The Hyundai Palisade looks and feels like a luxury SUV
The Palisade achieves what every $50,000 SUV aims to do: feel like a far more expensive one. Last year, Hyundai gave the Palisade a sleek facelift (to help distinguish it from its Kia Telluride cousin), taking the front end from “bulldog genetically engineered with the eyes of a spider” to “stately and distinctive.”
The top-of-the-line Calligraphy interior features a clean layout and comfortable Nappa leather seats. The Palisade has more physical buttons than the minimalist, screen-dependent Range Rover … but I’d argue that’s a feature, not a bug.
You don’t get all the customization choices with the Palisade that you can find on a Range Rover. But Hyundai is now offering the Calligraphy Night trim, for a more modern, dark-chrome-heavy look.
The Hyundai Palisade delivers a luxurious ride
The Palisade can’t match the Range Rover’s powertrain lineup of turbocharged inline-sixes, twin-turbo V8s and plug-in hybrids; a mediocre 3.8-liter naturally-aspirated V6 is the only option. The Palisade can’t match the Rangie’s air suspension and super-swanky dribing tech, either. But in everyday driving, the Palisade feels remarkably smooth and quiet. It’s reasonably quick and agile, as well.
Hyundai didn’t build the Palisade for going max attack on a California canyon road. It’s a vehicle for serene cruising. Indeed, one could say the same thing about the Range Rover, which can start to show its limitations when pushed hard.
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