2011 Hyundai Sonata Denounced for U.S. Marketplace
Hyundai has denounced the US-spec 2011 Sonata at a Los Angeles Automobile Show.
Wearing a company’s neat “fluidic sculpture pattern,” a Sonata will try to take upon rivals such as the Toyota Camry, a Honda Settle, a Nissan Altima, a Ford Alloy, as well as a Chevrolet Malibu. To do this successfully, Hyundai gave a Sonata some-more interior room, the incomparable case, the higher power-to-weight comparativemeasure, and the tighter branch diameter than all a aforementioned competitors.
During launch, a Sonata will be equipped with a 2.4-liter four-cylinder motor-fuel engine which produces 198 horsepower as well as 184 lb-ft of torque. When continuous to the six-speed primer transmission, a Sonata achieves an estimated fuel managetobuy rating of 23 mpg city/34 mpg highway A discretionary six-speed involuntary boosts the rating to 23 mpg city/35 mpg highway). In 2010, Hyundai will suggest the 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine as well as the 2.4-liter Hybrid Blue Expostulate model.
Whilst a association didn’t release equipment information, they settled the Sonata will be available with 4 opposite audio systems. THE six-speaker AM/FM/XM/CD/MP3 audio complement will be customary upon a Sonata GLS and SE, whilst a Dimension premium receptivetoadvice complement (with touch-screen navigation, the subwoofer, and outmost amplifier) will be optional. A range-topping Sonata Singular comes with an AM/FM/XM/HD/MP3 6-disc CD-changer, while an Forever receptivetoadvice complement (with navigation as well as the 400-watt external amplifier) will be optional.
If song isn’t your thing, Hyundai additionally offers the performance-oriented Sonata SE. It features the sport-tuned cessation, stiffer springs, incomparable stabilizer bars (resulting in the 20 percent increase in roll rigidity, unique dampers, monotube back shocks, as well as low form 18-inch wheels.
Demeanour for some-more report to be expelled when a Sonata goes upon sale in Jan 2010.
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Source: Hyundai
Press Release(Click to expand)
Hyundai currently introduced the all-new 2011 Sonata during a Los Angeles Automobile Show. This outlines a North American entrance of the ultimate chronicle of a renouned midsize sedan, introducing Hyundai’s “Fluidic Sculpture” pattern language as well as an all four-cylinder engine lineup to a U.S. market.
HIGHLIGHTS FOR 2011 SONATA
All-new sixth era Sonata midsize sedan
Fluidic Cutwithachisel design
All four-cylinder engine lineup
Launches with brandnew Theta II 2.4-liter gasoline approach injection (GDI) engine as well as in-house six-speed involuntary transmission
Category heading fuel managetobuy of 23 mpg city/35 mpg highway*
Category heading 198 horsepower customary (200 horsepower upon SE trim*)
2.0-liter Theta II turbocharged GDI four-cylinder engine as well as Hybrid Blue Expostulate models to entrance by 2010 year-end
Prolongation starts during Hyundai Engine Production Alabama in Dec with sell sales commencement in January
XM Heavenlybody Radio™, real-time XM NavTraffic, XM Data Services, HD Airwave Technology™, Bluetooth, Touch-screen navigation as well as iPod/USB inputs
Sonata is a second vehicle in Hyundai’s 24/7 version 2.0 product beginning 7 brandnew models in a subsequent TWENTY-FOUR months) following upon a heels of a all-new Tucson. Production of Sonata will proceed later this month during Hyundai’s U.S. plant in Alabama with retail sales commencement in January.
A 2011 Sonata represents the complicated proceed to a traditional midsize sedan segment by regulating usually modernized four-cylinder engines, romantic pattern as well as oppulance facilities offering with Hyundai’s clever worth proposition. The 2011 Sonata poses alittle appealing questions:
Because can’t the intelligent, plain sedan additionally have complicated, neat, worldly style?
Because compensate so much to get the ambience of luxury?
Why can’t an fit four-cylinder engine give V6 power?
FLUIDIC CUTWITHACHISEL DESIGN LANGUAGE
Commencement with the 2011 Sonata as well as 2010 Tucson projects, Hyundai designers set to work about 3 as well as half years ago upon Fluidic Cutwithachisel. Fluidic Cutwithachisel is a unchanging, cohesive design denunciation which will sputter by a complete Hyundai showroom. In building a primary Sonata sketches, Hyundai designers deliberate a interplay of healthy, liquid elements with some-more firm surfaces and structures to emanate a illusion of consistent suit. Desirous by nature, Fluidic Sculpture injects lackofsimplicity as well as energetic angles into a figure of the car as well as now serves as a core of Hyundai’s destiny pattern identity.
A exterior of a all-new Sonata is long, light as well as low. A high beltline allows for the prolonged, neat roofline accented by the third window. THE monoform side form includes issuing lines highlighted by the Hyundai signature chrome accent which spans a length of a automobile. Routinely, this sort of trim is only found around the windows. On a brandnew Sonata, this trim extends out from a headlamps, juts up along the hood as well as by the beltline. A face is confidant with the vast absolute chrome grille as well as headlamps which integrate accurate details. A position is completed by SIXTEEN-, SEVENTEEN- or 18-inch multi-spoke wheels.
A worldly look continues inside where Hyundai has combined an upscale ambiance interjection to a flow-through core console and instrument row. These issuing surfaces element a exterior design and hang around a motorist as well as passengers.
HYUNDAI WRAPPING EFFICIENCY
A neat pattern, total with Hyundai’s imagination in interior wrapping, has produced an interior which delivers class-leading joy, functionality as well as practicality. THE neat roofline typically compromises headroom as well as interior volume though, during 120.2 cubic feet, a Sonata has a many interior volume of the pass competitors. It is so atmospheric, Sonata continues to be personal by a Environmental Insurance Group (EPA) as the Vast automobile, indeed the “class above” Camry, Altima, Alloy as well as Malibu (all have been categorized as Midsize cars). Even in case room, a Sonata shines. Sonata’s 16.4 cu. ft. of trunk space gives it a 9.3 percent advantage over a Camry, as well as the 17.1 percent value over Accord.
2011 Sonata
2010 Camry
2010 Accord
2010 Altima
2010 Fusion
2010 Malibu
Newcomer volume (cu. ft.)
103.8
101.4
106.0
100.7
100.3
97.7
Load volume
(cu. ft.)
16.4
15.0
14.0
15.3
16.5
15.1
Sum interior volume (cu. ft.)
120.2
116.4
120.0
116.0
116.8
112.8
EPA size classification
Large
Midsize
Large
Midsize
Midsize
Midsize
MODERNIZED POWERTRA
INS
A brandnew Sonata will launch with Hyundai’s brandnew Theta II GDI 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine with a Gasoline Direct-Injection (GDI) fuel smoothness complement, that contributes to softened fuel potency as well as reduce emissions. Sonata is a initial midsize sedan to adopt GDI record as customary apparatus in the ofcourse aspirated powertain. This shorter, more approach trail of fuel smoothness, allows for greater control of the fuel mixture at a best impulse, toillustrate mending potency. A fuel is injected by the camshaft-driven, high pressure siphon which operates during pressures up to 2,175 psi. Direct injection additionally utilizes the aloft than normal 11.3:1 application comparativemeasure for increasing energy. A pistons are “dished” to enlarge combustion potency in a cylinder. This powerplant will broach best-in-class fuel managetobuy, best-in-class four-cylinder horsepower as well as best-in-class torque.
Sonata delivers an impressive TWENTY-THREE mpg city/35 mpg highway estimated fuel managetobuy rating* with a accessible six-speed automatic delivery with SHIFTRONIC. (When versed with a six-speed primer, the Sonata achieves an estimated 23 mpg city/34 mpg mainroad fuel economy rating). A rough horsepower and torque ratings for a Theta II GDI are 198 horsepower as well as 184 lb.-ft. of torque. In a SE trim which includes the customary twin empty, a engine delivers 200 horsepower. This high-tech, all-aluminum, 16-valve engine facilities Invariably Non-static Valve Timing (CVVT) upon both camshafts and the Non-static Initiation System (VIS) for improved engine breathing. THE chronicle of this engine additionally meets Partial 0 Glimmer Car (PZEV) standards.
2011 Sonata (est.)
2010 Camry
2010 Accord
2010 Altima
2010 Fusion
2010 Malibu
Engine
2.4L I4
2.5L I4
2.4L I4
2.5L I4
2.5L I4
2.4L I4
Horsepower
198 @ 6300
169 @ 6000
177 @ 6500
175 @ 5600
175 @ 6000
169 @ 6400
Specific outlay (HP/Liter)
82.5
67.6
73.8
70.0
70.0
70.4
Torque
184 @ 4250
167 @ 4100
161 @ 4300
180 @ 3900
172 @ 4500
160 @ 4500
Fuel managetobuy (A/T)
23/35
22/33
22/31
23/31
23/34
22/33
Subsequent year, Hyundai will supplement a 2.0-liter Theta II turbocharged GDI four-cylinder engine as well as the 2.4-liter Hybrid Blue Expostulate indication featuring Hyundai’s breakthrough lithium polymer battery container. Sum about these powertrains will be voiced during a 2010 Brandnew York Auto Uncover. Sonata’s innovative shred initial powertrain lineup is the pass motorist of Hyundai’s idea to be a many fuel-efficient automaker upon a planet.
SIX-SPEED INVOLUNTARY AND PRIMER TRANSMISSIONS
Hyundai’s commitment to creation a Sonata intensely fuel fit continues with the six-speed involuntary delivery with SHIFTRONIC primer control or a customary six-speed manual transaxle.
Hyundai’s all-new six-speed automatic A6MF2 transaxle helps a association meet the goals of mending fuel potency and shortening emissions. Shifts have been silky-smooth with an choice of primer control by a SHIFTRONIC feature.
Drivers can entrance a SHIFTRONIC underline by relocating a rigging selector into the apart embankment. Pushing the selector brazen or pulling it totherear will change a delivery up or down sequentially, adding to motorist control. The SE trim will additionally underline steering wheel-mounted paddle shifters. A clear LCD readout on a instrument row shows the rigging being used.
Written for cross engine applications in passenger cars as well as SUVs, a brandnew compress delivery puts Hyundai into an chosen category of automobile manufacturers who have written their own exclusive six-speed involuntary transmissions. A strength of the pattern is the singular blueprint that creates it smaller, some-more compact and lighter than any other six-speed transmission upon a marketplace today.
For a patron, a brandnew six-speed delivers the opening corner. In this application, it helps brings the 9 percent benefit in fuel managetobuy (35 mpg* versus 32 mpg). A gearbox has no dipstick since it is filled with involuntary delivery liquid which is good for a holdup of the car underneath normal usage conditions, thereby shortening upkeep costs.
Grown over the four-year duration, this brandnew six-speed involuntary is 26.4 pounds lighter than a five-speed it replaces. It additionally is 1.6 inches shorter as well as extremely easier, having 62 fewer tools, that is the pass to increased continuance, lighter weight as well as reduce cost.
When it comes to transmissions, some-more gears have been really better.The addition of the sixth rigging enables closer spacing in between rigging ratios onconditionthat the improved change of opening as well as fuel managetobuy whilst a far-reaching altogether rigging ratio helps broach clever acceleration.
A gearbox has three heavenly gearsets as well as a unique prosaic torque converter which shortens the unit’s altogether length by 0.47 inches. 4 pinion differentials urge continuance as well as serve minimize size.
An additional e.g. of engineering skill is found in a pattern of a hydraulic vigour control unit.Slight production deviations from asingle solenoid valve to a subsequent mostly times means oscillation in the hydraulic pressure and affect change pointing as well as quality. A delivery featured in a Sonata deftly integrates composition screws in a valves which capacitate any of a eight valves to be calibrated during a bureau. This underline ensures stable hydraulic pressure during any change indicate that facilitates the tall grade of pointing as well as control needed to deliver quick, smooth as well as precise shifts via a rpm range.
MOVABLE FLOAT, FLEXIBLE HANDLING
An advanced four-wheel eccentric cessation complement combines the movable float with accurate doing as well as steering response for Sonata GLS as well as Singular models. Sonata uses MacPherson strut front as well as multi-link back suspension systems with increasing transport for softened circle control anda smoother float. All 4 wheels have been tranquil by curl springs, fade-resistant gas-charged dampers as well as stabilizer bars. A cessation has been optimized to keep the car prosaic during corning as well as yield discerning turn-in response.The back cessation uses aluminum components to revoke weight as well as improve cessation opening. A GLS as well as Singular models additionally make use of modernized low-rolling insurgency tires to urge fuel managetobuy whilst progressing great float as well as doing performance.
The Sonata SE is an even some-more sparkling as well as peaceful partner for drivers who cite sportier float as well as handling dynamics. A sport-tuned cessation facilities stiffer springs as well as incomparable stabilizer bars, ensuing in the TWENTY percent increase in hurl
stiffness. Singular SE dampers, togetherwith monotube shocks in a back have been used to control a some-more assertive cessation. Low profile 18-inch tires round out a unique framework components of a Sonata SE.
All Sonatas have column-mounted, motor-driven electric energy steering that adjusts now to becoming different pushing conditions whilst mending fuel managetobuy over the required steering system. THE quick-ratio steering rack is used for frail feel upon turn-in. Sonata’s branch hole of 35.8 feet is better than Camry, Settle, Altima, Alloy as well as Malibu.
2011 Sonata
2010 Camry
2010 Accord
2010 Altima
2010 Fusion
2010 Malibu
Branch hole (feet)
35.8
36.1
37.7
36.1
37.5
40.4
UNIVERSE CATEGORY POWER-TO-WEIGHT RATIO
One of a module targets for a 2011 Sonata engineering group was world-class power-to-weight comparativemeasure. Power-to-weight comparativemeasure pays dividends in both opening as well as fuel economy.
Vehicle
2011 Sonata
2010 Camry
2010 Accord
2010 Altima
2010 Fusion
2010 Malibu
Quell weight (lbs.)
3199
3307
3269
3180
3342
3415
Horsepower
198
169
177
175
175
169
Power-to-weight ratio
16.2
19.6
18.5
18.2
19.1
20.2
Sonata is abounding in ultra-high-strength steel, heading to world-class physique acerbity. A 2011 Sonata is TWENTY-FIVE percent stiffer in torsion as well as NINETEEN percent stiffer in tortuous acerbity than the prototype, yet it is lighter than most midsize sedans, additionally charity some-more interior room.
This concentration upon power-to-weight ratio pays dividends across a house. The Sonata owes the capability to broach both clever opening as well as glorious fuel managetobuy in good partial to its impressive power-to-weight efficiency.
MODERNIZED CUSTOMARY RESERVE TECHNOLOGIES: PARTIAL OF HYUNDAI’S DECLARATION COMMITMENT
Sonata is built from a belligerent up with safety in mind, with the prohibited hammered ultra-high-strength steel body makeup, modernized airbag technology as well as Electronic Stability Control (ESC), delivering upon Hyundai’s joining to both active as well as pacifist reserve technology care. A before generation Sonata was a initial midsize sedan with customary ESC when it launched in Mar of 2005. ESC was not customary equipment upon Honda Settle until a 2008 indication year as well as the 2010 indication year for Toyota Camry. Once again each 2011 Sonata has lifesaving ESC as customary apparatus. This is critical since the National Mainroad Trade Reserve Administration (NHTSA) has reported which ESC formula in 35 percent fewer single-vehicle crashes as well as THIRTY percent fewer single-vehicle fatalities in newcomer cars.
A Sonata additionally facilities the state-of-the-art braking package. A package includes four-wheel front brakes as well as an Anti-Lock Braking Complement (ABS) togetherwith Brake Support, that provides limit braking force when the panic stop is detected, and Electronic Brake-force Placement (EBD) to automatically regulate the braking force to front and back axles formed upon a car loading conditions.
Sonata facilities six airbags—including twin front, front seat-mounted side-impact, and front as well as rear side screen airbags—along with active front-seat conduct restraints. A 2011 Hyundai Sonata is projected to consequence the NHTSA’s tip rating of five-stars for front as well as side impacts. Alternative pacifist reserve facilities embody shingle-style rear-seat head restraints for softened prominence, three-point seatbelts for all seating positions, front-seat seatbelt pretensioners and force limiters, as well as the rear-seat Lower Anchors and Tethers for Young kids FASTEN complement for kid seats.
2011 SONATA OFFERS 4 SINGULAR AUDIO ENVIRONMENTS
An AM/FM/XM/CD/MP3 audio complement with 6 speakers comes customary in a Sonata GLS as well as SE.
AM/FM/XM/CD/MP3 audio complement with touch-screen navigation as well as Dimension reward receptivetoadvice with subwoofer as well as outmost amplifier is discretionary upon a GLS as well as SE models.
A Singular indication comes customary with an AM/FM/XM/6-disc CD-changer/MP3 with HD Radio Technology as well as Dimension reward sound.
A discretionary AM/FM/XM/CD/MP3 audio system with touch-screen navigation which includes the 400-watt outmost amplifier complement upon a Singular comes with Forever audio.
DIMENSIONAUDIO SYSTEMS
Dimension is the brandnew branded audio complement created by Hyundai Mobis as well as facilities the Non-static Equalizer with normal, energetic as well as unison settings. A final generation equalizer supposing only one bound receptivetoadvice field. A brandnew Variable Equalizer, tuned by eminent audiophile Ken Pohlmann, is a duty for controlling the receptivetoadvice qualities sensed by listeners. For e.g., Pohlmann combined drum reply to the unison mode typically not found in alternative systems.
FOREVER AUDIO SYSTEM
Audio enthusiasts with even some-more perfectionist tastes will be impressed by the AM/FM/XM/CD/MP3 audio complement with touch-screen navigation which includes the 400-watt outmost amplifier, dedicated Twin Voice Curl (DVC) subwoofer, eight-channels as well as 9 Forever speakers accessible upon a Singular. Infinity as well as Hyundai engineers worked together during the early stages of development to confederate a speakers into Sonata’s interior. A group spent hundreds of hours fine-tuning a complement for the cabin’s singular acoustic attributes.
XM, HD RADIO RECORD, BLUETOOTH AS WELL AS TOUCH-SCREEN NAVIGATION BROACH UNEQUALED MIDSIZE SEDAN TECHNOLOGY CHOICES
2011 Sonata comes customary with three months of XM Heavenlybody Airwave, real-time XM NavTraffic as well as XM Data Services
Sonata additionally will be a initial renouned midsize sedan to suggest a distinctness of digital HD Airwave Technology from a factory
Initial car in the class to offer the Bluetooth hands-free phone system standard
Customary auxiliary iPod/USB inputs concede drivers to fully control as well as assign iPods withoutdelay from a conduct unit
Touch-screen navigation is accessible on all trim levels as well as includes the high-resolution shade. This complement provides brandnew facilities togetherwith Bluetooth streaming audio capacity. This easy-to-use unit can be controlled around 6.5-inch WVGA touchscreen or voice-activation by headliner-mounted microphone.
A complement facilities 8GB of peep mentalrecall as well as comes matched with the receptivetoadvice complement which plays compress discs, accesses digital song files around Bluetooth streaming audio or allows motorist as well as newcomer to entrance their personal listening devices through a iPod/USB/auxiliary inputs. Bluetooth audio wirelessly streams song from name mobile phones to a head section. Additionally, with the Bluetooth-enabled phone asingle can look up the internal grill as well as call for reservations prior to plotting the track. A XM Heavenlybody Airwave interface is additionally integrated into a navigation section as well as facilities channel logos, real-time NavTraffic and XM Interpretation services such as WX Heaven
lybody Continue, XM Stock Ticker as well as XM Sports Ticker. A complement is additionally updateable around a USB.
