Hi everybody, I'm webby and welcome to another car review today. I'm going to be showing you
around the brand new 2021 Hyundai Tucson. Today, we've actually got the highlander top of the
range model, so just before we get started on the front styling of the car, if this is your
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so let's get started with the front of the car then, so being that this is the highlander model,
the new front grille is in this dark chrome finish, which I think looks really smart.
We've got these led daytime running lights. They've also got led headlights down here as well;
we've also got other things like front parking sensors; we've got the front camera there in the
front of the grille as well and the actual general design overall I think is really good looking
it looks sort of fairly upmarket. It does look a little bit different to everything out there on
the market as well, so it's very recognizable this is the new Tucson from Hyundai. when you
look at the car from a side profile the styling is very angular you've got all the lines coming
in down here from the front wing all the way down here it then angles down towards the bottom of the
car at the front of the car and then we've got the same at the back where this line comes down from
the bottom all the way up to the top of the door handles and then down towards the rear tailgate
if you look at it from the side profile it does look very similar to a toyota rav4 because you've
got these plastic sections around the wheel arches which are sort of very squared off in their design
so when you look at this in a side profile next to the rav4 very very similar
now being this is the highlander model we get nice things like 19-inch alloy wheels as standard
we've also got things like rear privacy glass we've got keyless entry uh the door mirrors
fold in when you lock the car and then one other thing i do quite like is this chrome strip that
runs all the way from the front of the car all the way along the side and then opens up to this
nice sort of sharper angular section at the back i think that's actually quite a nice design cue.
rear styling is also very impressive on this new tucson this highlander model gets led rear brake
lights we've also got this light bar which runs all the way across from one side to the other
so it's very distinctive when you're behind the car you can tell that this is the new tucson
the rear wiper is also hidden all the way up here under the rear brake light
and you get a nice hyundai badge just on the tailgate instead where the rear wiper would
normally go there are three engine options with this new tucson starting off with what we've got
here today which is the two liter petrol engine that develops 115 kilowatt and 192 newton meters
of torque runs exclusively through the front wheels and has a six-speed automatic gearbox
when you go to the elite and highlander models you have the option of front-wheel drive and
all-wheel drive it also then brings in a 1.6 liter turbocharged petrol engine which develops
132 kilowatt and 265 newton meters of torque that engine has a seven speed dual clutch transmission
if you're after diesel there's one option available again with front-wheel drive and
all-wheel drive and that's a two-liter engine with 137 kilowatt and 416 newton meters of torque
and so choice of front-wheel drive or wheel drive and that's got an eight-speed automatic gearbox
now when you come inside the new tucson you can also see where a lot of money has been spent
on the new redesign when you look at all the new sweeping dashboard with the
10.25 inch digital display in front of the driver you get another 10.25 inch display there for your
satellite navigation and just below that is a digital screen for your air conditioning
but when you look at the design of the car you can see how the door trims sweep around
all the way to the dashboard all the way across the top and then out to the other
side of the door as well so it's actually really impressive looking place to be
this lighter cream interior is one of two options available obviously you can get black as well but
i like this sort of lighter interior it makes it feel very spacious inside it also feels quite
premium as well the lightness is added to the fact that we've got this standard panoramic sunroof
with obviously an electric interior blind but makes for a very light and airy cabin
the driver gets things like electrically adjustable seats including lump support
and up here on the door we've got the buttons for the preset memories as well the highlander
model also gets this bose surround sound system as well which sounds pretty impressive
and i do like the design of this new steering wheel and i think it's quite nice compared to
your normal sort of three spoke designs these days and just makes it feel very luxurious inside
so as standard we get this 10.25 inch digital instrument cluster which is seen throughout a
couple of other hyundai models but the thing i like about it is how nice and clear it is it's
very uncluttered and nice and simple to use and does look quite up market at the same time as well
so coming to the center console we can see the 10.25 inch infotainment display
again that's a very familiar unit because we've seen that in previous models that i drove recently
so things like the Kona electric that i had very recently had that system in it as well just below
we've then got the digital display for the climate control and then going a little bit further down
we've got some power points there so we've got a couple of usbs incidentally i've found out
this one on the left is the only one that will do apple carplay whereas this one on the right-hand
side is purely just used for charging you've then also got a 12-volt power point in there
as well and then you've got a tray down here that does wireless charging for your smartphone
uh we've got a standard gear selector there
as normal we've then got some buttons down in here as well so we've got the electronic handbrake
which has got an automatic hold function we've got downhill descent control a button that will
allow you to turn off your parking sensors and then one that changes the view of the front and
rear cameras then the buttons here just by the armrest control the heated and ventilated seats
for the driver's side we've then got the heated steering wheel which has been fabulous these
really cold mornings and then the heated and air conditioned seats for the passenger side
this button here will open up the center armrest where you've got absolutely heaps of storage which
is really good come into the back of the tucson and there's a really generous amount of space here
as well i can stretch my legs out perfectly well i can fit my feet underneath the seat in front of me
and visibility is really good as well so as a rear passenger you don't feel claustrophobic
and all squashed in like you do in some other cars it's nice to see that we've got air vents in the
back here as well and also down the bottom we've got a couple of usb charging points
which has been quite handy for charging my batteries on my gopro
We've also got a couple of nets on the backs of the front seats;
we've got the obligatory fold-down armrest, which has got a couple of cup holders in here as well
headspace is reasonable too, even though we've got the panoramic sunroof in this model,
so it's actually a really nice place to be back here in the back and the other nice feature that
you won't find in many other manufacturers cars in the back is you've got heated rear seats for
the outer two rear passengers, and that's something that's really rare these days.
all right, so we're in out of the cold now we'll take this car for a drive see what she's like, and
then I'll talk about some of the other features inside the car as well as we're driving along
as soon as you start driving you do feel that luxury feel that I keep talking about
it does feel very upmarket in here and definitely a big improvement over the previous Tucson
it's actually got some nice handy little features too with the sun visor when you open it you've got
this section at the end that extends so on a day like today when the sun's quite low in the sky
you can actually block out that little section there which is always the bit that gets missed
the driving position is really nice the seats are super comfortable
the steering wheel feels nice in your hand, and it's nicely weighted as well when you're driving,
and the visibility in front is really good too
I think the only thing missing from the interior of this car is having a head-up display,
even the little Kona electric highlander I had recently that had a head-up display,
so it seems strange that it's missing from this Tucson model.
it does feel nice and quiet in here as well; um, you don't get a lot of road noise coming
through or tyre noise coming through into the cabin, um, so it's another thing that
adds to that sort of premium feel of the car when you're actually driving along
it's a very easy car to drive the steering is nice and light
but it doesn't feel disconnected from the front wheels um there's still a nice amount of weight,
so you actually know what's happening when you turn the steering wheel
some of the things I really do like about this car is things like the heated seats the heated
steering wheel, uh particularly on some of the cold mornings we've had recently here in
Melbourne safety equipment, as you'd expect,
is really well covered autonomous braking lane-keeping aid adaptive cruise control blind
spot monitor front and rear cameras rear sensors front sensors um it really has got everything
covered It's even got seven airbags with one airbag popping up between the front two seats
There are a couple of bits that annoy me about this car, though and not just the lack of a
head-up display. Hyundai's lane-keeping system is a little bit over-eager to keep
adjusting the steering wheel as you're driving along, so I tend to turn it off because
I do find it quite annoying but to turn it off every time you want to do it and every
time you get in the car you've got to go into the menus on the infotainment screen
to actually turn it off every single time which does get a bit tedious if I'm honest.
around town, this two-litre petrol engine is actually not too bad, but when you get out
on the freeway, it does definitely lack a little bit of grunt to keep you going
when you're joining the freeway when you want to do overtaking or going up a hill
you definitely feel like you need a bit more power the 1.6 turbo would definitely give you
that extra power that you need but my choice would be the two-litre turbo diesel um the extra torque
you get from the engine um whilst at the same time you get decent fuel economy
as with every other Hyundai, you get a five-year unlimited k warranty um, but
they also do some pre-paid service plans as well just to help keep the cost of maintenance down
I think it'd also be nice if they brought out either a plug-in hybrid or a full-electric version
of this um to sort of challenge things out between rav4 hybrid um and other models like that because
you know what cars seem to be going that way and plug-in hybrids electric cars
um so yeah it'd be nice if Hyundai actually brought that out over here in Australia.
Pricing for this highlander model starts at a really reasonable forty-six thousand dollars
plus on-road costs that's for the two-litre engine which we've got here today if you went for the 1.6
turbo petrol that starts at 50 000 and if you go for the two-litre turbo diesel that starts
at 52 000. remember they're plus on-road costs, so you're looking at sort of early 50s for two-litre
mid-50s for the 1.6 turbo and then sort of towards the later 50s um driveway for that two-litre turbo
diesel which to me sounds really good value for money because the amount of equipment
you get on this car as standard the warranty the optional sort of service plans you can buy
as an overall package it works really really well and so the fact that it feels so luxurious
and premium inside um makes for a really sort of compelling argument in the mid-range SUV market
So that brings us to an end to the video for this 2021 Hyundai Tucson; if you're in the market for
a medium SUV, definitely have a look at one of these; they are such a fantastic little car.
I would recommend at least the 1.6 turbo petrol engine or the two-litre diesel.
They've just got a little bit more get up and go than the base model two-litre petrol
having said that specification wise fantastic can't really fault it excellent value for money
um definitely go and have a look at one if you are thinking of getting one of these types of car
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