Great comfort, legroom & charging speed, but poor quality leatherette
I have owned this car for about 2 1/2 years, and overall I love it. It's beautiful, comfortable, spacious, charges quickly, has incredible back seat legroom and a pretty good interface for entertainment and info (although it's a little slow and unresponsive during the first couple of minutes after starting the car and some features take time to figure out), and it does have a decent number of physical buttons and dials to simplify access to common climate and music functions (so you don't have to do everything through the touchscreen). The acceleration in my Limited AWD version is incredible, but my passengers often got nauseous, so I started driving in Eco (slowest, most efficient, but still quick) mode most of the time. My biggest disappointment has been the upholstery. The Limited trim comes with their leatherette material called H-Tex, and within just the first 6 months of driving the car (at only 3,000 miles), the outer edge of the driver's seat started falling apart, leaving visible holes along the outer seam. Hyundai refused to fix it and claimed it fell under the category of "normal wear and tear". Upholstery falling apart like that within the first year of extremely low mileage driving seems highly abnormal to me (and certainly unexpected and frustrating). On the plus side, the automatic blind spot video display that pops up on the dashboard as soon as you engage either turn signal exceeded my expectations. It's really useful, high resolution and displayed in a convenient location on either side of the instrument panel (corresponding to whichever turn signal has been activated), which makes changing lanes much safer and easier. One final negative. Even though the car is incredibly smooth and quiet on smooth, well paved roads, you hear and feel a lot of vibration noise on rough, imperfect or bumpy roads. Lastly, even though the car has a nice "approach unlock" feature that automatically unlocks the doors when you walk up to the car door with the key fob, it lacks the ability to automatically lock the doors once you complete a drive and exit the car.
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