The new 2022 Hyundai Tucson compact crossover has made its official debut and will serve as a direct rival to the Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain when it goes on sale in the U.S. early next year.
The base engine for the 2022 Hyundai Tucson will be a naturally aspirated 2.5L four-cylinder producing 187 horsepower and 182 pound-feet of torque, which will be paired with an eight-speed automatic transmission and standard front-wheel-drive. A hybrid model will also be available early on, which will pair a turbocharged 1.6L four-cylinder with a small electric motor and CVT. This model will be good for 226 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque. A plug-in hybrid will be available eventually as well, however the Korean automaker did have many details on the PHEV at this time.
Hyundai’s HTRAC all-wheel-drive system will also be offered on the 2022 Tucson. The all-wheel-drive system will now come with configurable traction control modes for Mud, Sand and Snow, which join specific drive modes for Eco, Comfort, Smart and Sport. A long list of active safety features will be available on the compact crossover, too, including Hyundai’s semi-autonomous Highway Driving Assist system with pedestrian detection, Remote Smart Parking, Advanced Smart Cruise Control and many, many more.
The 2022 Hyundai Tucson will look to attract new buyers to the brand with its contemporary styling. The crossover incorporates a new “parametric” front grille, as Hyundai calls it, which is embedded with LED daytime running lights that are invisible when not fully illuminated. These seamlessly integrate the DRLs into the front end, making the vehicle appear as if it has no headlights at all when they are turned off. The automaker says the design theme continues with the full-width rear lightbar out back, which incorporates “half-hidden triangular shapes that are only visible when lit.”
The interior of the crossover is described as “high-tech, fresh and exciting,” with a vertically integrated dual-screen infotainment system sitting front and center. This infotainment array comprises two 10.25-inch digital display screens and will come with standard Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Standard Tucson models will come with an eight-inch single color touchscreen display, which will also come standard with CarPlay and Android Auto. Both systems also support the Hyundai Digital Key app, allowing the driver to use their smartphone to unlock and start the vehicle.
The 2022 Hyundai Tucson will go on sale in Korea in September as a 2021 model. In the U.S., the crossover will go on sale in the first-half of 2021 and will initially be marketed as a 2022 model year vehicle. With Hyundai having sold more than 7 million Tucson models to date. General Motors will be keeping a close eye on the consumer reaction to this latest model when developing the next-generation Equinox and Terrain.
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With every new car reveal GM just keeps falling further back on the following….Interior Materials, Interior tech, front and rear light Technology, and waaaaaaaay behind in Gauge Cluster Tech.
GM needs to leapfrog their own cars by three Generations to catch up in the future.
Agree
GM is too slow. Lyriq is awesome, but again it must be here 2day, not in 2023 lol
Leave the trolling and return to reality.
US Sales 2019
Equinox – 346 048
Tucson – 137 381
Most of us aren’t on this site because we’re fans of sales numbers.
What about Korean sales (since Hyundai is from there) or world sales?
Oh don’t let them stop now, I’d love to hear this vehicle is better than what GM ever made by the Korean assassins……
On a global basis the Tucson is the sales leader. So yes, stop the uninformed trolling.
This says one thing, Chevrolet has leapfrogged their competition and is being recognized as the standard that others are trying to aspire to.
Well, the Equinox twins are due for a full refresh soon. Let’s see how GM responds. Put the same energy from the C8/Escalade/Hummer into the next gen and we will have a winner.
That design needs to go back to the drawing board. There are still a few square inches of sheet metal that don’t have a fold or crease in them. But seriously, that design is going to age very fast.
I agree it’s a bit over stylized and probably won’t age well. Not exactly my taste.
I give Hyundai credit for pushing the envelope creating something that sticks out in a crowded field of small utes – no one can say this is cookie-cutter design.
The interior is amazing especially at this price-point, GM and Ford need to take note.
Equinox is a bread and butter vehicle for GM. Im sure the next gen or refresh will easily look better on the exterior than this, interior should be as good.
@Cadillac Matt
That is a lot of confidence in GM right there. When have they ever had as good of an interior on a mainstream vehicle as the competition? HAHA
Aztec 2
Are you GM guys kidding me ?
How is this vehicle not better than the Equinox in every way.
And sure, I agree, the Equinox will be refreshed soon, but look, the Cadillac CT5 just received the OPTION to ORDER a digital dash. You really think GM is prepared to spend the money on an interior of this quality on the low cost Equinox !
GMs truck was their bread and butter, and you cant get a screen in those like this for $80,000.00.
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Quit telling GM their products are ” Good Enough ”
GM is behind, far behind !!
I also agree, GM sells more Equinox in the USA than this vehicle TODAY, but what about 3 years from now ?
I like the front, I like the rear, I hate the sides, and like the interior !
Styling aside I would hope that it’s better since it’s brand new. It should be better than the current competition.
Holy crap… 😒 What is it with the Koreans and their loud designs these days? It’s like they think the more garish their cars look, the better they are. There does come a point where enough weirdness is enough. Even the Blazer looks grounded and subtle compared to this. I have no interest in driving a Star Wars droid to work everyday.
I’m not sure on the rest, but the dash from that pic looks very simple in design and so much better than most on the market. Compare that with the CRV, Rav4, Terrain and many more and this blows them away. I do like the dash in the Chevy, but this may have the best yet. And look. No ugly screen jetting up from the dash!
I look at this center stack and see a smooth screen and dozens of similar looking buttons that are most likely touch sensitive; no knobs. It swill be very distracting to do anything with this screen/controls layout. Also, the exterior styling is excessive and garish. It looks like the designers decided that no surface on the outside skin should be without a crease/fold/scallop somewhere! What will it smell like inside since it will likely be made with some of the same cheap plastics that are typical of South Korean cars, even those that have GM badges but are built in Korea? Consider the smell in the short lived Pontiac G3!
Is no one going to address the fact that this looks like the Mercedes EV cuv/suv
Thanks, I hate it
imo, as a Chevy Dealer from 1980 to 2010 I battled the imports for decades only to watch my products get beaten to the punch time and time again, as much as I root for GM it like watching a sibling mess up in life time and time again, no one wants to give up, but the Majority of Americans but Imports and it continues to grow, especially with GM retreating to SUVs and Pickups. I watched as we gave up on Mini-Vans, Sport Compacts, Sedans odf all sizes, and Luxury. Heck if someone Gave me a Cadillac Franchise, I’d say NO, why would I want to lose money. If the Gave me a BMW, Land Rover, Mercedes, Franchise, heck yeah, you’d make money hand over fist
Look at Automotive News ranking of most valuable Franchises, that’s the best determination of a brands value, what someone would pay millions for… Can’t find GM in the top Ten, pathetic!
Look out Equinox, GM Designers certainly need to step up, we can’t survive on Corvette alone
You “hit the nail” right on the head……
I can remember the “invasion” when I was in high school…what is this thing they call a Datsun? They all had “cheap” looking interiors. Wow, 50 years later, it is GM and Ford, who missed the bold design boat.
If cheap outdated looking plastic interiors become a JD Powers award, GM would dominate, followed by Ford.
Tiger Tom,
What is your opinion then on why this happened ?
I see nothing changing, and GM should be on high alert, it is only getting worse.
FCA is now a foreign company like the imports, yet they are very good at pulling the American heart strings of the Dodge brothers, Jeep, and Hemi ! For them, creating RAM, allows a foreign automaker to sell trucks in the USA, and they are doing do in a huge way. When whatever FCA is now, gets that full-sized Jeep on the market, there goes another HUGE chunk of GM cash ! That RAM loyalty is high, one of the highest in the world, even just taking a few a year, chances are they have them for life !
So the way I see it, it was the dealer not screaming at GM loud enough, that their vehicles and service after the sale, was no longer ” Good Enough ”
Yet I see the root of all this, as the same root of most legacy US companies, and our political system, MONEY, GREED !
As a GM dealer, you now had the same ” system ” set up as GM. Boss/owner, needed to make a living from nothing but a money investment. Someone answering the phone, they did nothing to add value. Now days you have a service manager, and a service advisor, and a service tech, only ONE of these people adds value ! Not to mention the overhead, retirement, benefits, ETC.
When the competition moved it, I saw it as a GOAL to succeed, like it used to be in the USA ! The foreign owners of these companies CARED, it was in a lot of ways, THEIR company !
They listened to the people who took a chance and bought their new products, CUSTOMERS.
They fixed the problems with their vehicles as they were having them, CUSTOMER SERVICE.
And soon learned that by building a higher quality vehicle to start with, you would eliminate most of the cost down the road !
As the foreign competition was on mission, GM just kept making vehicles cheaper and cheaper, some was do to the money guy ( bean counter ) yet in the USA we were, at that time, turning out engineering managers who seemed to relish in the thought of overdesigning, and by doing so they could cheapen up the product even more. Let me tell you a secret, cheaper is very, very, very, few times better or even equal !
And so here we are today, the people running GM are STILL long time GM lifelong family GM people ! Sons and daughters of the OLD GM, They simply can not, and do not see the forest through the trees !! We STILL have the good old Chevy V8 in almost everything decent, yet cant seem to make ONE engine consistent other than that.
And transmissions, WOW – just WOW !! Talk about a customer screw job – WOW !!!
This thing needs to be blown up – POOF !
Started over with a 35 year old CEO who wants to become someone !
Someone who understands what the competition is doing, and can do !
Like with the Hummer and the Lyriq, GM thinks, we have something here.
The competition is saying, you have nothing and if you do, we will wait to see and crush you one year after, they just move that much faster than GM. That is a business system structure failure from the get go.
One more thing, on the dealer VS GM. As I grew up, my family was all GM. I do everything myself, except what GM does not allow me to do ( new module coding, deleting under warranty, etc.) 52 now, but when younger, my family was close with people who owned the dealership and worked there. About 1980 something. As the dealer sold or was closed by GM and bought out, in the GM bankruptcy things changed, and not for the better ! I bought ALL original GM parts from that dealer, as I did my own work. No problem what so ever. Today I no longer live close to that dealer yet have tried with my local dealer today. And yet again still just do not get it. I can order a GM part, online, from a dealer across the country, CHEAPER, with shipping included, than I can get it from my dealer 2 miles away ! and I have explained this !
HOW ?
Again, these are systematic GM problems.
Franchise laws, I would bet, that say the dealer can charge whatever they want ! How will that continue to work for either ? The dealer is losing sales, yet GM is still selling !
Stuff just no longer makes sense.
And by the way, out of all of us family members, most no longer drive GM !
And with this last onslaught of $hit from GM, I am now headed that way also !
I find myself doing double takes thinking I see an Audi SUV, only to see a Hyundai.
Everyone to their own opinion. But I don’t see any Audi in it at all.
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