Hyundai Sonata Facelift Rendering – Korean Car Blog

We already have talked about 8th generation Hyundai Sonata income circumstance and we previously spied the initial prototype. It is expected that the refreshed product will be introduced on April 2023 and right now our colleagues at Kolesa produced this rendering. Ideas?

What we know so considerably?

The 8th era Sonata (DN8) is struggling of sluggish profits. So considerably that Hyundai by now closed the Asan Plant line exactly where it is establish two periods this calendar year. While the Grandeur is offering like very hot cakes (also designed in Asan) the Sonata previously losed its throne for the to start with time considering the fact that its start.

The Grandeur is obtaining its very best minute, surpassing 10,000 units in a regular monthly basis, as properly as named as ‘Best Offering Car’, Hyundai’s luxuriest sedan has accounted a full of 136,384 models from 386,095 units from January to June 2021.

Hyundai launched an up to date 2021 Model 12 months in April, characterized by an expanded application of the style of the present Sonata Sensuous 1.6 Turbo (Sonata Sport) to the common gasoline 2. model (they killed the fishy face). Depite this adjustments, the Sonata has not managed to overcome.

In the listing, you can see models that are currently launched like PDeN PE (PD is i30, “e” is Europe, “N” is from N model and “PE” usually means Product Enhancement) or IK F/L SB which is the G70 Capturing Brake, but there are models like the GN7 (New Grandeur), SU2i which is the Location for the indian current market or even the Elantra facelift or CN7 PE is already mentioned.

On the other hand, the model has been battling and suffering of sluggish profits recording only 4,053 units in June as effectively as a 31% decrease in comparison to the final year. The Sonata is bear the achievement of both equally Grandeur and Kia K5 (who bought pretty much double in June) who have surpassed Sonata for the to start with time ever.

Within Hyundai, the DN8 (internal codename) was admitted as a failed model, so then the enterprise resolved to skip a mid-cycle facelift in favor of a whole modify design that will get there in 2023. Compared with 1st informations that reported Hyundai will kill the Sonata and location IONIQ 6 rather equally styles will coexist.

So that is why Hyundai resolved to apply the same program that worked for the Grandeur, as an alternative of a facelift, launch a whole change product but primarily based in the very same system and a completely new style and design. This car has previously a codename “DN9”. And as you can see in the photo at the major, that DN9a usually means the North American variation.