Reviewed by John Simister
Hyundai, the Korean car maker, wants to compete on level terms with European and Japanese opposition. The critics agree that with every recent new model, Hyundai has done exactly that; the cars are well designed, well made, good to drive and inexpensive to buy. What has been missing, though, is a properly competitive large car, a Mondeo rival if you will. That part of the range has been represented by the Sonata, which was old-school Hyundai, not very good and doomed to a twilight role in murky minicab-dom.
