, monolithic and does not cause a feeling of cheapness, and the selector itself moves with German clarity.
Absolutely disappointed the multimedia system. The same functions are proven on both the sensory display and on the keys of the central console. Do you want to change the volume of music, while the reverse is included in the transmission and the rear view camera works? Unfortunately this is not possible. Would you like to listen to tracks from the flash drive? If you please, however, happy hours do not observe this only at the moment when it works for the radio. Infinity’s acoustics sound does not pull on a set consisting of 11 speakers and a subwoofer.
The instrument panel, on the contrary, is beautiful and informative and installed in such a successful position that it was not dreamed of most expensive cars, somewhere the speedometer is blocked by the steering wheel, then the fuel level indicator is not visible. In Hyundai, everything is visible.
On the go, Grandeur is not bad. Beautiful 10-spite wheels, shod in the dimensions of 245/40R19 (!) (For the machine in maximum configuration), suddenly mildly creep and do not sprinkle, like skis on asphalt. The turns of the Grander are confident, and perhaps the rolls are a little high, but the car overcomes irregularities, delicately and unobtrusively reminding passengers about the quality of the coating. I am sure that on more modest tires 225/55R17, the smoothness of the course will be completely exemplary.
The lightness of the steering wheel in a wide range of speeds creates the impression of the sharpness of the steering mechanism and a lightning -fast reaction to the work of a steering wheel. Nevertheless, it would not hurt to filter it even from minimal parasitic vibrations and fluctuations in response to the suspension. Hyundai Grandeur conquers the initial response to the gas pedal. The exactly invisible thread connects the mouse of your boot and the throttle of the throttle from the electric drive in combination with automatic KP sometimes fails and sports cars. Approximately in the middle of the course, the accelerator is strongly dumped, and then again after 5500 rpm. The 3-liter 250-horsepower engine seems to open a second wind. A solid sound, picking up this I want to feel again and again, especially since there are no complaints to the brakes, everything is predictable and effective.
The claim to sound insulation applies only to wheeled niches. At 130 km/h, the rumer from tires dominates all other sources of sound. But I am glad that aerodynamic noise at cruising speeds is almost imperceptible.
It is rare to think about where it is more pleasant to find yourself: driving or on the back sofa, but Grandeur is at a dead end. On a very comfortable second row of space with some kind of amazing margin, and the roof does not support the crown.
It turns out that the South Korean company has not decided on the main purpose of the sedan: whether Grandeur will act as a personal car or will go to the service in corporate parks. Comparison with competitors also raises questions, because the powerful 311-blue rear-wheel drive Cadillac CTS will cost 1,790,000 rubles, and the Volvo S80 T5 with a capacity of 231 liters. with. And a much better salon of 1,429,000 rubles, although options for the Swedish sedan, of course, are much more expensive.
Hyundai Grandeur, on the one hand, strictly satisfies all the formal requirements for a business class, but on the other hand, we have almost the same Sonata, only with a more powerful engine and additional options.
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