2.0 Premium SE

Good vehicle, but annoyed with Hyundai

I've owned this vehicle for nearly 3 months, and driven 4000 miles on all types of road. Fuel economy is well below the manufacturers figure, but I'm hoping that will improve during warmer weather, and once the engine has been properly run in. The car is extremely quiet, has good performance, and is superb on motorways. Lots of kit is provided in this top spec model, but there are some omissions which I find annoying. Firstly, Hyundai have decided to remove voice recognition from the higher spec Tucson's in the UK, although US customers still seem to be offered it as standard. This function was supposed to have been substituted with Apple Car Play and Google Android, and these were widely advertised as being available in the car's pre-launch publicity. So, I was not happy to discover that Hyundai now have no plans to roll out these applications to UK customers, even though they are busy doing so for US and Australian owners. I think that's very poor indeed, and to make it worse, despite contacting Hyundai several times, no explanation or reason for this decision has been forthcoming. A bad deal for us here in the UK, and one that I know other owners are unhappy about too. Other issues are the lack of memory function for the driver's seat, which is inconvenient when there are two drivers'of substantially different heights, and not really acceptable on a car costing nearly £34k. The stereo is a disappointing 6 speaker system, with no sub woofer, and no external amp. This is standard across the entire UK Tucson range, and owners are not even given the option of an upgrade for top end models. The US pay less, and get an 8 speaker Infiniti system which is much much better. Other than that it is all good, and I would recommend considering the Tucson if you are in the market for a good SUV. However, I do get the feeling that we are being short changed here in the UK. We pay considerably more, and seem to end up with less.

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