The Parc of Hyundai vehicles in United Kingdom attained a value of 928,497.07 Units in 2020
The indicator recorded a historical growth (CAGR) of 4.01% between 2017 to 2020, and is expected to grow by...
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Company Summary
Hyundai Motor Co (Hyundai) is an automobile company. The company designs develop, manufactures, and distributes motor vehicles, trucks, buses, special utility vehicles and chassis, trains, and automotive parts. Hyundai also provides vehicle financing and credit card processing services. Hyundai markets products under Veloster, Venue, Azera, i40, Elantra, Tucson, Accent, Kona, Creta, Sonata, i20, ix20, and other brands. It has operations across North America, Asia Pacific, Europe, and other regions. The company has manufacturing facilities in the US, Russia, China, Korea, Turkey, India, Czech Republic, and Brazil. Hyundai is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
Hyundai Kona - Benchmarked Connectivity Features
Display
The display has a bland design. That’s not to be unkind. There’s just nothing particularly remarkable about it. The physical switchgear frames the 8” capacitive touchscreen. It is simple, easy-to-use with reasonably good responsiveness. It has swipe capability, but no pinch and zoom. Though leather gloves don’t work on the screen, there are no problems with woolen-clad fingers—though a heated steering wheel on the more premium trims will render this particular observation extraneous. Unsurprisingly, there was no gesture control.
Switchgear
The Hyundai KONA sports a compact area for the central switchgear, but it’s well laid-out and highly accessible. There are a good number of ports, but they are all upfront, making it less convenient for charging devices for backseat passengers. The basic nature of the KONA’s design means there is little proprietary functionality, such as driver profiling and personalization.
Audio
The KONA’s system comes with all the usual suspects; FM, AM, DAB, and Bluetooth pairing capabilities, for audio choices. Though the Premium SE and GT models carry Krell’s premium sound system with an external amplifier, there isn’t an enhanced DSP or a way of tuning the sound output to a concert, sound stage, studio, or room profile, as in the Volvo, simply. The user can manually adjust the bass, treble, and mid-levels, as found in other fewer premium models.
Networking
The Blue Link Connect system in the KONA relies heavily on a tethered device for its networking capability. This is particularly notable with voice control, which will only work with Siri or OK Google, initiated from the button on the steering wheel controls. Hyundai is clearly hedging its bets that CarPlay and Auto will dominate and so has focused on providing the most responsive integration of these mirroring apps.
Navigation
Drivers who are confident of their routes won’t use the system for all journeys and data will not be picked up to feed into the machine-learning algorithms needed for self-driving. The navigation did score slightly better on intuitive design, obtaining 3 out of 5, where good presentation, acceptable nesting, and a mixture of natural and unnatural user experience can be found. There were seven steps to set the navigation, which is towards the high end of our benchmarking, but by no means the worst. POIs are standard and the layout is similar to other models tested.
ADAS
Though there’s no 360-degree parking camera, the KONA does have a reverse-parking camera and parking sensors. The KONA has excellent lane keep-feedback through the steering wheel, which feels convincing. The cruise control is fairly smooth, but there was no indication of what speed the vehicle had been set to.
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