Drives well, but some awful design features
The Tucson drives well, and gets good mileage with its hybrid engine. However, it feels quite cramped inside, since the interior is poorly designed. The overlarge console in the middle of the front seats is so big even a small person keeps hitting it with their elbows as they drive, and it is so poorly designed things keep getting lost under the permanent large overhang. The shoulder seat belts are placed so high and so far back that a smallish person can hardly reach them. The amount of unnecessary “safety” technology is mind-boggling — huge overkill—to the point that we call it a nanny car. Some of it apparently cannot be turned off, but that is hard to tell even with the help of a person at the dealership. The ridiculous amount of unnecessary technology options leads one to believe they let loose a bunch of young programmers and told them to come up with any idea they could and program it in. They all need to be taught the adage “Just because you can do it, doesn’t mean you should!” And, you should have the car test-driven by seniors of all sizes. Finally, the idea that a broken headlight cover (a $100 dollar item at most) costs $2, 400 is absolutely obscene, because no one can repair it themselves, and the garage is required to take off the entire front bumper because of the computer electronics that are buried there! This is the worst design mistake of all! Don’t bury electronics in fenders that are easily dented, torn off, etc. My father was an engineer for Chevy for his entire career, and he would have died laughing at the stupidity of this choice. You can do better!