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There’s more driver assistance, if you want it: On the top two trim lines, Hyundai has Level 2 self-driving called Highway Drive Assist. Hyundai Blind Spot View Monitor (BVM) shows what’s in your blind spot (also beeps, flashes). This is every bit of driver assistance tech you’d expect on any 2020 car, even high-end cars. (SEL, SEL Plus, Limited:) Blind-spot detection (“blind-spot collision avoidance assist”) / rear cross-traffic alert (“rear cross-traffic avoidance assist”).Dynamic backing guidelines for the (federally mandated) rearview camera.Driver drowsiness detection (“driver attention warning”).Lane centering assist (“lane follow assist”).Lane keep assist (steers the car back from the lane edges).Auto high beams (“automatic high beam assist”).
Forward collision warning, auto emergency braking, pedestrian detection (“forward collision-avoidance assist with pedestrian detection”).
Stop and go adaptive cruise control (Hyundai’s term: “advanced smart cruise control”).Only once you have a) seen how good-looking the 2020 model is, b) gone through the list of standard safety technology and c) driven the Sonata can you fully understand the very neat trick Hyundai pulled off.įor starters, the following Hyundai SmartSense driver-assist features below are standard on all four trim lines of every 2020 Sonata (and the last is standard on the trims above SE that account for 85-90 percent of Sonata sales): In yet another Year of the SUV, where seven in 10 sales go to SUVs, crossovers, and pickups, the best new vehicle is a sedan: the 2020, eighth-generation Hyundai Sonata. Seen-it-all journos give the 2020 Car of the Year Hyundai Sonata the thumbs up. Here’s the 2020 ExtremeTech Car of the Year and, in alphabetical order, the rest of the top 10. Plus, it should be fun to drive on top of the technical merits. Our preference is the car be available to buyers by the beginning of the year, not vaporware. As for criteria, we have no price cap some pubs say no more than 2.5X the average new car price, which average price in November was $38,400 according to KBB.com, excluding incentives, but we’d expect a lot more technology in a $100,000 car than a $25,000 car. Seventy percent of cars sold each year are previously owned.
What about us? At ExtremeTech, we’re looking for a highly competent car that is forward-looking on technology, safety, and driver assists: a car that has still-desirable features and tech when it comes off lease and goes to the next owner at three our four years of age. But in the hands of others, that mindset also gave us the Chevrolet Vega, the Mustang II, the Chevrolet Citation, and the second coming of the Ford Thunderbird in 2002. You can call on your must-be-Motown roots (Flash: Corvette Wins Car of the Year Again), especially this year when the Corvette is a legit choice. You can award the vehicle that drives over boulders (Flash: Jeep Gladiator Honored). How do you pick the right Car of the Year when so many cars are so good? You can choose the car you’d drive if you had Wall Street money (Flash: Porsche 911 Named Car of the Year Again).