The Hyundai Sonata is the Korean automaker’s flagship family car, slotting into the hotly contested mid-size sedan category. Now in its seventh generation, the Sonata embodies the best of what Hyundai has to offer the average family car shopper. It boasts a rich feature set, a premium look and feel, and the sort of classic, elegant styling that has historically been reserved for much more expensive automobiles.
The seventh-generation Hyundai Sonata is all-new for 2020, moving the goalpost forward with its most impressive suite of standard safety and driver-assist technologies yet. It boasts a sleek new exterior design with a fastback silhouette. The architecture underpinning the 2020 Sonata is brand-new, too, as is one of its two U.S.-market engine options: a naturally-aspirated 2.5L four-cylinder. (The other option is Hyundai’s stalwart 1.6L turbo four-cylinder.)
As Hyundai continues its slow-but-steady march upmarket, the all-new Sonata exemplifies everything the Korean automaker has learned so far about building quality, high-value automobiles to compete on a global stage. Previous generations of the model range have played to the automaker’s strengths, offering desirable, choice content and a quasi-premium look and feel at an uncharacteristically low price point. This strategy has made the Sonata an appealing choice for the budget-minded buyer who still wants all the latest gizmos.
The all-new, 2020 Hyundai Sonata made its North American debut at the 2019 New York International Auto Show. For that market, the car is built at the company’s Montgomery, Alabama manufacturing plant.