Test Drive Hyundai XG 2003 - 2005 Sedan
Filled for half aole
They say in the people - you see a black cruiser with chrome nostrils or an eye, when you have the right or shut off - these bad karma. In the case of Hyundai XG, the rule does not work: the big black Korean Limo brother and bourgeois establishment will not interest. For them, he is too cheap. Why buy a tie for $ 200, if a boutique across the road trades by $ 500? Is it worth uploading $ 25,000 for incomprehensible Hyundai XG if you can throw another fourth and take the right bomb or ends of Merin, like everyone else? In general, trouble with these status cars.
In white pants
Hyundai XG - a car prominent. It would be difficult to say, choked olina Nucchio Berton or not, seeing this car on the streets of Turin, but one clearly accurately - this Korean wants to be important. Front of the future owner meets a spill-up chrome grid, which is part of a large and relief hood. On both sides, there are two round light elements on both sides of it. This is a rather non-digital stroke, an element of garage handicraft in the appearance of the car. He is not so striking if the car is painted with silver metallic, but we got black, like a miner into a slaughter, car. Against this background, there were a chance to stand out multiple chrome details - inserts in bumpers, moldings, stylish door handles. Practicing policies will appreciate the other attribute of the Russian authorities - the yellow fog integrated into the front bumper.
I do not know whether Korean designers smoked for a long time before deciding to establish such original separate mirrors instead of ordinary lops, but this move clearly adds the car of the individuality. Finally, they have undermined their health, most likely, on beamless doors, but believe me, it was worth it to be spent nerves and feeded pencils. Similar - a little not from this life. We must see - lower the glass, open the door and feel like a heavy car turns into a beautiful one. Made in Korea, but in the air already the fragrance of the real Dolce Vita. Wide rear racks flowing into the trunk line form the back of the machine, organic and not overloaded. A little spoil the impression of red reflectors - we argued for a long time, whether it was a stylist's hand, or simply the requirements of traffic rules in Korea so intolepima to appearance. Communted on the second. We note this inconspicuous detail as the XG signboard on the lid of the trunk. Even he has its own character and is made of metal, unlike conventional plastics, which competitors spend on this. 
Where the legs are growing from Since most Korean cars are relatively young, their pedigree is easily traced. So in Hyundai XG, the features of the licensed Japanese Mitsubishi DebonAir are guessed, though thoroughly thrown. Host to already survive one restyling, XG also responds to the name GRANDEUR. Among the machines for the Korean elite, which produces Hyundai, it is the most modest. In any case, compared to Hyundai Dynasty and Hyundai Centennial. The premiere of Hyundai XG as a prototype took place in 1998 in Paris, and the serial car lit up several months later at the Seoul Motor Show. The car is designed on the Hyundai Sonata platform with an elongated on a 50 mm base and 165 mm dimensional length.
Life inside
Big outside, huge inside XG allows you to feel like a full-fledged owner of the kingdom of comfort from light creamy skin and sophisticated wooden panels. Introduce on the seat and finding new adjustments, so I want to exclaim: God, bless Korea with her generous marketers! Truly, nor any automakers, except for these, will not let you feel richer than you are.
Close the door, and in the usual place to the left of you will appear the power window control unit, rearview mirrors and the memory of the driver's seat of the driver's seat. The front seats themselves are a wide space for creativity - some positions of the lumbar backrest three! Between the driver and the passenger placed the armrest, inside which, thanks to the double bottom, you can place a lot of things with any little things. Perhaps only it, and the lid of the glove box is devoid of microlifets, many of which will help you open the veil of secrets over other hidden capacities in a wide central console. The design of the driver's workplace is carefully thought out and pleases the availability of air - free places not occupied by individual buttons and levers. All control of climate control and stereo system is condensed in one large block in the center of the panel. Finding with him a common language is simple enough, since all the characters are easy to read and understand. It was possible to identify only one disadvantage - in sunny weather the screen is easily folded and becomes almost blind. Located slightly above the screen of the on-board computer possesses the same disadvantage, but the interface with it is even simpler and
Friendly. It works in three main modes: Distance (traveled path), Kilometers to Empty (number of kilometers to complete tank emptying), Average Speed \u200b\u200b(average speed), Drive Time. The display is so convenient that the eyes without any hurry find the necessary information themselves. Under the smooth line of the visor, the instrument panel - large dials of the speedometer and the tachometer, on the sides - the temperature pointer to the coolant temperature and the amount of gasoline. After the motor comes to comes and numerous additional characters will be lit, exactly in the middle will seem the scale of the transmission operation mode. Instead of the usual digital, it has a LED mode of operation - a diode is lit next to the number - and it first inappropriately unusual. Thanks to the adjustment, the steering wheel will undermine your position for you, and, in addition to its usual functions, will allow you to manage the operation of the on-board computer.
In addition to the air conditioner, which is included in the climatic installation, set the desired temperature will help the hatch in the roof operating in two standard modes. Life succeeded! - With full right exclaims the passenger, which was at the back seat of Hyundai XG. After all, so freely, he probably did not sit anywhere, even if he is the happy owner of BMW 523i or MB E-Class. Subjective sensations are confirmed by pieces of facts - XG and wider, and longer than their classmates. And in terms of comfort, he does not lag behind the famous Germans - a comfortable rear seat is molded for two, although it has three headrests. The average part is little adapted for riding long distances - in its back, a convenient armrest, in which the container is hidden and the container and the coaster on the microlift.
In the height of XG loses both BMW and MB, but thanks to the thoughtful landing of the front passengers and a special wave-like ledge in the back of the ceiling, even the tall passengers should not be afraid of their preservation. Technique - Koreans!
Under the hood at the Korean borrowed from Hyundai Sonata 2.5-liter V-shaped six with a capacity of 163 liters. With. Losing to its competitors at maximum speed, the car takes a good torque - 230 nm at 3750 rpm. But the main advantage of this car is not in the motor, but in the amazing 5-band automatic Tiptronic transmission from ZF. Developed jointly with Porsche AG specialists, this sequental automaton bribes the lack of thoughtfulness when switching, allowing the motor to fully realize its power. This is confirmed by the dynamic data: until hundreds of car accelerates only 9.1 seconds! Hyundai XG is an unpaulous car, with an excellent car challenge, which contributes to a completely independent suspension with springs as elastic elements.
Turns are overcome with moderate rolls, small and medium irregularities overcome gently, but large already force the body to sensitively shudder. The heavy steering wheel equipped with a hydraulicer has a good return effort, although not ideal. In addition, the machine in the standard is equipped with a disconnected traction and cruise control, and the first system also performs a dynamic stabilization mission. Stop the car in time without losing communication with the road, drive disc brakes on all wheels, ABS and wide tires Kumho Powermax 205/65 R15.
A source: Magazine "Wheels" [№49 / 2001]
