Hyundai: Sonata News
04-27-2009, 10:44 AM
#241
What Would Don Draper Do?
This time last year when I heard that there was going to be a new, redisigned Sonata for the 2011 MY, I got excited.
So excited that I started cranking out renderings of what I thought the Sonata should look like. Then when I heard that it was going to take the theme of a "four-door-coupe" I got even more excited. Well, I have here what looks to be another rendering of the 2011 Hyundai Sonata.
I found this rendering on YFlove.net, and also found an interior shot of the center stack. These few pictures are really making me smile.
What do you make of the rendering? Do you think that it will have this general design?
http://www.autospies.com/news/2011-H...g-Sharp-43333/
Besides this rendering, www.yflove.net has real life spy shots of the Sonata that I'm posting. It seems that the spy shots hold true to it... to me, it looks like an updated last gen ES with MB CL550ized styling...
So excited that I started cranking out renderings of what I thought the Sonata should look like. Then when I heard that it was going to take the theme of a "four-door-coupe" I got even more excited. Well, I have here what looks to be another rendering of the 2011 Hyundai Sonata.
I found this rendering on YFlove.net, and also found an interior shot of the center stack. These few pictures are really making me smile.
What do you make of the rendering? Do you think that it will have this general design?
http://www.autospies.com/news/2011-H...g-Sharp-43333/
Besides this rendering, www.yflove.net has real life spy shots of the Sonata that I'm posting. It seems that the spy shots hold true to it... to me, it looks like an updated last gen ES with MB CL550ized styling...
see a bit of the ES350 in it, which would make sense.
like it.
07-08-2009, 09:39 AM
#242
I shoot people
07-08-2009, 10:48 AM
#246
I shoot people
07-08-2009, 11:31 AM
#247
The sizzle in the Steak
not bad
07-08-2009, 02:28 PM
#250
Chloe @ 17mo
07-08-2009, 03:43 PM
#254
I shoot people
07-08-2009, 05:07 PM
#256
^ I'm not saying anything.
and sonatas are priced extremely well
07-08-2009, 08:20 PM
#259
2G TLX-S
07-09-2009, 02:27 AM
#261
Race Director
At first glimpse of the first pic I thought the car got the Arabian desert protection plan - folks who take their cars on the highway get this thick coat of soap like substance put on most of the front of the car to protect it from the sand blasting effect of driving throught the desert at high speeds. Once done with the trip you just take a water hose to it and it's gone. I was obviosuly wrong and it happens that Hyundai is too cheap to have a proper camo for the car and resorted to a bunch of duct tape - cutting corners where ever possible. 
Gotta see it in real life to make judgements - the interiror looks good tho the current version is already good enough. And of course then there's the issue of drivetrains and how it handles.
Gotta see it in real life to make judgements - the interiror looks good tho the current version is already good enough. And of course then there's the issue of drivetrains and how it handles.
07-09-2009, 10:47 AM
#263
I shoot people
Then again sometimes originality (like the new TL) = FAIL
07-11-2009, 01:48 AM
#264
Three Wheelin'
One of my colleagues recently bought a loaded 2009 Sonata as a commuter and it's not a bad car. He liked my 2008 TSX and decided to buy the same color scheme (black with a parchment-colored interior). Then I noticed how similar his interior was to mine - Hyundai clearly benchmarked Acura's interiors (the doors and center console are exactly 1st-gen TSX):
The more I'm in his car, the more I see where they saved money...the navigation's voice sounds like she's a freakin' robot and the quality of many of the materials is not on par with even the Chevy Malibus (I had a Malibu rental for a week).
And yes, I too think this new Sonata looks like a previous-gen Lexus ES (which is not necessarily a good thing). So is Hyundai getting better? Yes. Do they get kudos for originality? Not so much
The more I'm in his car, the more I see where they saved money...the navigation's voice sounds like she's a freakin' robot and the quality of many of the materials is not on par with even the Chevy Malibus (I had a Malibu rental for a week).
And yes, I too think this new Sonata looks like a previous-gen Lexus ES (which is not necessarily a good thing). So is Hyundai getting better? Yes. Do they get kudos for originality? Not so much
08-21-2009, 01:09 PM
#266
The sizzle in the Steak
It's a convertible!!!!!! 
Looks ES350-ish......looks better than Accord, Camry, Altima, 6.
Looks ES350-ish......looks better than Accord, Camry, Altima, 6.
08-21-2009, 02:27 PM
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Very nice!
If you look at the exterior, it looks nothing like other cars out there right now.
There is no cars right now that has that kind of aggresive looking headlight, and taillights. Very original.
But, I am pretty sure some haters will say that the new Sonata copied other cars just because they are a Hyundai....
They will try so hard to find slight resemblance of other cars, and when they do, Hyundia automatically copied them. What they dont realize is that if they use the same standards to other cars, THEY ALL RESEMBLE OTHER CARS IN SOME WAY OR ANOTHER
Once again, I love the oversized yet attractive and aggresive looking headlight and the sharp looking taillights.
If you look at the exterior, it looks nothing like other cars out there right now.
There is no cars right now that has that kind of aggresive looking headlight, and taillights. Very original.
But, I am pretty sure some haters will say that the new Sonata copied other cars just because they are a Hyundai....
They will try so hard to find slight resemblance of other cars, and when they do, Hyundia automatically copied them. What they dont realize is that if they use the same standards to other cars, THEY ALL RESEMBLE OTHER CARS IN SOME WAY OR ANOTHER
Once again, I love the oversized yet attractive and aggresive looking headlight and the sharp looking taillights.
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08-21-2009, 02:32 PM
#269
What Would Don Draper Do?
Very nice!
If you look at the exterior, it looks nothing like other cars out there right now.
There is no cars right now that has that kind of aggresive looking headlight, and taillights. Very original.
But, I am pretty sure some haters will say that the new Sonata copied other cars just because they are a Hyundai....
They will try so hard to find slight resemblance of other cars, and when they do, Hyundia automatically copied them. I wish these people would use the SAME standards when looking at OTHER cars too.
If you look at the exterior, it looks nothing like other cars out there right now.
There is no cars right now that has that kind of aggresive looking headlight, and taillights. Very original.
But, I am pretty sure some haters will say that the new Sonata copied other cars just because they are a Hyundai....
They will try so hard to find slight resemblance of other cars, and when they do, Hyundia automatically copied them. I wish these people would use the SAME standards when looking at OTHER cars too.
that said, i think it looks great.
but i can't agree with you if you say:
If you look at the exterior, it looks nothing like other cars out there right now.
There is no cars right now that has that kind of aggresive looking headlight, and taillights.
There is no cars right now that has that kind of aggresive looking headlight, and taillights.
08-21-2009, 03:58 PM
#270
The sizzle in the Steak
It's one of a kind. 100% Original.
08-21-2009, 04:16 PM
#271
I drive a Subata.
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Go Koreans! 
08-21-2009, 04:35 PM
#272
The sizzle in the Steak
^^ maybe you found your next car? :wink:
08-21-2009, 05:09 PM
#273
What Would Don Draper Do?
08-21-2009, 06:04 PM
#275
The sizzle in the Steak
08-21-2009, 06:27 PM
#276
I shoot people
see, if I was going to go rob a bank, I'd totally use this as a getaway car... cuz it'd probably confuse the fuck out of the cops
08-21-2009, 06:32 PM
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Its partially due to the Korean War in which U.S. help us out by defeating the communist side. White ignorant Americans still think that South Korea is same as Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, etc.
The only Koreans that getting love is the Korean girls, in which all White guys who has Asian-fetish fever loves anything thats an Asian hole. Just look how the American media portrays us Asians, Asian women are always sexual partner to White guys while, Asian men are either Nerdy asexual guy or Kung Fu master who saves the world but gets to go home with no girl.
VIVA MEXICO, 5-0..!!!!!
08-21-2009, 06:36 PM
#278
I drive a Subata.
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Yea, thats true, Koreans dont get respect in U.S.
Its partially due to the Korean War in which U.S. help us out by defeating the communist side. White ignorant Americans still think that South Korea is same as Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, etc.
The only Koreans that getting love is the Korean girls, in which all White guys who has Asian-fetish fever loves anything thats an Asian hole. Just look how the American media portrays us Asians, Asian women are always sexual partner to White guys while, Asian men are either Nerdy asexual guy or Kung Fu master who saves the world but gets to go home with no girl.
VIVA MEXICO, 5-0..!!!!!
Its partially due to the Korean War in which U.S. help us out by defeating the communist side. White ignorant Americans still think that South Korea is same as Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, etc.
The only Koreans that getting love is the Korean girls, in which all White guys who has Asian-fetish fever loves anything thats an Asian hole. Just look how the American media portrays us Asians, Asian women are always sexual partner to White guys while, Asian men are either Nerdy asexual guy or Kung Fu master who saves the world but gets to go home with no girl.
VIVA MEXICO, 5-0..!!!!!
08-21-2009, 06:42 PM
#279
The sizzle in the Steak
I think another 
is in order here.
is in order here.
08-21-2009, 08:55 PM
#280
What Would Don Draper Do?
Yea, thats true, Koreans dont get respect in U.S.
Its partially due to the Korean War in which U.S. help us out by defeating the communist side. White ignorant Americans still think that South Korea is same as Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, etc.
The only Koreans that getting love is the Korean girls, in which all White guys who has Asian-fetish fever loves anything thats an Asian hole. Just look how the American media portrays us Asians, Asian women are always sexual partner to White guys while, Asian men are either Nerdy asexual guy or Kung Fu master who saves the world but gets to go home with no girl.
VIVA MEXICO, 5-0..!!!!!
Its partially due to the Korean War in which U.S. help us out by defeating the communist side. White ignorant Americans still think that South Korea is same as Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, etc.
The only Koreans that getting love is the Korean girls, in which all White guys who has Asian-fetish fever loves anything thats an Asian hole. Just look how the American media portrays us Asians, Asian women are always sexual partner to White guys while, Asian men are either Nerdy asexual guy or Kung Fu master who saves the world but gets to go home with no girl.
VIVA MEXICO, 5-0..!!!!!
i tolerated your korean-this, korean-that nonsense when it came to cars.
i'm a korean-american too. but when you gotta start going pro-mexico and anti-usa soccer, then
